Each season, PlayGround develops thirty-six original short plays by approximately two dozen emerging professional playwrights through our monthly Monday Night PlayGround series. Of these, seven plays and playwrights are selected each year to receive PlayGround's Emerging Playwright Award and full production of the short plays as part of The Best of PlayGround festival, running for four weeks in May. The festival also includes staged readings of new full-length works, developed as part of PlayGround's commissioning programs.
The 15th
Annual Best of PlayGround Festival
May 5-29, 2011
Thu-Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Thick House
1695 18th Street (off Arkansas Street)
San Francisco
This is My Body by Daniel Heath, directed by Susi Damilano
Calling the Kettle by Brady Lea, music by Christopher Winslow,
directed by Jessica Heidt
Ecce Homo by Jonathan Luskin, directed by Molly Noble
Rapunzel's Etymology of Zero by Katie May, directed by
Jim Kleinmann
See. On. Unseen. The. Lost. by Evelyn Jean Pine, directed
by Raelle Myrick-Hodges
Escapades by Mandy Hodge Rizvi, directed by M. Graham Smith
Frigidare by Arisa White, directed by Jon Tracy
Ensemble: Rinabeth Apostol*, David Cramer*, Brian Herndon*, Holli Hornlien*,
Michael Phillis, Jomar Tagatac* / Stage Manager: June Palladino*
* Member, Actors' Equity Association
Festival Special Events:
May 7- Opening Night (includes post-performance reception)
May 8 - June Anne Baker Prize Night (includes post-performance
reception)
May 15, 22, 29 - Playwrights on Stage (post-performance
discussions with the playwrights)
For more information and the complete schedule, click
here.
The 2011 Young Playwrights Project
contest finalists will be announced on May 1, 2011.
To view video clips of past festivals, click here.
Past Festivals
- Festival 2010
- Festival 2009
- Festival 2008
- Festival 2007
- Festival 2006
- Festival 2005
- Festival 2004
- Festival 2003
- Festival 2002
- Festival 2001
- Festival 2000
- Festival 1999
- Festival 1998
- Festival 1997