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 two weeks in May. The festival also includes staged readings of new full-length works, developed as part of PlayGround’s commissioning programs.
The 12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival
May 8-25, 2008
Thu-Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Thick House
1695 18th Street (off Arkansas Street)
San Francisco
O Happy Dagger by Crish Barth, directed by Tracy Ward
The Boy Who Did Not Listen To His Mother by Cass Brayton,
directed by Nancy Carlin
Three Stories by Garret Jon Groenveld, directed by Lee
Sankowich
Leo by Daniel Heath, directed by Jessica Heidt
Panopticon by Aaron Loeb, directed by Barbara Oliver
The Known World by Geetha Reddy, directed by Chris Smith
Giving Up The Ghost by Lauren Yee, directed by Jim Kleinmann
Ensemble: B.W. Gonzalez*, Christen Karle*, Anthony Nemirovsky*, Joseph
O'Malley, Carla Pantoja, Adrian Roberts*, Ken Sonkin*
* Member, Actors' Equity Association
To view video clips of this year's festival, click here.
Past Festivals
- Festival 2008
- Festival 2007
- Festival 2006
- Festival 2005
- Festival 2004
- Festival 2003
- Festival 2002
- Festival 2001
- Festival 2000
- Festival 1999
- Festival 1998
- Festival 1997