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

Box Office Press Release

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