Ten days before the designated
Monday, a topic is announced and the thirty-six playwrights in the PlayGround-LA Writers Pool have until 2pm the following Tuesday to submit a short script. A
panel of judges selects six winners, whose entries are cast over the weekend
and then rehearsed with the area’s best professional actors and directors in a
whirlwind ninety minutes each before being performed as script-in-hand staged
readings. Previous topics include “Origin Story”, “Sea-Change”, “Holiday Spirit”,
“I Have A Dream...”, and “Star-Crossed Lovers”.
The inaugural PlayGround-LA Writers
Pool are:
Megan Breen, Cort Brinkerhoff, Ron
Burch*, Tiffany Cascio*, Kathleen Cecchin*, Maurice Chauvet, John Corcoran*,
Allie Costa*, Andrew Crabtree*, Kevin Crust*, Mike Deas, Thomas Dunn, Vincent
Terrell Durham*, Joshua Fardon, Miguel Garcia, Forrest Hartl*, Elayne Heilveil,
Tim Hill, Karen Howes, Susan Hunter, Sara Israel, Ian Kaye, Arthur Keng, Marc
Ketchem, Carolina Rojas*, Raquel Rosser, Jessica Rowe, Katie Rubin, Richard
Ruyle, Mercedes Segesvary*, Mark Sherstinsky*, Ann-Giselle Spiegler, Chelsea
Sutton, Lucy Wang, Jennie Webb, Lilliana Winkworth,
*
Best of PlayGround Award recipient
ABOUT PLAYGROUND-LA
The mission of PlayGround-LA is to
support the development of significant new local voices for the theatre.
PlayGround-LA has developed a unique model for identifying and nurturing the
best new writers, helping them to build a significant body of original work,
and strongly weaving these artists into the family of local theatre
professionals. PlayGround pairs early development playwrights with established,
professional actors and directors and fosters the artistic relationships that
develop.
PlayGround-LA is the first regional
expansion of the celebrated Bay Area playwright incubator and theatre community
hub, PlayGround(SF). PlayGround was launched in San Francisco in 1994 by
co-founders Jim Kleinmann, Brighde Mullins and Denise Shama. In 1996, Kleinmann
became PlayGround’s first Artistic Director. Since its founding, PlayGround has
developed and staged nearly 700 original ten-minute plays by 200 Bay Area
early-career writers and has commissioned/developed 54 full-length plays by
distinguished PlayGround alumni. In the process of staging those works,
PlayGround has helped to identify some of the leading emerging writers and, at
the same time, has engendered the creation of a true community of theatre artists,
bringing together hundreds of local actors, directors and playwrights. For most
if not all of the participating writers, PlayGround is the first professional
staging their work has received and serves as their introduction into the
professional theatre community.
PlayGround’s alumni have gone on to
win local, national and international honors for their short and full-length
work, including recognition at the Humana Festival, Sundance Festival, Bay Area
Playwrights Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, Aurora Theatre
Company’s Global Age Project, and Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play
Festival, among others. Directors and actors participating in PlayGround are
among some of the most distinguished theatre professionals, regularly working
on leading local stages.
For more information, visit http://PlayGround-LA.org or follow
PlayGround on Facebook (http://facebook.com/PlayGround.LosAngeles)
and Twitter (http://twitter.com/PlayGround_LA).
PlayGround-LA’s Monday Night
PlayGround is
WHAT:
Six original short plays by L.A.’s
best new dramatists, inspired by the topic “The Drought”
WHEN:
October 13, 2014 at 8pm
Additional
Season Dates:
November 10, 2014
December 8, 2014
January 12, 2015
February 9, 2015
March 19, 2015
WHERE:
Zephyr Theatre
7456 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90046
HOW:
(323) 992-6766 or
ADVANCE TICKETS: $20, priority
seating; $15, general admission; $10, student admission with ID. $20 general
admission tickets at the door beginning one hour before the performance,
subject to availability. 6-admission flex subscriptions (includes priority
seating) start at just $75.
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