STARE INTO THE VOID AND YOU'LL SEE STARS by Kaz Valtchev (PlayGround-SF)August 16 at 8:00 PM, August 17 at 4:00 PM, August 18 at 8:00 PM
Luna is on a camping trip with her friends, waiting to watch a meteor shower, sounds relaxing right? Except she's a ball of anxiety being haunted by the ghost of her friend, Jenn, while her living friends have planned an intervention for her marijuana use. As the night goes on, everyone in the friend group reveals more secrets surrounding Jenn's suicide and they learn more about Jenn, each other, and the nature of trauma and healing.
Kaz Valtchev (he/they) has worked onstage, backstage, and front of stage for various theaters in the Bay area including Cal Shakes, Bay Area Children's Theatre, Bindlestiff Studios, and many others. He has been a part of the PlayGround Writer's Pool for the past two years and has been an actor and stage manager for PlayGround in the past as well. He has had short plays produced with the Pear Theater, the Queer AF Festival, and Left Coast Theater Company. He also had an original monologue published in the anthology, WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters.
Tessa Corrie (she/her) is a Queer, Latinx, and Neurodivergent Theater Director homegrown from the Bay Area. She specializes in new play development that amplifies underrepresented narratives. She is a company member and casting associate at PlayGround. Her credits include work at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Palo Alto Players, The Pear Theatre, Cutting Ball Theatre, The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, Left Coast Theatre Company, More Más Marami Arts, and Poltergeist Theatre Project.
Dio Ramirez (they/them) is the head electrician and board programmer for UC Berkeley's Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Department. They began their theatrical career at Cal, TDPS class of 2015. Some titles they have held over the last eight years include: freelance electrician, building engineer, museum preparator, and, most recently, facilities manager for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In the past they have worked as an electrician with Cal Shakes, Theatre Yugen, the Asian Art Museum, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, to name a few.
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the third annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 9-25, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This three-week “fringe style” new works festival features 11 productions from highly sought-after theatre artists from across the country including four PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Ranging in subject from the U.S. Citizen Test to mentally ill mothers to gender dysphoria, and varying in styles from dance pieces to ensemble plays to one-person shows, PlayGround’s Free-Play Festival features a stellar lineup of seasoned theatre professionals, first-time producers, and all-star performers in every aspect of live performance, direction, and choreography. Each production will be presented for three performances at Potrero Stage (18th Street @ Arkansas), detailed schedule below. Admission is free (donations gratefully accepted) but advance reservations are required for livestreaming. For more information or to reserve in-person or online tickets, visit https://playground-sf.org/freeplay.
Event Venue
Potrero Stage, 1726 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94107-2343, United States,San Francisco, California
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