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“The game is afoot.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange
SAN FRANCISCO - The topic for the October 20 Monday Night PlayGround-SF has been announced: MURDER MYSTERY! The event will also serve as PlayGround’s second annual evening of one-person plays. From Sherlock Holmes adventures to true crime podcasts, “who done it” stories are as surprising as they are irresistible. PlayGround-SF Writers Pool members have been invited to create a new first-person (not autobiographical) solo piece inspired by this juicy prompt – where in the world, or in time, or in the space-time-continuum - will our playwrights take us? Join us on October 20 at the David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704) to find out! Get tickets at playground-sf.org/boxoffice.
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 32nd anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2025-26 Writers Pools, 112 early-career playwrights in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, who will participate in PlayGround’s signature incubator program, Monday Night PlayGround, developing more than 600 new short plays this season of which 96 will be staged by the four communities over the course of 16 public events, all performed in-person and simulcast under a first-in-the-nation SAG-AFTRA agreement. PlayGround has also announced the 24 playwright alumni selected for this year’s Resident Playwrights Program, including five playwrights under commission and representing all four regions. The 2025-26 Season will feature more than 100 public performances of new works by PlayGround playwrights, ranging from fringe-style full productions to a Hitchcock-inspired holiday show, and from new solo performance to developmental staged readings and premieres of bold new full-length plays. Taken altogether, PlayGround’s 32nd Season represents the nation’s largest celebration of new playwrights and new works and stands as a true celebration of the vitality and promise of the American Theatre.
The PlayGround-SF 2025-26 Writers Pool includes: Monique Adams, Madeleine Butler*, Laura Domingo**, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Daniel Martinez Jr., Christian Wilburn; Los Angeles: Summer Broyhill, Amy Ellenberger, Paris Herbert-Taylor, Jonathan Josephson, Mercedes Segesvary, Baylee Shlichtman*; New York: Saiya Floyd, Howard Ho, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Wade Lawrence Hollomon, Lyra Nalan, Camron Wright*; Chicago: Anne Brady*, Jessie Bond, alfonzo kahlil, Juliet Kang Huneke, Karissa Murrell Myers, Katherine Swan
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David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way,Berkeley, California, United States
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