Name: PlayGround Solo Fest: When You Are Called
Start: 2026-02-05T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-08T21:30:00-08:00
Location: Potrero Stage

PlayGround Solo Fest: When You Are Called

When You Are Called by Diana Brown and Susan Lily Jackson, performed by Diana Brown
Thurs, Feb 5 at 7pm
Sat, Feb 7 at 5:30pm
Sun Feb 8 at 8:30pm
Janice Surprise Heyer, televangelist with a soul, finds herself at the San Francisco Spiritual Inclusion Symposium. She works her way through the crowd, with humorous stories and improvisation-- seeking believers and thinkers, movers and shakers; can a Southern Christian Evangelist find connection in the Bay Area? Church fans provided. Southern Railroad Theatre Company continues its journey down the railroad tracks of life--bringing the real Southern experience to the Bay Area...."one hush puppy at a time."
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PlayGround has announced the lineup for its ninth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in solo performance, running January 16-February 8, 2026 (Thurs-Mon), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work (the largest in PlayGround’s history!) features 18 solo performers and 60 performances, including work by Linda Ayres-Frederick, Blaire Battle, Diana Brown, Annie Laurie Daniel, Carolyn Doyle, Ketsia Duval, Nicole Galland, Emil Amok Guillermo, Caroline Hawthorne, Ric Iverson, Susan Lily Jackson, Emily M. Keyishian, Joshua Klein, Brian Leonard, Schaeffer Nelson, Miyoko Sakatani, Gabe Seplow, RJ Silva, and Puja Tolton.
This year’s festival was competitively selected from open applications, and is a direct extension of PlayGround’s mission and commitment to the discovery of bold new voices for the stage and the development of innovative and timely original content. Tickets are Admission-Free (Suggested Donation: $10-$30). All donations directly support PlayGround and our guest artists. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit playground-sf.org/solofest.