Read
on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news,
current happenings, and upcoming events.
Stephanie Prentice is a board member and new casting director at TheatreFirst, led
by new Artistic Director Jon Tracy.
She is currently co-writing music with Reggie
D. White for TheatreFirst's new show, VS., written
by Cleavon Smith, opening in
November. Also featured in TheatreFirst’s 2016-17 season is BENEATH THE TALL TREE,
co-written by Adrienne Walters and Jeffrey
Lo, coming in February 2017. http://theatrefirst.com
Stephanie
Prentice and Michael Barrett Austin will be
appearing in Baker
Street, the Sherlock Holmes musical, at 42nd Street Moon Nov. 2-20 2016.
www.42ndstmoon.org.
Graham
Smith opened his show DEAL WITH THE DRAGON at Edinburgh’s Fringe
Festival which runs through August 27. He’s at OSF rehearsing the new Dorothy
for THE WIZ, who begins wearing the silver slippers starting August 17. Then
he’s back in SF workshopping a new musical about the AIDS Quilt which has free
public showing at Custom Made Theatre on August 26. Please come!
Robert Sicular begins rehearsals this
month for Marin Theater Company's production of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize
winning play, August: Osage County. Previews begin
September 8th.
Daniel Heath's first full-length play, the
choose-your-own-adventure comedy FORKING, is
being remounted by Pianofight with an all-new cast and revised script (it's now
set in the 1990's because Barack Obama's health-care law broke the plot).
Remaining shows Saturday, August 13th, Weds August 17th, and Friday August
19th.
In August, Patricia Cotter’s June Anne Baker Prize
commission 1980
(Or Why I'm Voting For John Anderson) just finished a week long workshop
which ended in three public readings at The Cape Cod Theatre Project in
Falmouth, Mass. So basically...she just wants to give the biggest shout out to
PlayGround, and to the June Anne Baker Prize. Thank you PlayGround for the
support of the play and of the playwright!
Davern Wright is performing in San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival's free touring production of THE WINTER'S TALE,
now until Oct. 2. Visit sfshakes.org for
tour schedule.
Nancy
Fishman spent a week at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, http://www.wellstoneredwoods.org, a
writer's retreat in Soquel, CA and she highly recommends it to others.
Douglas Giorgis will be playing
Edward Rutledge in 1776 from October 7 to November 5 with CCMT at the Dean
Lescher Center in Walnut Creek.
L. Zephyr's
play, LET THE GAMES BEGIN, will be performed on Aug 26th as part of the 3Girls
Theatre LezWrites! showcase.
Roberta D’Alois, Artistic Director
of Jump! Theatre has received word that Jump! has been chosen as one of A.C.T.’s
Community Partners for 2016-17. Jump! will present a series of new works at A.C.T.’s
Costume Shop in March 2017.
Mary Baird is currently playing
Maria at Marin Shakes closes Aug 21.
Cindy Goldfield is in rehearsal for It Shoulda Been You at Center Rep in
Walnut Creek.
Tracy Ward directed The Thrush and the Woodpecker for Custom Made, featuring Stacy Ross and running through August
27 at 533 Sutter.
On August 18,
Ex Nihilo Theater presented TERRA INCOGNITA Episode Five: Unfinished Business, written by Jennifer Lynne Roberts, at
Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland. http://exnihilotheater.weebly.com/
Tanya Grove's short play Where There's a Will is part of SF
Theatre Pub's Pint-sized Play Festival. That's in the bar at PianoFight (144
Taylor, S.F.). Performances are free, the food is good, and they have a full
bar! August 15, 22, 23, 29, and 30. Shows start at 8, but come early if you
want a table.
PlayGround's
first commissioned play, Garret Jon
Groenveld's MISSIVES, was recently released as a podcast recording by the
Parsnip Ship. Give it a listen! iTunes,
Soundcloud,
The Parsnip Ship
Madeleine Butler's 10-minute play A
DOG'S LIFE was produced as a script-in-hand staged reading as part of the PCSF
Playoffs Round 3 at the Shelton Theatre on July 31. The play was originally
developed as a 5-minute piece for a PlayGround class taught by Daniel Heath.
Ken
Sonkin is currently directing WILD BOY by Oliver Goldstick
at Dragon Theatre in Redwood City, July 29 - August 21, 2016. (www.dragonproductions.net). He is also
directing Michael Patrick Gaffney in his original one-man show, THE
OLDEST LIVING CATER WAITER. SF Fringe Festival — Piano Fight: Main Stage.
September 9 - 24, 2016. www.sffringe.org/oldest/
Rachel Bublitz attended the Wyoming Theater Festival
last month where her play Ripped was
read and she taught an introductory class on playwriting. Ripped will
receive a local staged reading with San Francisco Playhouse on October 24th, directed
by Claire Rice.
Rosie Hallett is playing Perdita in the SF Shakes
production of THE WINTER'S TALE. She'll be living in Paris from October through
December, working with an English language theater -- if you're coming through,
let her know, and she'll take you out to the best bar in town!
Mark Routhier has moved to New Orleans where he
will be the Literary Director for The NOLA Project. He is presently
directing the world premiere of Gabrielle Reisman's FLOOD CITY which will open
September 1st. Upcoming projects include directing Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon at Loyola University
and Taylor Mac's Hir at the
Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis.
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