PlayGround is
thrilled to announce our growing line-up for the 2017 Gala fundraiser taking
place on Monday, April 3 at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater. America’s most produced
living playwright this season, Lauren
Gunderson (“I and You”), will now be joined by long-time Bay
Area theatre critic Chad
Jones as our interviewer for the evening with local favorite Reggie D. White,
recently seen in Gunderson’s off-Broadway production of I and You and the World
Premiere of her now famous Exit,
Pursued By A Bear,as Master of Ceremonies.
Hosted by Event Honorary
Co-Chairs Fred M. Levin
and Nancy Livingston, the evening features a reception and
silent auction, intimate dinner and “fireside chat” with Gunderson and Jones,
and presentation of the 2017 PlayGround Playwright Awards. A highlight of this
year’s auction will be two coveted tickets for the upcoming Hamilton Broadway tour at the
Orpheum, available exclusively to gala attendees. All proceeds from the gala
benefit PlayGround’s award-winning new play incubator programs and
newly-renovated Potrero Stage: The PlayGround Center for New Plays. For tickets
($300-$1,000) and more information, visit http://playground-sf.org/benefit. Unable to attend but want to support PlayGround's
efforts? Click here to make a tax-deductible
contribution and/or help underwrite artist tickets!
"Lauren
Gunderson is a local
treasure with national clout, whose fierce voice is lifting up the often
invisible experience of women in our history and world." –Mina Morita,
Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theatre. The most produced living
playwright in America of 2016-17, Gunderson’s accolades include winning the
Dramatist Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award and the American Theatre Critics
Association’s Steinberg New Play Award, being a finalist for the Susan Smith
Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and receiving the
Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Company. Her work has
been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including
South Cost Rep, The Kennedy Center, The O’Neill, The Denver Center, San
Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Synchronicity, Olney Theatre, Berkeley Rep,
Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire and more. “Lauren's work never fails to leap off
the page - it crackles with whip smart dialogue as it draws attention to its
subject matter, which is always timely and meaningful. But perhaps my
favorite thing about Lauren’s writing is how female-forward it is. She tells
stories that put women at the center of her narratives, something our culture
desperately needs more of right now.” – Madeline Oldham, Director of Ground
Floor at Berkeley Rep.
Reggie D. White is a
multidisciplinary theatre artist and a PlayGround Company Member. He is a TITAN
Award winner, the founding recipient of the RHE Artistic Fellowship, and is
currently a TCG Fox Fellow in residence at Berkeley Rep. Last year, he was seen
in Lauren Gunderson's I and
You off-Broadway. He also appeared in the World Premiere of
Gunderson's Exit, Pursued By
A Bear at Crowded Fire Theater Company. Reggie and Lauren have
also collaborated on several other pieces in various stages of development.
Chad Jones has
covered theater in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1992. Before becoming the
theater critic for the Bay Area News Group-East Bay, a chain of daily
newspapers that includes the Oakland Tribune, the Tri-Valley Herald and the San
Mateo County Times, he was chief theater writer for the Bay Area Reporter. Chad
was with the Bay Area News Group for more than 10 years. For three years he was
the San Francisco correspondent for the London-based magazine Plays
International. As a freelance writer, his work has appeared in the San
Francisco Chronicle and Wired magazine, Theatre Bay Area magazine, the Marin
Independent Journal, the Sacramento Bee, the Palo Alto Weekly and the Nob Hill
Gazette. After spending a year as the communications manager for Berkeley
Repertory Theatre, Chad is now the executive director of the San Francisco Arts
Education Project (www.sfartsed.org), a
49-year-old nonprofit that pairs professional artists in the visual and
performing arts with children in the public schools, after-school programs and
arts summer camp.
Since 1994, PlayGround has nurtured
more than 200 Bay Area playwrights, supporting the development of over 800
original short plays and 71 new full-length plays. PlayGround recently
re-opened its San Francisco home, Potrero Stage (formerly Thick House), after
an extensive renovation and renaming. PlayGround continues to produce its
celebrated Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading series at Berkeley
Rep, where the series has been performed since 2003 on third Mondays,
September-March. PlayGround alumni have gone on to win local, national and
international honors for their short and full-length work, including
recognition at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Humana Festival,
Sundance Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Aurora Theatre's Global Age
Project, and New York International Fringe Festival, among others.; this event
serves to recognize and support the ongoing efforts of these theatre artists.
For more information, visit http://playground-sf.org.
For more information about the
PlayGround Benefit & Awards Night or to purchase tickets, visit http://playground-sf.org/benefit.
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