Bay Area’s “Zoom” Theater Festival Goes Live (May 11-June 14)
Due to COVID-19, this year’s Festival of New Works is going digital. Over 5 weeks, PlayGround will offer 25 live-streamed events via Zoom, including 3 fully-produced premiere presentations, 13 readings of top short and full-length plays, a Zoom town hall, and closing night party.
Tickets for premiere productions will start at $15, and readings and events will be free.
PlayGround Zoom Fest
May 11-June 14, 2020 – via Zoom Live Stream
Tickets: Free for most events (premiere presentations start at just $15)
Get your tickets here.
PlayGround, the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, provides unique development opportunities for the Bay Area’s best new playwrights, including the monthly Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, full-length play commissions and support for the production of new plays by local playwrights through the New Play Production Fund.
For more information, visit their website and Facebook Event Page.
May 11 8pm PT – PlayGround Shorts, Program A
May 13 8pm PT – PlayGround Film Festival, Program A
May 14 8pm PT – PlayGround Film Festival, Program B
May 15 8pm PT – FIRST PERSON SHOOTER by Aaron Loeb
May 16 8pm PT – SAFE HOUSE by Geetha Reddy
May 17 5pm PT – LOLITA ROADTRIP by Trevor Allen
May 18 8pm PT – PlayGround Shorts, Program B
May 20 8pm PT – PlayGround Film Festival, Program C
May 21 8pm PT – PlayGround Film Festival, Program D
May 22 8pm PT – ABOMINABLE by Katie May
May 23 8pm PT – 1980 OR WHY I’M VOTING FOR JOHN ANDERSON by Patricia Cotter
May 24 5pm PT – ANNA CONSIDERS MARS by Ruben Grijalva
May 25 8pm PT – TRANSLATIONS by Victoria Chong Der
May 29 8pm PT – SAPIENCE by Diana Burbano
May 30 8pm PT ($15) – DISBELIEF by Garret Jon Groenveld (A Zoom Premiere Presentation, Opening Night)
May 31 5pm PT ($15) – DISBELIEF by Garret Jon Groenveld (A Zoom Premiere Presentation, Closing Night)
June 1 8pm PT – BURST by Rachel Bublitz
June 5 8pm PT – THE NESTING INSTINCT by Tom Bruett
June 6 8pm PT ($15) – THE RENDERING CYCLE by Genevieve Jessee (A Zoom Premiere Presentation, Opening Night)
June 7 5pm PT ($15) – THE RENDERING CYCLE by Genevieve Jessee (A Zoom Premiere Presentation, Closing Night)
June 8 8pm PT – A ZOOM TOWN HALL: “PLAYGROUND & THE AMERICAN THEATRE – PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE”
June 12 8pm PT – YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT
June 13 8pm PT ($15) – BEST OF PLAYGROUND 24 (A Zoom Premiere Presentation, Opening Night)
June 14 5pm PT ($15) – BEST OF PLAYGROUND 24 (A Zoom Premiere Presentation, Closing Night)
June 14 7pm PT – CLOSING NIGHT CAST & DANCE PARTY
