PlayGround
For A Strategic Plan For A Revised Membership Program
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Amount$45,000
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Program
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Date Awarded5/27/2020
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
PlayGround is an incubator for the development of new voices for the theater, providing opportunities for the cultivation and development of emerging playwrights, and partnerships with directors, actors, and theaters. Through the development of original plays, PlayGround supports emerging playwrights’ experimentation and risk-taking. In the 2018/2019 season, PlayGround’s lively 99-seat San Francisco theater, the Potrero Stage, hosted 150 public performances by PlayGround, resident theater companies, and short-term productions. This grant will help PlayGround hire a consultant to design the Potrero Stage Membership Program, a multi-theater collaborative program to develop audiences and enhance the earned income of its stakeholders.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.playground-sf.org
Address
3286 Adeline Street, Suite 8, Berkeley, CA, 94703-2485, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
PlayGround supports the development of new voices for theater through by cultivating the craft and careers of emerging and more experienced theater makers. Each year, the organization engages over 400 local playwrights, directors, actors, and designers. It commissions the creation new theater works, provides performance opportunities for performers and playwrights, incubates new theater productions and organizations, and serves as a fiscal sponsor. The organization serves audiences through free performances at its theater in San Francisco and streaming online, all of which contributes to the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
PlayGround supports the development of new voices for theater through by cultivating the craft and careers of emerging and more experienced theater makers. Each year, the organization engages over 400 local playwrights, directors, actors, and designers. It commissions the creation new theater works, provides performance opportunities for performers and playwrights, incubates new theater productions and organizations, and serves as a fiscal sponsor. The organization serves audiences through free performances at its theater in San Francisco and online streaming, all of which contributes to the Performing Arts Program’s Artists Strategy.
for general operating support
PlayGround is an incubator for the development of new local voices in theater. Through a suite of programs, PlayGround provides opportunities that cultivate the careers of early-career playwrights and develop new productions. In addition, PlayGround manages the Potrero Stage, a 99-seat black box theater in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood and a flexible rehearsal, meeting, and classroom space in South Berkeley. Each year, the organization serves 8,000 audience members and more than 250 directors, actors, playwrights, and designers.
