PlayGround
For General Operating Support
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Amount$75,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/15/2014
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
PlayGround is a center for new play development, connecting first-time and emerging playwrights with established professional actors and directors to generate new work for Bay Area theaters. It commissions numerous ten-minute short plays for its monthly readings and annual festival, and then fully develops the best works into new full-length plays. The company has helped more than 200 local playwrights create new works to reach annual audiences of more than 4,000 people.
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.
