Upcoming events.

May
14

The Deliverance x PlayGround Zoom Festival

Daysha’s newest full-length play, The Deliverance, which was also selected and developed under PlayGround-LA’s New Play Commission was selected for PlayGround’s 2021 Festival reading.

The Deliverance is an expansion of the 10-min play, Mother Earth Day, that digs deeper into history of the Howard Family farmlands and the family’s struggle to have faith in their land, their history, and each other as climate change and increasing racial tension in the country start to wreck havoc over the spiritual connection they have with the land. So, when an investor makes an offer on their land, the family is forced to consider a tough decision.

A free reading of the play will be stream via Zoom on Friday May 14, 2021.

Reservations here.

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PlayGround-LA Monday Night Reading Series
Dec
14

PlayGround-LA Monday Night Reading Series

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Each month, from October through March, PlayGround-LA announces a topic and invites L.A.’s best new dramatists to write and submit original ten-page plays. The best six of these plays are presented as staged readings via Zoom live stream on the second Monday of the month, featuring some of L.A.’s best directors and actors. New in 2020-21, tickets for online viewing are admission-free and can be reserved for an individual performance or for the entire 6-event series with a Monday Night PlayGround subscription. While the events are free, PlayGround-LA is grateful for donations made at the time of ticket reservation in support of our programs.

PlayGround-LA presents
MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND
December 14, 2020, 7pm PT
Live Stream via Zoom
Topic: ILLUMINATE
Admission: Free

That Good Night by Michael P. Adams, directed by M.J. Kang
Twinklers by Susan C. Hunter, directed by Jully Lee
Guiding Light by Starina Johnson, directed by Paris McCarthy
Christmas Spirits by Emily Brauer Rogers, directed by Jesus Reyes
I’ve Decided I’m Not Going by Charles Velasquez-Witosky, directed by Jim Kleinmann
Waiting for Umoja by Daysha Veronica, directed by Rondrell McCormick

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UCLA x New York Theatre Workshop Presents The Write Choice by Daysha Veronica (2020 New Play Festival)
Dec
11

UCLA x New York Theatre Workshop Presents The Write Choice by Daysha Veronica (2020 New Play Festival)

As part of her thesis requirement for the UCLA Playwriting MFA program, Daysha would like to invite you to attend a zoom reading of her thesis play and newest work, The Write Choice.

The Write Choice follows an insecure, young black writer who suffers a tragic loss in the family that sends her back to her childhood home. It is here that she discovers a photograph that inspires her to write her first play with the purpose of submitting it to a prominent new works program up in Portland. To everyone's shock, she wins. But when she shows up for the staged reading and discovers that her cast was not what she had originally envisioned for the piece, she is pushed into finding her own voice to ask for what she really wants amidst navigating the complicated racial power structures of the theater.

This play was workshopped for 4 weeks in collaboration with the award-winning New York Theatre Workshop as part of UCLA’s Department of Theatre New Play Festival.

Streaming access here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9ozjr6dgw

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