BEST OF PLAYGROUND(SF) ’25 (a Festival Premiere Presentation)
The Best Short Works from the 2024-25 Monday Night PlayGround Season
May 24 & May 25, 7pm PT at Potrero Stage & Simulcast
On-Demand thru May 31
Admission: $0-$50 (donations gratefully accepted)

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PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(SF) ‘25. Originally developed among thirty-six new short plays through PlayGround’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, these plays will receive a two-night encore performance on May 24 & 25, 2025 at 7pm PT at Potrero Stage and simulcast under a unique new media agreement with SAG-AFTRA. Free to stream, watch on-demand, and at the door on show nights (donations gratefully accepted), advanced in-person reservations start at $10.

Isabel will be reprising her roles in two short plays from this year’s Best Of:

Ratification Panic Room by Jediah Craig
Grandma’s First Festivus by Laura Domingo*

About the Plays and Playwrights

Ratification Panic Room by Jediah Craig
This is true: On January 6, 2021, as rioters stormed the Capitol, congressional aides took it upon themselves to remove the boxes containing the electoral votes, preventing them from being destroyed, and in doing so preserved the ratification of the election and with it our democracy at large.

Jediah Craig, he/him,  is a member of the Playground SF Writers Pool, Playwright’s Center of San Francisco, and Theatre Bay Area. He lives in Berkeley with his very patient family, who humor him as he stumbles through “this writing thing,” secretly hoping it’s just a phase.

Grandma’s First Festivus by Laura Domingo
At Grandma’s first Festivus celebration, the “Airing of Grievances” takes an unexpected turn.

Laura Domingo, she/her, is a Native Hawaiian/Filipina writer and actor based in Oakland, CA. She has written screenplays for three Best Film winners for the 48-Hour Film Project (2019 – San Jose; 2020 – U.S. West; and 2021 – San Jose), and her short plays won runner-up in 2023 and 2024 for Silicon Valley Shakespeare’s 48-Hour Play Festival. She is part of the writing pool with SF-based sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster. Laura is the winner of the 2025 The June Anne Baker Prize which includes a full-length play commission. Established by PlayGround supporter John H. Gilman in memory of his late wife, honors the top female or non-binary playwright each year, representing a gifted new comedic or political voice for the stage.