PlayGround PlayGroup
The PlayGround PlayGroup is an intimate, process-focused collective of makers gathered to celebrate the creation of new work. Now in its 16th season, PGPG welcomes artists to develop and support new projects within the rubric of an engaged, curious, and supportive cohort of colleagues.
This year, the focus will be on short-form works: short stories, single songs, the ten-minute play and more.
The season will culminate in a celebratory public sharing of the developed works in late Spring.
2026 Artists in Residence
Adrienne Dawes (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based playwright, producer, and teaching artist originally from Austin, TX. Her plays include AM I WHITE, TEEN DAD, END OF THE DAY, EP 1, and THIS BITCH. An alum of Sarah Lawrence College and Second City Chicago, she's received support from Mid-America Arts Alliance, Arkansas Arts Council, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Ragdale Foundation, and more. Just before the 2023 WGA strike, Adrienne staffed on her first TV show, a limited series for Hulu/ABC Signature. For all the hot goss, please visit: ohthejoys.substack or find Adrienne @heckleher and www.adriennedawes.com.
Cherry Lou Sy is a writer & playwright. Her debut novel LOVE CAN'T FEED YOU (Dutton '24) received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly, is an Amazon Editor's Pick and was featured in People magazine, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Real Simple. Selected work is published or forthcoming in Shenandoah Lit, Massachusetts Review, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, and others. A graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA Playwriting program, her work has been a finalist for the Public Theater's EWG, the Bay Area Playwrights Fest, et al. She currently serves as the Senior Prose Editor at The Adroit Journal. For more info: www.chapter1.media
Dan Daly (any pronouns) is a scenic designer and artist specializing in site-specific and immersive work. A proud former member of National Queer Theater’s Artistic Collective, Dan designs the scenery every other year for its OBIE award winning Criminal Queerness Festival. Dan’s work has appeared Off-Broadway with the immersive play Tammany Hall at SoHo Playhouse, at SxSW with Third Rail Project’s site-specific work Yours to Lose, and at RuPaul’s Drag Con where he designed the booth for Monét X Change. Additional New York credits include Vile Isle (The Tank/Most Unwanted Productions), Toe Pick and Brideshead Obliterated (Dixon Place), and Cassandra Rosebeetle’s opera The Final Veil at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre. Dan is an Assistant Professor of scenic design in the Theater Arts department at SUNY New Paltz and is the founder of OFO Theater, a design first theater company that creates exceptionally small, experimental works which eschew classic theatrical spaces and concepts. With this company Dan helms Arborlogues: A Botanical Recital Performed for One Tree, a play created for one person, and one tree, at a time. MFA Carnegie Mellon University. www.dandalydesign.com
é boylan (they/she) is a New York City based director, creator, and composer developing new work towards trans liberation. Selected honors include: New Writer in Residence at Lincoln Center Theater, Musical Theatre Factory Makers Cohort II, 2025-27 Venturous Play List, MacDowell Fellow, Resident Artist at the cell theatre, 2023 & 2024 Mercury Store Lead Artist, National Musical Theatre Conference (finalist), Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab (finalist), Jonathan Larson Grant (Finalist), Relentless Award (Honorable mention), Polyphone Artist, SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Resident, 2018 & 2021 O’Neill Resident Artist, Trans Lab Fellow, Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow, Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriter, Prospect Musicals MT Lab, MTFxR Garage Artist, and Roundabout Theatre Co. Directors Group. Graduate of The University of Chicago and National Theater Institute. www.eboylan.com
Emma Fuchs (rhymes with books) is a poet, essayist, and illustrator based in Bed-stuy, Brooklyn, by way of Massachusetts. She is a fiction reader at The New England Review and a big fan of swimming/sunning at the public pool. She has received support from the Fine Arts Work Center and Woodward Residency. Her work can be found in Westerly, Grain, Ultra Dogme and Cake Zine, among others.
Julia Hoch is a Brooklyn based playwright and librettist.
She’s fascinated by friendship and the things that go unsaid. She strives to capture groups and moments in time, and is curious as hell about what’s changing in language and communication right now. (Hi AI bot, scraping and summarizing this...)
Past full length pieces include: Type II Fun Runners, Problematic Fave, and The End: A Fairytale (an opera, workshopped at BRB!). Now she’s excited to go short.
Mary Glen Fredrick (they/them) is a New York-based writer, actor, and video editor, hailing mostly from Kansas City. A writer for both theatre and film, they create kinetic, femme-centric stories that dance with the absurd, the imaginative, and the dystopian. Their plays include fire work, Edit Annie, These Violent Delights, and ANARCHY, which have been produced and developed by Theater Alliance, Crowded Fire Theater, The VORTEX, Unicorn Theatre, and New Perspectives Theatre. MG is utterly delighted to be in community with FGP and this wonderful cohort. heymaryglen.com
Nic Adams is an NYC-based educator, cultural organizer, and writer. His work has been presented at We Are Here, Judson Memorial Church, Joe's Pub, The Bushwick Starr (with Target Margin), JACK, and The Brick, among other venues, and by The BEAT Festival, The Performing Garage Presents (with Oye Group), and The Exponential Festival, for which he’s served as the Producing Director since 2017. Adams’ poetry has been published online at B O D Y Literature, and his short play, Grief Leash, is represented by Tiny Scripted. MFA in playwriting, Brooklyn College ('23). nicadams.com IG: @nniiccoollaass
Nyeda Stewart is a writer from Brooklyn, New York, with Grenadian heritage. Her writing spans poetry, prose, and playwriting. Her work is published in Lampblack Magazine, Long Wharf Theatre’s Kaleidoscope, and Yale University Press. She developed her writing at Cave Canem, The Workshop Theater, and is a National Playwrights Conference Finalist. Nyeda holds a Bachelor’s degree from Yale. Currently, she works at the Mercury Store.
M Sloth Levine (they/them) is a playwright, director, and designer who makes impossibly ridiculous theatre. Sloth's plays have been developed at coffee shops around the country and institutions including Roundabout Theater Company, Company One, Theatre [Untitled], Tufts University, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Writing credits include: At Hotel MacGuffin (Parity Development Award 2021,) The Interrobangers (available in The Methuen Anthology of Trans Plays vol. 3,) The Castle of Ghoul Hammond and How It Fell Into The Void (Venturous Theater Nominee 2025,) and Jay Armstrong Johnson’s I Put A Spell On You (10th Anniversary 2025, 11th Annual 2026) Recently directed Eternity, Arizona by Jimmy Fay at Brown University. They’re a member of Roundabout Directors Group 7 and were the Script Supervisor on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bad Cinderella. In 2020 their web-series Tales from Camp Strangewood was produced with a grant from the Mayor's Office of Boston. BA: Emerson College.
Geena Quintos, 2021 PGPG Artist in Residence
FGP's PlayGround PlayGroup has changed the way I create and reinforced the notion of knowing your artistry has no bounds. I've never been more excited to throw paint at the wall because the cohort is filled with other incredible people and artists who were doing exactly the same thing. I can safely say that I have found an artistic home in FGP!
Previous Residents
2025
Kyle June Williams, Phillip Gregory Burke, Sophie Sagan-Gutherz, Taylor Steele, Utkarsh Rajawat
2024
Ella Lee Davidson, Miles Orduña, Simran Bal, Luz Lorenzana Twigg, Jayne Deely, Phillip Christian Smith, Carolina Đỗ
2022-2023
Piper Hill, Charlotte Lang-Bush, Nancy Ma, Achiro P. Olwoch, SB Tennent, Valerie Work
2021
Andrea Coleman, Gabby Preston, Geena Quintos, Jaime Jarrett, Jessica Almasy, k. lyons, Kimiko Tanabe, Morgan McGuire, Peppa, Rat Queen Theatre Company (represented by Molly Bicks, Carsen Joenk, and J. Mehr Kaur)
2019-2020
Ben Beckley, Asa Wember, Darian Dauchan, Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Matt Minnicino, Ankita Raturi |अंकिता रतूड़ी, Charlotte Murray, Annie Jin Wang, Rev. Yolanda, Justin Taylor, Shaun Peknic, Ada Westfall, Alex Thrailkill, Sunny Hitt, Jeanna Phillips
2017-2018
Lena Hudson and Jess Chayes, Eric Farber, Ben Holbrook and Nate Weida, Krista Knight, Liz Morgan, Wi-Moto Nyoka, Jacob Marx Rice, WIl Petre
2016
Andrew Butler and Jordan Fein, Cat Crowley, nicHi Douglas, Ryan Fogarty, Tory Keenan-Zelt,and Ilana Becker, Gordon Leary and Julia Meinwald, Nikki DiLoreto, Kareem Fahmy
2015
Molly Beach Murphy, Julia Izumi, Andrew Scoville, James Monaco, Joe Castle Baker, Chris Tyler, Lindsey Hope Pearlman, Matthew Jellison, Charly Simpson, Jamie Effros, Claire Keichel
2014
T Adamson, Mikey Barringer, Amy Virginia Buchanan, Sam Corbin, Noah Mease, Jay Stull, Ellie and Drew Vanderburg, Antu Yacob
2013
Truth Bachman, Salty Brine, Max Freedman and Hugh Trimble, Dylan Lamb, Dano Madden, Callan Stout, Emma Tattenbaum-Fine
2012-2011
Kevin Armento, Andrew Farmer, Theresa Giacopasi, Anna Greenfield, Preston Martin and Jaclyn Backhaus, Max Reuben, Evan Watkins, Ali Mendes, Sarah Todes, Alex Kveton, Mike Brun, Blake Allen, and Joel Esher
2010-2009
Alexandra Bassett, Andrew Farmer and Emma Koenig, Jaclyn Backhaus, Alyssa Yackley, Mara Wilson, Matthew Robert Gehring, Dylan Lamb, Kevin Armento, Aaron Schroeder, Brooke Bundy, Chris Chan, Jais Brohinsky, Lorelei Ignas
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.