Potrero Stagers Membership: The Future of the American Theatre is HERE!

Did you catch the Potrero Stagers Launch Party on May 1? If so, you heard the exciting news about our new POTRERO STAGERS membership program. What are the Potrero Stagers?!

POTRERO STAGERS
[pə-trer-ō stā-jərz]
NOUN (PL.)

  1. a community of theatregoers and artists actively engaged with the theatre and theatre-makers of Potrero Stage
  2. a pay-as-you-go membership program that unlocks a variety of benefits from the many companies who call Potrero Stage home. Members receive unique opportunities to more deeply and frequently engage with the artists, companies, and new works presented at Potrero Stage each year.

Benefits include:

  • access to more than 45 digitally-accessible events each year (even when the theater reopens), including the Solo Performance Festival, Festival of New Works (aka Zoom Fest), and Innovators Showcase, featuring the work of nearly a dozen innovative new theatre companies
  • significant discounts for Potrero Stage ticketed events
  • priority reservations for in-venue seats to most Potrero Stage programs
  • exclusive monthly member-only events with special access to the artists behind the work
  • Potrero Stagers member e-newsletter with insider artist interviews, articles on upcoming programming, and more

A portion of each membership directly supports artist compensation.

Memberships are just $60 per year or $5 per month (working artists can join for just $30 per year or $2.50 per month). The future of the American Theatre is HERE!

PURCHASE POTRERO STAGERS MEMBERSHIP

Potrero Stage is a 99-seat state-of-the-art performance space located in the heart of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, operated by PlayGround, and serving as home to some of the Bay Area’s leading new play developers and producers, including PlayGround, Crowded Fire, Golden Thread, Playwrights Foundation, and the numerous new innovative companies being launched through PlayGround’s Innovator Incubator, among others. While the venue is closed during the COVID pandemic, Potrero Stage will highlight the best in online programming by PlayGround, Potrero Stage resident companies and other Potrero Stage producers. And, now through the Potrero Stagers membership program, PlayGround provides opportunities for access to and engagement with some of the Bay Area’s most innovative artists and companies. For more information, visit https://potrerostage.org.

PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator, provides unique development opportunities for the Bay Area’s (and now Los Angeles’) best new playwrights, including the monthly Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, full-length play commissions and support for the production of new plays by local playwrights through the New Play Production Fund. To date, PlayGround has supported over 200 early career playwrights, developing and staging more than 950 of their original short plays through the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series and the PlayGround Festival. PlayGround has also commissioned 85 new full-length plays by 55 of these writers through its Commissioning Initiative and, through the innovative New Play Production Fund, has directly facilitated the premiere of 30 plays at theatres of every size, including three that have gone on to NYC and other major theater communities. Most recently, PlayGround renovated and relaunched the former Thick House Theater in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill as Potrero Stage, a state-of-the-art center for new plays, home to PlayGround’s expanding artistic programs and some of the Bay Area’s most distinguished new play developers and producers. Over the past twenty-seven years, PlayGround has served to identify some of the most important new local voices for the theatre. PlayGround’s alumni have gone on to win local, national, and international honors for their short and full-length work, including recognition at the Steinberg Awards, Humana Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and The Lark’s Playwrights’ Week, among others. PlayGround received the 2009 Paine Knickerbocker Award for outstanding contributions to Bay Area theatre, 3 BATCC Awards for Best Original Script for PlayGround commissions, a 2014 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (founder of the Tony Awards®), and a 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Visit https://playground-sf.org for more information.