PlayGround PlayGroup
The PlayGround PlayGroup is an intimate, process-focused collective of makers gathered to celebrate the creation of new work. The group, now in its 15th season, welcomes artists to develop and support new projects within the structure of an engaged, curious, and uplifting cohort of colleagues. This year, PGPG will convene in-person, and the group is open to artists in the NYC area. Artists will rotate weeks of sharing and supporting during meetings that will occur on Mondays approximately every two weeks from February - June 2025.
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!
2025 Artists in Residence
Kyle June Williams (she/her) had a residency at The Standard Hollywood creating and producing queer driven comedy. She was the featured comic on back to back international and stateside tours and has been lucky enough to perform standup at The Kennedy Center, The Wilshire in LA, The Eventim Apollo in London, and New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Kyle June's one woman show, Only Child, a true(ish) crime documentary about a catfishing murderer up for parole, is currently workshopping here in NY alongside collaborator and director, Melisa Annis.
Phillip Gregory Burke is a Black American of Haitian, Creole, and Gullah-Geechee descent artivist, actor, playwright, and producer. His play A Mercy At Midnight Castle won the 49th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival and will be published by Concord Theatricals. He won The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Fund for the Arts Grant, is a 2024-2025 Bandung Resident, 2024-2025 Arthouse Inkubator New Play Program Cohort, holds memberships in SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and The Dramatists Guild, and co-founded DIEZ. @PhillipGBurke
Sophie Sagan-Gutherz is a wannabe goth covered in cat hair who creates devastating projects that will make you laugh laugh laugh. Their practice involves writing, producing and performing across stage and screen. They’re a proud Production Accessibility Trainee with the “queercrip” production company indieVISIBLE and an NYU Tisch Drama Gender Expansive Mentor. sophiesagangutherz.com
Taylor Steele is a queer, Black, NYC-born-and-based writer and theatermaker. She was a member of the 2024 Short Play Lab at New Perspectives. Her one-hour Afrofuturist play “Damages” was selected to be part of Ars Nova’s 2023 ANT Fest. A triple Taurus, Taylor stubbornly believes in the power of art to change, shape, and heal.
Utkarsh is following the call of Rasha Abdulhadi to use their bio to uplift resistance efforts against empire, including the US-sponsored genocide and colonization of Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and Turtle Island. Longer, hyper-linked bio on website (www.utkarsh.space).
Previous Residents
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.