About Playground 2025

From June 12-14, 2025, Playground: Festival of New Work will feature works by emerging artists from the Waterloo Region and surrounding area.

Playground is a theatre community platform where creators can present their next exciting idea. Playground has had successful productions from 2017-2019, and returned in June 2024, after a few years hiatus, with a showcase of short monologues. In June 2025 Playground is back in action with full-length works again, and will be featuring 4 exciting staged readings by talented local playwrights.

Submissions were accepted in Fall 2024, and the production/support team and playwrights have been workshopping new works regularly since then.

Now teams are being gathered together to showcase these works. We love to work with first timers, as much as we enjoy supporting all emerging and established artists. By joining our festival, you will join a community of local theatre and performance makers.

Please join us, especially if what excites you most is the chance to workshop and produce at the region's most popular venue: The Registry Theatre!

How To Join Playground 2025

The best way to meet the teams and find out how your skills may best fit is to attend the audition/open house night at Centre in the Square (Boardroom - enter Stage Door) on April 15th from 6:30-9:30pm. Please contact us by April 13th to book a spot.

Video auditions or inquiries are also welcome!

Our invitation extends to performers, directors, stage managers, theatre technicians of all kinds, stagehands, musicians, choreographers, designers, filmmakers, animators, and new media artists who are looking for opportunities to practice their craft and are excited to work with talented creators to bring these productions to life.

There may be opportunities for interested creators/directors, etc. to meet team members at open meetings if there are conflicts with April 15th.

Please reach out to [email protected] to book an audition spot, or with any questions, comments, or interest.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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