PlayGround Festival to Present Ruben Grijalva's VALUE OVER REPLACEMENT

At five-foot-seven, one-hundred-sixty pounds, light-hitting shortstop turned drive-time sports radio host, Edward "Chip" Fuller is hardly the poster-boy for baseball's steroid era. But when he learns his name will appear on a list of players linked to performance enhancing drugs, Chip is forced to explain his choice to colleagues, his listeners, and his family. In doing so, he must choose between a bland public apology and a much more difficult confession: that if he had it to do over again, he wouldn't change a thing.

Grijalva's VALUE OVER REPLACEMENT is a 2015 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, a 2015 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist, and has just been awarded an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. It was commissioned and originally developed by PlayGround. PlayGround Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann is directing. The cast features Jomar Tagatac, Melissa Ortiz, Alex Shafer, Stephanie Prentice, Martha Brigham and Christian Haines. (Left, Ruben Grijalva)

The 20th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works features more than 44 performances and readings of the best new plays by Bay Area playwrights. The six-week event runs June 2-July 10 at Thick House, 1695 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94107.

Tickets for VALUE OVER REPLACEMENT: $25-$45 / All-Festival Passes start at $80. Go to www.playground-sf.org/vor.

Performance Schedule:

Days & Times: S M T W Th F Sat

June 13-July 10, 2016

Monday, June 13, 8pm (First Preview)

Tuesday, June 14, 8pm (Second Preview)

Wednesday, June 15, 8pm (Opening & Press Night)

Tuesday, June 21, 8pm

Saturday, June 25, 8pm

Sunday, June 26, 2pm

Sunday, June 26, 7pm

Thursday, June 30, 8pm

Friday, July 1, 8pm

Saturday, July 2, 2pm

Thursday, July 7, 8pm

Sunday, July 10, 2pm

Sunday, July 10, 7pm

The 20th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works features more than 44 performances and readings of the best new plays by Bay Area playwrights. The six-week event runs June 2-July 10 at Thick House, 1695 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94107. For more information on the festival, visit playground-sf.org/festival.

PlayGround, the Bay Area's leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, provides unique development opportunities for the Bay Area's best new playwrights, including the monthly Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, annual PlayGround Festival, 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 more than 200 local playwrights in the development and staging of over 750 original short plays and 61 new full-length plays, with 6 new commissions currently in development.