What I Remember Most about the End of the World, Nino Greene
Thurs, Aug 21, 6PM; Sat, Aug 23, 8PM; Sun, Aug 24, 6PM
A revolutionary, self-aware Artificial Intelligence ruminates on her tragicomic “first contact” with an alien species: Us.
Playwright Nino Greene recently completed both a mid-life crisis and an MFA in Creative Writing. His ten-minute play, THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO & JULIET & BERNARD, THE SHAVE KING, won the Audience Favorite award at the 2025 Silicon Valley Shakespeare 48-Hour Play Festival. His full-length play, YOU DON’T HAVE TO CRY, was a semi-finalist at the Ashland New Play Festival, 2024. He is also a member of the SF PlayGround Writers Pool, which produced three of his ten-minute plays during the 2024-2025 season, including CONVERSATION, which was an honorary mention for Best of SF Playground. Another, SMALL CAT NEGOTIABLE, was turned into a radio-play podcast by the Open-Door Playhouse.
Director Bruce Avery is Professor of Theatre Arts at SFSU, and a San Francisco actor and director. He is the Artistic Director of Bread & Butter Theatre Co. His PhD is from UC Santa Cruz, where he also worked as Dramaturge for Shakespeare Santa Cruz. His recent directing credits include a devised pandemic radio show, Learning Alone. Also Twelfth Night for African American Shakespeare Company, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Marisol, Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and Much Ado About Nothing at SFSU, along with the world premiere of Funeral Game, As You Like It, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Bread & Butter Theatre Co. Acting credits include Tom Sargeant in David Hare’s Skylight, Danielson in The North Pool, Rothko in Red, (Bread & Butter Theatre Co) Peter Quince in Midsummer, Polonius in Hamlet, Old Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, and Dennis Shepard in The Laramie Project. As an acting teacher, he is certified in Chekhov Technique, and has studied the Meisner Technique, Suzuki Movement, and stage combat. As a scholar, he has published acclaimed articles on James Joyce, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kipling, and the pedagogy of Shakespeare.
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the fourth annual
FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 1-24, at Potrero Stage and simulcast! This
four-week “fringe style” new works festival features 17 productions
and 58 performances by talented theatre artists from across the
country including. Productions will be presented for 3-4 performances
at Potrero Stage (18th Street @ Arkansas). For more information or to
reserve in-person or online tickets, visit
https://playground-sf.org/freeplay
You may also like the following events from PlayGround:
- Next month, 1st August, 06:00 pm, PlayGround's 2025 Free-Play Festival, August 1-24 in San Francisco
- Next month, 1st August, 06:00 pm, Free-Play Festival: La Cucaracha in San Francisco
- Next month, 2nd August, 06:00 pm, Free-Play Festival: Man of Tomorrow in San Francisco
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