PlayGround presents Season 32

2026 Comedy Fest

March 6th – March 29th, 2026

Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast & On-Demand

Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit

PlayGround acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush (RAH-my-toosh) Ohlone (oh-LOW-nee) and Lisjan (lih-SHAH-n) Ohlone, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula and East Bay, respectively. As the past and present Indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone and Lisjan have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. We recognize the historic injustice of the forcible removal of the Ohlone people from their ancestral lands, and that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the Ancestors, Elders and Relatives of the Ramaytush and Lisjan Communities and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. We honor the storytellers of the Ohlone and are grateful for our ability to share and uplift Indigenous stories and those of other historically marginalized communities.

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PlayGround’s Anti-Racist Policy

PlayGround recognizes the impact of racial oppression within society and the American Theater and that we have been complicit in White Supremacy culture. Our goal is to co-create safety for our community by identifying and interrupting instances of racism and all forms of oppression when we witness them, through specific actions rooted in the principles of anti-racism and accessibility. In its endeavor to address the implications of our history, PlayGround is committed to its compliance with the following fundamental rights:

• The recognition of inherent dignity and worth of each human being.
• The recognition of equality of all human beings.
• Recognition of rights of ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic and religious groups.
• Equality and non-discrimination.

PlayGround’s Anti-Racist Policy applies to: all members of the PlayGround community, including employees, independent contractors, volunteers, audience members, donors, and general members of the community.

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THE SHOWS
(alphabetical order by title)

A Stab In The Dark
presented by The Red Herrings
Sun, March 15 at 2:30pm; Sun, March 22 at 7pm; Mon, March 23 at 8:30pm

The Bomb
by Dana Schwartz
Thurs, March 26 8:30pm; Sat, March 28 at 2:30pm; Sat, March 28 at 7pm; Sun, March 29 at 5:30pm

Culturally Distressed: Live
by Loic Pichot and Miyoko Sakatani
Fri, March 27 at 7pm; Sat, March 28 at 8:30pm; Sun, March 29 at 4pm

Emil Amok, Anchorman: The News Made Me Do It
by Emil Guillermo
Sat, March 14 at 4pm; Sun, March 15 at 7pm; Mon, March 16 at 7pm; Thurs, March 19 7pm

Fancy Seeing You Here
by Jiaxin Zheng
Sat, March 14 at 8:30pm; Sun, March 15 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 21 at 7pm

Gamesome Frolic: Improvised Comedy in the Stylings of the Bard
by Diana Brown, Radhika Rao, and Mick Shaffer
Sun, March 8 at 7pm; Sat, March 14 at 7pm; Sun, March 15 at 5:30pm

Give a Little Bit More
by Ben Visini
Thurs, March 12 7pm; Sun, March 22 at 8:30pm; Sun, March 29 at 7pm

I Am Trying to Think of Some Way to Make the Title Shorter Because This One Is Way Too Long I Think We Can All Agree
by Lee Archer
Sat, March 7 at 2:30pm; Sun, March 8 at 5:30pm & 8:30pm; Fri, March 13 at 7pm

I’m So Glad I Caught The Vomit In My Hand: A Show About Parenting
by Torey Bookstein
Fri, March 6 at 7pm; Sat, March 7 at 4pm; Sun, March 8 at 2:30pm; Mon, March 9 at 7pm

Johnny Lonely’s Unhappy Hour
by Joshua Brody
Thurs, March 26 7pm; Fri, March 27 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 28 at 4pm

Munch Ado About Improv
 produced by The Fists of Improv (18+, Adults Only)
Fri, March 6 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 7 at 7pm; Sat, March 14 at 2:30pm

The Naked Stage presented by Improv Playhouse of San Francisco
produced by Tim Orr
Thurs, March 19 8:30pm; Sat, March 21 at 2:30pm and 8:30 pm, and Sun, March 22 at 5:30pm.

Off-Topic Improv
Sat, March 7 at 8:30pm; Sun, March 8 at 4pm; Mon, March 9 at 8:30pm

SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND
by Diana Brown, Josh Caldwell, Gordon Downs, Mark Gardiner, Sara Goetz, Matt Haley, and Erin Souza
Sun, March 22 at 4pm; Sat, March 28 at 5:30pm; Sun, March 29 at 2:30pm & 8:30pm

Tansu and Kirsten’s Very Best Friendship Show
by Tansu Philip and Kirsten Baird
Fri, March 13 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 14 at 5:30pm; Sun, March 15 at 4pm

Unstuck
by Olivia Levine
Fri, March 20 at 7pm; Sat, March 21 at 4pm; Mon, March 23 at 7pm

What’s Your Protest Song? An Improvised Musical
by Melanie DuPuy and The Wypspers
Sat, March 7 at 5:30pm; Thurs, March 12 8:30pm; Mon, March 16 at 8:30pm

Women Off-Colour
by Alondra Rios, Anelga Hajjar, and Mantra Radhakrishnan
Fri, March 20 at 8:30pm; Sat, March 21 at 5:30pm; Sun, March 22 at 2:30pm

This live stream is produced under a SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement.

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area, Theatre Communications Group, A.R.T./New York, the League of Chicago Theatres, and a Partner Organization of the National New Play Network (NNPN).

BIOGRAPHIES

LEXI ADSIT (Off-Topic Improv) is a fierce multi-hyphenate writer-producer-comedienne, currently Executive Director at Peacock Rebellion.

LEE ARCHER (I Am Trying to Think of Some Way to Make the Title Shorter Because This One Is Way Too Long I Think We Can All Agree), is a theatrical performer, materializing words on stage, solo, at international fringe festivals and such, California-based. One audience member described Lee Archer as a “dada monologist,” and Lee has been on the fence about mentioning it in his artist bio ever since. Still is. Please check out audience testimonials and a trailer, and sign up for Lee Archer’s mailing list, at www.leearcherswebsite.com, and follow Lee Archer on Instagram at @leearcherssocialmediahandle.

KIRSTEN BAIRD (Tansu and Kirsten’s Very Best Friendship Show) is an Asian-American actor, writer, model, and improviser born and raised in Palo Alto, CA. With two decades of stage and screen experience, she has trained extensively in improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She has performed in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and continues to bring her sharp comedic instincts to both scripted and unscripted work. Her performance style combines playful physicality with nuanced character work, drawing from her roots in Bay Area theatre and her comedy training in Los Angeles.

JOSHUA BRODY and BRIAN LOHMANN (Johnny Lonely’s Unhappy Hour). Joshua Raoul Brody and Brian Lohmann have been collaborating since the early ’80s, when they worked together in Faultline Improv. They were founding members of BATS Improv, and continue to perform and teach there.

DIANA BROWN (SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND: An Improvised Cyberpunk Adventure, Gamesome Frolic- Improvised Comedy in the Stylings of the Bard), Fancy Seeing You Here. Diana is a performer in Gamesome Frolic, and the director and producer of SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND, a cyberpunk adventure, blending futuristic world-building with grounded, character-driven storytelling. And a performer in Fancy Seeing You Here. She is also a professional actor and improv artist who performs, teaches and directs at theaters and festivals across the United States and internationally. She’s enjoyed sold out appearances at San Francisco Sketchfest.

JOSH CALDWELL (SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND: An Improvised Cyberpunk Adventure) began his improv journey training in 2024 at Made Up Theater in Fremont, California where he performs in troupes Foreverboy and Country Club in an attempt to satiate his cravings for storytelling.

FARYN DAVIS (Fancy Seeing You Here), spends her days chasing dopamine through D&D campaigns, improv stages, and perfectly-timed dissociative episodes.

GORDON DOWNS  (SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND: An Improvised Cyberpunk Adventure) is based at Made Up Theatre in Fremont and is delighted to hack his lifelong love of science fiction into the mainframe that is narrative improv.

FISTS OF IMPROV (Munch Ado About Improv). The Fists of Improv is a BIPOC-forward, LGBTQ+ inclusive improv troupe that creates bold, sensual, and playful theater exploring kink and connection. Their work blends immersive storytelling and mindful creativity to break boundaries and engage audiences fully. The troupe centers consent, radical accessibility, and community participation in every performance. Members bring diverse performance backgrounds and a shared passion for provocative, humorous, and heartfelt improv that celebrates identity and intimacy.

MARK GARDINER (SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND: An Improvised Cyberpunk Adventure) Mark regularly does short form improv shows with Made Up Theatre’s mainstage cast in Fremont, as well as with several long form groups in the area.

SARA GOETZ (SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND: An Improvised Cyberpunk Adventure)  delights in creative collaboration, performing long- and short-form improv around the Bay Area, and occasionally writing sketch comedy.

EMIL GUILLERMO (Emil Amok, Anchorman: The News Made Me Do it), he/him/they, is an award winning journalist, commentator and former host of “NPR’s All Things Considered,” turned standup comedian.

MATT HALEY (SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND: An Improvised Cyberpunk Adventure) is a veteran improvisor of 20+ years and cyberpunk nerd who seeks to condense fact from the vapor of nuance (but will probably just end up lost in the braindance).

MELANIE DUPUY (What’s Your Protest Song? An Improvised Musical), she/her, (Mel) is a screenwriter from Los Angeles with decades of experience in theatre, film and TV. Mel writes as a form of protest and a call for love. Her writing has been recognized by the Austin Film Festival, SlamDance and The Big Apple Screenwriting Competition. She’s also an actor and singer-songwriter who recently discovered musical improv and honestly, can’t get enough. Mel loves to collaborate with other improvisers and get into good trouble with What’s Your Protest Song?  The other players are The Wypspers: Jennifer Chan, Gabe Chaparro, Susan Kleinman, Eric Lamothe, Susan Quintanar and Musical Directors, Joshua Raoul Brody and Gail Gallagher.

RAYMOND ABEL GUITERREZ (Latini-DUH!™), he/him, is a queer Latino bilingual performer based in Los Angeles, born and raised in South Texas. A true Tejano, he began performing professionally at 13 and has since worked across stage, film, and sketch comedy. Groundlings-trained in improv and sketch, Raymond’s comedy blends bold physicality, character-driven storytelling, and campy queer aesthetics, all rooted in his love for Latine and Tejano culture. Whether on stage or screen, he is dedicated to bringing more joyful, authentic Latino stories into the mainstream.

MICHAEL FLEMING (Fancy Seeing You Here) has been performing in and around the Bay Area ever since he fell in love with improv almost 20 years ago: on the BATS stage, and as a company member of groups such as The Un-Scripted Theater Company, Out of Line, The Incidentalists, Operavised, Just a Musical, and All That Jazz.

ANGELA HAJJAR (Women Off-Colour), she/her, is a Chicago-based actor and award-winning playwright. Recent credits: The Singularity Play (Jackalope Theatre), Selling Kabul (Northlight Theatre), Tragedy Averted (iO). Her original play, Janitor’s Baby was the recipient of the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Award and her new play Sex Talk I Never Had is currently in development at Avalanche Theatre. She is also an Armenian content creator! Follow her @hayerenhayeren123. 

NEIL HARKINS (Off-Topic Improv) is an indie theater maker, cloned from The Borg–Bjorn Borg.

KATE HETLAND (Off-Topic Improv) doesn’t take shit from anyone. Except for her cat. And maybe her improv team.

GEORGE HIGGINS (Fancy Seeing You Here) has performed/is performing Improv at Berkeley Rep, Leela, Stone Soup, and the incidentalists; he currently teaches Improv at Berkeley Rep and Berkeley Law.

CAMERON JOE (Off-Topic Improv) is a zen half-cat/half-rock-climber/half-choir-boy, and 100% physical comedy.

OLIVIA LEVINE (Unstuck), she/her, is a queer actor, comedian and writer. She received her B.A. in Theatre from Barnard College. Other training includes the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London). Olivia brought her solo show, Unstuck, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024, where the show received several four and five star reviews. She then took the show Off-Broadway to SoHo Playhouse in 2025 for a three week long run. Olivia’s first short film, Let Liv (dir. Erica Rose), premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. She wrote and starred in the project alongside Christine Taylor (Zoolander, Dodgeball) and Rosaline Elbay (Ramy, The Diplomat). 

JESS LOGINOV (Off-Topic Improv) is a stay-at-home mother of one (cat). Moose will not be joining us on stage.

KEITH MARQUEZ (Fancy Seeing You Here)  is a bay area comedian. He has been entertaining audiences all over the bay area and wants everyone to have a good time.

ETHAN MENDOZA (Off-Topic Improv) is an Alameda County Public Defender by day, and anything you want on the stage.

TIM ORR (Improv Playhouse of San Francisco), he/him, has improvised since 1988 with many San Francisco and international groups.  In 2009, he founded the acclaimed troupe Improv Playhouse of San Francisco. Tim has appeared in numerous plays in San Francisco, and received critical acclaim for his leading roles in the improvised feature films Suckerfish and Security. Nationally, Tim has performed and taught improvisation at the American Conservatory Theatre and numerous other cities. Internationally, he has performed and taught in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beijing, Beirut, Belgium, Berlin, Bucharest, Dubai, Hamburg, Helsinki,  Lisbon, London, Lyon, Mallorca, Oslo, Paris,  Saudi Arabia, Shanghai, Sofia, Stockholm, Tel Aviv and more.

TANSU PHILIP (Tansu and Kirsten’s Very Best Friendship Show). Tansu Philip (she/her) is an actor, comedian, and writer with extensive training in improv and character-based performance. She trained at Upright Citizens Brigade in improv, musical improv, and sketch, and has performed on multiple house and indie teams since 2019. She has appeared in national campaigns for Teva and Urban Outfitters and is an award-winning screenwriter drawn to sharp, personal storytelling. Offstage, she co-founded and runs Viva La Boba, where managing a team of baristas has proven to be excellent long-form training. You can follow her on Instagram @tansuphilip

LOIC PICHOT (Culturally Distressed: Live), he/him, is a French comedian, writer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His award-winning short film Distressed screened at multiple U.S. festivals, and you can watch his queer comedy sketch series The Delusional Boys on social media. Loic co-hosts the cross-generational and cross-cultural podcast Culturally Distressed with Miyoko Sakatani, celebrating the humor and humanity of cultural differences and connections. You can follow him on social media @LoicPichot on Instagram/YouTube and @TheLoicPichot on TikTok.

MANTRA RADHAKRISHNAN (Women Off-Colour), she/any, is a playwright, director, and comedian originally from Bangalore, India. Her work was recently seen at 24HourPlays (Off-Broadway), Writers Theatre, Token Theatre, The Second City, The Road Theatre, Theo Ubique, Shattered Globe and Avalanche Theatre. Her plays have received recognition from the 2024 Agnes Nixon Playwriting award (winner), Fulbright Creative Writing scholarship (alternate finalist), Ojai Playwrights Conference (semifinalist), Inkslinger Playwriting Competition (semifinalist), SheNYC festival (finalist) and Boise Contemporary Theatre’s Playwriting festival (finalist). She was a Victor Wong Fellow at the Second City, Under Construction Playwright at The Road Theatre, and currently performs sketch every Wednesday at The Comedy Clubhouse!

RADHIKA RAO (Gamesome Frolic- Improvised Show in the Stylings of the Bard) straddles the shakespeare and unscripted world. She’s currently in the lead role, at A.C.T’s touring production of Timon of Athens.

THE RED HERRINGS (A Stab In The Dark), The Red Herrings are six improvisers (Alusha Mamchak, Alva Ackley, Jacob Rosok, Josh Miller, Ross Lefstin, and Sam Miceli) dedicated to crafting long-form improvised theater. With over 50 years of combined experience, all members trained and performed in student shows at BATS, recently coming together in the Improvised Noir Performance Lab taught by Brian Lohmann. Alusha trained and performed TheaterSports with Impro Australia; Sam has performed at UnScripted Theater and guested with BATS’ main stage company. The ensemble collaboratively devised “A Stab in the Dark,” blending elements of farce, family drama, and classic murder mysteries into a single continuous narrative.

ALONDRA RIOS (Women Off-Colour), she/her, is a Puerto Rican director, actor, and playwright. She studied at Northwestern University with a B.A. in Theatre and a certificate in Music Theatre and Playwriting. She was a proud cast member of The Mee-ow Comedy Group at Northwestern, performing improv and sketch comedy. She won the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Award at Northwestern for her play El Hilo del Pastel. Recent acting credits include: American Music Theatre Project: Desaparecidas(Northwestern University), Side by Side by Sondheim (Oil Lamp Theatre), and Las Borinqueñas (Vision Latino Theatre); She is also a devoted corgi mom!

MIYOKO SAKATANI (Culturally Distressed: Live), is an actor, writer, and producer from San Francisco with decades of experience across stage, film, and television. A second-generation Japanese American, her work often explores identity, family, and representation. Together with Loic Pichot, they co-host the cross-generational podcast Culturally Distressed, celebrating the humor and humanity of cultural differences and connections. Culturally Distressed is their second collaboration after their short film, Distressed.

DANA SCHWARTZ (The Bomb), she/her, is an award winning Los Angeles writer, director, actress, designer & producer. She has directed plays across the country, most recently “Tune In” at Theatre of NOTE and “here comes the night” at Moving Arts, as well as productions at The Road Theater, Topanga Arts Center, Lyric Hyperion, Fierce Backbone and the Victory Theater. Her play “@Playaz” was an O’Neill Finalist and had its World Premiere in 2021. “Early Birds” premiered in 2019. “Presto!”, an O’Neill Semi-Finalist, was developed with The Workshop Theater in New York, and was part of the Hudson Valley Theater Festival in May. “The Grotto” was part of last summer’s Valdez Theater Conference in Alaska, and “First Time” was part of the Lanford Wilson New Play Festival, and “The April & Mr. Bigglesworth Super Special Funtime Show” was produced by Thrown Stone in Ct. She has also had plays at Morgan Wixon, Surfside Theater, Nomad Theatre, Parish Players, Eclectic Theater, Echo Theatre, Theatre of NOTE, LeftEdge, Sky Pilot, REDcat LA, Disney Hall, Segerstrom Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Curtis Theater and LACMA. As an actress she has performed around the world, most recently in the 50 character immersive play “Convention” as Francis Perkins. Dana is the Program Director of the MADLab New Play Development Program at Moving Arts.

DANIELLE SCIOCCHETTI (Off-Topic Improv) is an ex-rollerderby karaoke fiend with fabulous teeth.

MICK SHAFFER (Gamesome Frolic- Improvised Show in the Stylings of the Bard) was a main stage performer with New York City’s The First Amendment Comedy Improv Troupe. While with the First Amendment, Mick performed with Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, John Leguizamo and Kathy Kinney.

ERIN SOUZA (SCRIPT///NOT/FOUND: An Improvised Cyberpunk Adventure) is a lifelong Bay Area resident who writes, performs, and creates animation videos as often as time permits.

SPENCER TOMIMATSU (Fancy Seeing You Here) has have had the honor of doing improv for the past 15 years.

BEN VISNI (Give a Little Bit More), he/him, is a Bay Area-based piano-playing comedy musician, and a serious musician when the jokes don’t land. His piano rock/musical theater songs aim to make you listen, laugh, and think, as well as validate his choice to take music theory classes. Past credits/shows include SF Sketchfest (2023/2026), Fanime (2024), “I Love This Song” with The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, and Ruckus Revival. He is the in-house musician/comedian for About Last Night Storytelling, and the host of the Neck of the Woods Open Mic.

DIO RAMIREZ (Give a Little Bit More), they/them, has worked across the bay area as a theater technician and lighting programmer. They’ve worked with Berkeley Rep, SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players, and Smuin Ballet. They are the lighting supervisor at UC Berkeley’s department of Theater, Dance, and Performance studies.

JIAXIN ZHENG (Fancy Seeing You Here), she/her, is an actor, writer, filmmaker, and improv artist. She made her theater debut with PlayGround in Distanced Dates.

PRODUCTION & STAFF

BRITTANY MELLERSON (Sound Designer/Lighting Designer), all pronouns, is an East coast native and a graduate of Point Park University’s Conservatory Program, with a BFA in Theatrical Lighting & Sound Design. Brittany is the Resident Lighting designer for Lamplighters Music Theatre, SF PlayGround, and the Telluride Film Festival. Recent credits include lighting design for LMT’s Princess Ida, PlayGround’s Solofest and sound design for Mothers of the Bride. Throughout the pandemic, Brittany has been working to source and produce equitable employment avenues in the Bay Area for Black designers and technicians. “The world is burning. Learn its truth.”

JIM KLEINMANN (Artistic Director & Co-Founder), he/him, co-founded PlayGround in 1994, along with playwright Brighde Mullins and director Denise Shama, and has served as Artistic Director since 1996. For PlayGround, he has provided artistic and administrative leadership for the past twenty-four seasons, developing PlayGround’s unique array of new playwright and new play incubator programs, including Monday Night PlayGround, the PlayGround Festival of New Works, the full-length play Commissioning Initiative, the New Play Production Fund, Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays, and most recently the Innovator Incubator.  For PlayGround, he has directed more than one hundred short and full-length plays, including works by Garret Jon Groenveld, Aaron Loeb, Geetha Reddy, Lauren Yee, Katie May, and many others. Recent directing and dramaturgy credits include David Steele’s Vignettes on Love and Ruben Grijalva’s Value Over Replacement. He is a veteran arts administrator with more than thirty years of experience, including stints leading Traveling Jewish Theatre, Smuin Ballet, and Berkeley Symphony, and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

PLAYGROUND, California’s leading playwright incubator, provides unique development opportunities for the Bay Area’s, Los Angeles’ and now New York’s 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 250 early career playwrights, developing and staging more than 1000 of their original short plays through the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series and the PlayGround Festival. PlayGround has also commissioned 90 new full-length plays by 60 of these writers through its Commissioning Initiative and, through the innovative New Play Production Fund, has directly facilitated the premiere of 34 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-four 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 Humana Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Lark’s Playwrights’ Week, New York International Fringe Festival, and 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.

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, and Playwrights Foundation, 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. For more information, visit https://potrerostage.org.

PlayGround Contributors

PlayGround is deeply grateful for the generous contributions of the many individuals, foundations, corporations and government agencies whose contributions make our work possible. This list reflects gifts of $125 or more committed between December 1, 2023 & December 6, 2024.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • Art Space Development Corporation • Avenue Greenlight • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • California Humanities • California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program • Creative Capacity Fund • Disney • Grants For The Arts • KFF • Koret Foundation • LA County Arts Commission • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • Rock Paper Scissors Landscape Inc. • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Paul Haahr, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, John H. Gilman, Sam Latham, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Just Play Productions, Linda Kremer, Ronald Whittier Family Foundation, Daniele Nathanson , Nitin, Molly Noble and Bob Guilbault, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, John J. Ruskin, Tom Swift, Malachy Walsh and Heather Robison, Janine Wilburn, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Phoenix Theatre SF, Hillary DeMartino, Paulette Donsavage, Regina S. Guggenheim, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Diane Leonard, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Dr. Gary W. London, Diane Sampson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Jeffrey Trescott, Anonymous

PATRON ($250-$499)

Nina Ball & Jon Tracy, Chris and Cindy Redburn, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Christian Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (3)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Mary E. Baird, Ms. Portia F. Bock, Cass Brayton, Sheila Collins, Joyce Dieda, Clint Fleener, Michael Fried, Mrs. Judith Lynn Garcia, Anonymous, Gina Harris, Ms. Sharlene Hartman, Mr. Stanley William Hathaway, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Ms. Mildred Inez Lewis, Anonymous, Paris McCarthy, Kimberly Ridgeway, Ms. Jessica Rofé, Margo Rofé, Carolina Rojas Moretti, Katie Ryan, Louel Senores, Alex M. Shafer, Christine Sheppard, Stan Stone, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Scott Lebus & Susannah Wise

To contribute to PlayGround, visit https://playground-sf.org/contribute or contact PlayGround Associate Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org or by phone at (415) 992-6677.

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PlayGround-SF Writers Pool 2025-26

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Paul Braverman, Robyn Brooks, Madeleine Butler, Melina Cohen-Bramwell, Jediah Craig, Laura Domingo, Garret Groenveld, KT Frances Hartline, Carl Andrew Johnson, Ruth Kirschner, Greg Lam, Justin P. Lopez, Daniel Martinez Jr, Gillian O’Leary, Richard Perez, James Perry, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Jan Probst, Kimberly Ridgeway, George Rose, Sophie Ruf, Sanjit Sengupta, Greg Sigur, Chris Steele, Stan Stone, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Maury Zeff

PlayGround Resident Playwrights

San Francisco: Monique Adams, Madeleine Butler*, Laura Domingo**, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Daniel Martinez Jr., Christian Wilburn; Los Angeles: Summer Broyhill, Amy Ellenberger, Paris Herbert-Taylor, Jonathan Josephson, Mercedes Segesvary, Baylee Shlichtman*; New York: Saiya Floyd, Howard Ho, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Wade Lawrence Hollomon, Lyra Nalan, Camron Wright*; Chicago: Anne Brady*, Jessie Bond, alfonzo kahlil, Juliet Kang Huneke, Karissa Murrell Myers, Katherine Swan.

* Playwrights under commission for the 2025-26 season
** June Anne Baker Award Winner

PlayGround Company

Molly Aaronson-Gelb, Angel Adedokun, Linda Amayo-Hassan, Liz Anderson, Rinabeth Apostol, Michael Asberry, Michael Barrett Austin, Mary Baird, April Ballesteros, Tanika Baptiste, Aldo Billingslea, Julia Brothers, Nicole Apostol Bruno, Lizzie Calogero, Ron Campbell, Nancy, Carlin, Joy Carlin, Ben Chau-Chiu, Zoe Chien, Tessa Corrie, David Cramer, Will Dao, Anne Darragh, Roshni Datta, Natalia Delgado, Dodds Delzell, Livia Gomes Demarchi, Carolyn Doyle, Leticia Duarte, Nora el Samahy, Rebecca Ennals, Britney Frazier, Michael French, Claire, Ganem, Norman Gee, Douglas B. Giorgis, Linda Giron, Amy Glazer, Leon Goertzen, Cindy Goldfield, BW Gonzalez, GG Grilli, Rudy Guerrero, Karina Gutierrez, Rosie Hallett, Katherine Hamilton, Matthew Hanjoong, Eric Fraisher Hayes, Brian Herndon, Champagne Hughes, J Jha, Christian, Jimenez, Colin Johnson, Jacinta Kaumbulu, Emily Keyishian, Jennifer King, Tessa Koning-Martinez, Randy Lee, Danielle Levin, Amy Lizardo, Jeffrey Lo, Gwen Loeb, Charisse Loriaux, George Maguire, Melanie Marshall, Alicia Mason, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Julia McNeal, Sam Misner, Eiko Moon-Yamamoto, Brady Morales-Woolery, Carolina Morones, Lisa Morse, Khary L. Moye, Sakura Nakahara, Molly Noble, Karen Offereins, Annette Oliveira, Soren Oliver, Ely Orquiza, Tony Ortega, Doyle Ott, June Palladino, Carla Pantoja, Louis Parnell, Jed Parsario, Michael, Phillis, Krystle Piamonte, Rebecca Pingree, Stephanie Prentice, Ezra Reaves, Ginny Reed, Cathleen Riddley, Kimberly Ridgeway, Katja Rivera, Adrian Roberts, Stacy Ross, Adam Roy, Katie Rubin, Patrick Russell, Miyoko Sakatani, Louel Senores, Robert Sicular, Dave Sikula, Jeunee Simon, M. Graham Smith, Ken Sonkin, Lauren Spencer, Teddy Spencer, Chris Steele, Howard Swain, Jomar Tagatac, Emilie Talbot, Danielle Thys, Isabel Anne To, Jon Tracy, Dane Troy, Mark Truitt, Liam Vincent, Ian Walker, Maryssa Wanlass, Tracy Ward, Reggie D. White, Christian Wilburn, Wayne Wong, Elena Wright, Hector Zavala

PlayGround Staff

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Lana Richards, Director of Development 
Jonathan Josephson, Director of Marketing & Communications 
Stephanie Prentice, Education Coordinator
Tanika Baptiste, MNP Executive Producer 
Norman Gee, MNP Associate Producer 
Katja Rivera, MNP Associate Producer 
Zoe Chien, MNP Associate Producer & Casting Director 
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer & Technical Director 
K’Zhane McGill, Box Office Manager 
Donna Fondjo, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Jordan Don, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Juliana Morgado Brito, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Devin Cunningham, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 

PlayGround Ambassadors

Julia Brothers, Jordan Carlson, Ben Chau-Chiu , Julia Crowley, Sheri Flanders, Claire Ganem, Eric Geller, Monica Ho, Tony Kim, Christine Liao, AJ Lily, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Andrew Perez, Ivan Rivas, Miyoko Sakatani, Braedyn Youngberg

PlayGround Equity Workgroup

Diana Burbano, Victoria Evans Erville, Norman Gee, Jim Kleinmann, Brittany Mellerson, Tiana Randall-Quant, Katja Rivera, M. Graham Smith.

PlayGround Board

Stephanie Prentice, Chair 
James A. Kleinmann, President 
Christian Wilburn, Vice President
Nitin, Treasurer
Ben Cain, Secretary
Regina Guggenheim, Chair Emeritus
Tanvi Agrawal
Linda Amayo-Hassan
Julia Brothers
Howard Ho
Alex Kingsley
Rebecca Martinez
Kendall Phillips
Jessica June Rowe

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