PlayGround presents Season 27

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

Topic: “Reunification”

January 18, 2021 7pm PT

via Zoom Live Stream

Now and Then, We Lose Everything
by Lauren Gorski
Directed by Norman Gee
Jay……………………………………..………………..Aaron Wilton
Lex………………………………………….………..Karen Offereins

Sí Se Maybe
by Victoria Evans Erville
Directed by Joy Carlin
Ada………………………………………..Leontyne Mbele-Mbong
Caroline……………………………………..…………..Elena Wright

Shadow Blobs
by Sean Wong-Westbrooke
Directed by Giselle Boustani-Fontenele
Isabella…………………………………………….Mary Baird
Nicole……………………………………………….Monica Ho
Monster…………………………………………….Gwen Loeb

Hemingway in Place
by Meghan Maugeri
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Ernest…………………………………………Joseph O’Malley
Hadley……..………………………………………Rosie Hallett
Pauline………………………………Livia Gomes Demarchi

My Last Two Brain Cells
by Eteya Trinida
Directed by Molly Noble
Kit……………………………………..….Jeunee T. Simon
Abbey………………………………………..Krystal Mosley

Betrayal at the Zone of Death
by Christian Wilburn
Directed by Tessa Corrie
Narrator………………………………………….Dodds Delzell
Rick.………………………………….Michael Barrett Austin
Bob………………………………….Brady Morales Woolery
Melissa…………..……………………………………Neiry Rojo
Judy………………….……………………………….Lyndsy Kail

Stage Manager: Sarah Gasser
Sound Design: Sarah Gasser
Visual Design: Colin Johnson

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

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group,
and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network (NNPN).

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

VICTORIA EVANS ERVILLE (Sí Se Maybe), she/her, is a Dramatist Guild member in her second season as a pool writer with PlayGround. Last season two of her plays, Catch and The Verona Matchmakers, were selected for the Monday Night Reading Series. Her full-length play The Lies That Bind was a semi-finalist in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2019 and received a staged reading with 3Girls Theatre in 2020. In 2019 her short play A Mother’s Heart received a staged reading at the Women’s Theatre Festival, North Carolina, and ‘The Test’ was awarded Second Place at Piano Fight’s ShortLived VIII Festival -week 8. Her full-length play The Music of Mothers will receive a reading in 2021 with 3Girls Theatre, where Ms. Evans Erville is a 2019-2020 Brady Fellow.

LAUREN GORSKI (Now and Then, We Lose Everything), she/her, is an award-winning writer and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Exposition Review. She writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, and stageplays. Her plays have been performed for the Hollywood Fringe, PlayGround, PianoFight’s ShortLived series, and more. She is a past playwright-in-residence with PlayGround San Francisco. Her new rom com Zoom play “While You Were In Quarantine” will be debuting on February 13 on a computer screen near you. Learn more here: bit.ly/WYWIQ

MEGHAN MAUGERI (Hemingway in Place), she/her, is a member of PlayGround Writers Company and Pear Playwrights Guild. Her full-length dramedy, POLAR BEAR SOCIETY, will have a virtual reading in American Stage’s 21st Century Voices New Play Festival on January 22nd at 7:30 p.m. ET. Her produced plays include MOTHERS OF THE BRIDE, THE BAD GOOD PLANET, and GLINDA THE MIDDLE-AGED WITCH. Her film HEADWIND also won Best Short Narrative at The World Indie Film Festival. A former middle school teacher, she graduated from Boston College. For more information, please visit www.meghanmaugeri.com.    

ETEYA TRINIDAD (My Last Two Brain Cells), she/her/ella, is a playwright, stage manager, and theater artist. Her full-length play, La Sirena, was recognized as a finalist for the 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and received a staged reading at Ross Valley Players. She wrote and directed her first play, La Mestiza’s Colors, with the College Players at the University of San Francisco. Since then, her work has been seen at San Francisco Olympians Festival, Amios West, 3Girls Theatre, and Theatre is the Cure, among others. This is her first year as a member of the PlayGround Writers Pool and her second play of the season.

CHRISTIAN WILBURN (Betrayal at the Zone of Death), he/him, discovered his love for storytelling as a young boy growing up in San Francisco. At twenty-four, and still in San Francisco, Christian views writing as his most authentic form of communication. He writes fiction, plays, screenplays, poems and twitter threads about the Golden State Warriors. Last year was his first year in the Playground Writer’s Pool, where he was selected for in Best of Playground 24. On top of the Writer’s Pool, Christian is a member of the Playground Playwright’s Residency Program and is pursuing his MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. 

SEAN WONG-WESTBROOKE (Shadow Blobs), he/him, is a playwright and freelance writer. His work focuses on shining a light on often overlooked characters. One such work, his fantasy tv series pitch, The Gallows, was recognized as a semifinalist in the 2020 ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch Competition. Sean continues to write screenplays like a fiend for contests. This is his first season in PlayGround’s Writers Pool!

ACTORS

MICHAEL BARRETT AUSTIN (Betrayal at the Zone of Death, “Rick”), he/him. In addition to being a member of (and frequent performer with) local companies Just Theater and PlayGround, Michael has worked with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, SF Playhouse, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Center Repertory Theatre, San Jose Stage,  42nd Street Moon, Central Works, TheatreFIRST, and many others. Michael has also starred in several independent films, appeared on television series and been featured in many commercials and industrials. He is married to a fantastic woman named Emily and is the father of a clever daughter named Lucille.

MARY E. BAIRD (Shadow Blobs, “Isabella”), she/her, is pleased to be a part of Monday Night PlayGround. She continues to promote An Evening With Ellen that she performs in and co-created. Mary also continues to work for UCD Medical School and Kaiser as an Actor.  

DODDS DELZELL (Betrayal at the Zone of Death, “Narrator”), he/me. Over the last 25+ years Dodds has appeared in more shows throughout the Bay Area than he can remember.  BFA from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is a Proud Member of Actors Equity Association. 

LIVIA GOMES DEMARCHI (Hemingway in Place, “Pauline”), she/her, is a Bay Area actor and teaching artist. Recent credits: Lola in the World Premiere of Ghosts of Bogotá at Alter Theater, Tania in Native Gardens at Center Rep and Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with SF Shakes. Other companies: SF Playhouse, Crowded Fire, Magic Theater, Playwrights Foundation, BRAVA and Playground. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Theater, where she developed a bilingual solo piece Quem Eu?. She has also trained at A.C.T., and at Macunaíma in her home country of Brasil. 

MONICA HO (Shadow Blobs, “Nicole”), she/her, is currently sheltering-in-place in Oakland, CA. She is a recent graduate of the American Conservatory Theatre MFA program, class of 2020. Regional credits include Top Girls (American Conservatory Theater); The Good Person of Szechuan (California Shakespeare Theater); Noises Off (SF Playhouse); The Taming (Marin Shakespeare Company); Crane (Ferocious Lotus Theater Company); Shiner (FaultLine Theater). Monica is the winner of the 2016 San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for her work in In Love and Warcraft (Custom Made Theater). In October 2020 she just finished producing, directing, and performing a one-woman play about legendary silver-screen actress Anna May Wong [China Doll, by Elizabeth Wong]. @1monicaho

ROSIE HALLET (Hemingway in Place, “Hadley”), she/her, is a Playground Company member and happy to be back on the virtual stage! She was last seen in “The Gravedigger’s Wife” by Martha Soukup in Best of Playground 24 and in “Sapience” by Diana Burbano.

LINDSAY KAIL (Betrayal at the Zone of Death, “Judy”)

GWEN LOEB (Shadow Blobs, “Monster”), she/her, is an award winning actress who has been featured in theaters across the Bay Area. She has been a company member with PlayGround for 21 years. During the pandemic Gwen is mostly focusing on her day job as the Executive Director of the Arts for Oakland Kids foundation; she will be hosting a telethon-style event on 2/6 to raise urgently needed funds for Bay Area artists and arts organizations. For more information go to www.artsforoaklandkids.org

LEONTYNE MBELE-MBONG (Sí Se Maybe, “Ada”), she/her, is delighted to return to Playground. Most recent shows: King Lear live streamed with SF Shakes. Other favorites: Bull in a China Shop, Temple, and Breakfast with Mugabe with the Aurora; Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Word for Word, and title role in Medea (TBA Award), and Cleopatra in Antony & Cleopatra (TBA Award Finalist), Macbeth with African-American Shakespeare Company; Watch on the Rhine with Guthrie/Berkeley Rep, Top Girls with Shotgun Players, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Fences; Andromache, Candide,  Richard III (3 times), Twelfth Night, and Intimate Apparel (Mayme; ARTY Award, best supporting actress).  www.leontynembele-mbong.com 

BRADY MORALES-WOOLERY (Betrayal at the Zone of Death, “Bob”)

KRYSTAL MOSLEY (My Last Two Brain Cells, “Abbey”), she/her, comes all the way from Chicago, currently residing in LA and is super excited about the production this evening! Some of her credits include: “10 Virgins” with Chicago Dramatist, “Ruined” with Eclipse Theatre and “Blood Wedding” with Pursuit Productions. She would like to thank the Playground-LA cast, friends and family for their continued support!

KAREN OFFEREINS (Now and Then, We Lose Everything, “Lex”), she/her, first performed with MNP in 2016 and has enjoyed playing there ever since.  She was last seen in Custom Made Theatre’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, having previously performed there in The Pain and the Itch and M. Butterfly.  She was also seen in Elevada at Shotgun Players last Fall, having previously performed there in The Mousetrap, Top Girls, and Our Town.  Past credits include Two Mile Hollow (Ferocious Lotus), Phèdre (Cutting Ball Theater), The Potrero Nuevo Project (PlayGround), The Rules (SF Playhouse), and Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Big Funk, and No Exit (AtmosTheatre).

JOSEPH O’MALLEY (Hemingway in Place, “Ernest”), he/him,  is a proud member of Bay Area Playground.

NEIRY ROJO (Betrayal at the Zone of Death, “Melissa”), she/her, Neiry Rojo is a theatre artist interested in finding ways to challenge the status quo in the theatre industry. She has most recently worked as an actress with OurDigitalStories, PlayGround Zoom Fest, and Central Works. She has previously worked with San Francisco Playhouse, Z Space, Marin Theatre Company, Livermore Shakespeare Company, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, PianoFight, and more. She has directed for ShotzSF, PlayGround Zoom Fest, and Ross Valley Players. She has worked as a teaching artist with American Conservatory Theatre and is a PlayGround company member. Theatre belongs to all. Black Lives Matter.

JEUNEE T. SIMON (My Last Two Brain Cells, “Kit”)

AARON WILTON (Now and Then, We Lose Everything, “Jay”), he/him, is an award-winning actor, voice-over artist and motion-capture artist, known for small roles in film (Jexi, The Boat Builder), television (Criminal Minds, Sunset Glory) and video games (Mafia: Definitive Edition, Watch Dogs 2, Godfather 2, Battlefield: Hardline), as well as commercials with Taco Bell, Xfinity, Wells Fargo, Blue Shield, Charles Schwab, Chase, Cisco, Adobe, EA Games, Pixar, Tejava and US Cellular.  Notable stage shows include George Street Playhouse’s “Inspecting Carol” (with Peter Scolari & Dan Lauria), Aurora Theatre Company’s “John Gabriel Borkman” (with Karen Grassle), the lead in the World Premiere of Hudson Stage Company’s “After All” (with Broadway’s Walter Charles & Susan Pellegrino) and the Western Premiere of “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” at San Jose Stage Company. 

ELENA WRIGHT (Sí Se Maybe, “Caroline”), she/her, is a bay area actor, teacher, fight/intimacy choreographer, and director. Previous credits include The Language Archive, Frost/Nixon, and Silent Sky (Theatreworks), Pericles, Shakespeare’s Will, Much Ado About Nothing, Three Musketeers, Othello (BATCC award best actress), 12th Night, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, The Liar, The Spanish Tragedy, and Richard III (Marin Shakespeare), Red Velvet (SF Playhouse), Betrayal, A Doll’s House, In the Next Room, and The Scene (Capital Stage), The Verona Project (California Shakespeare Theatre), Venus in Fur (Pacific Repertory), The Winter’s Tale (Seattle Shakespeare). MFA University of Washington, BS Northeastern University.

DIRECTORS

GISELE BOUSTANI-FONTENELE (Director, Shadow Blobs), she/her, is a director, writer, and healer. She is a company member of PlayGround and Poltergeist Theatre Project. She directed The Julie Cycle in 2019, which the SF Chronicle said established “Poltergeist as a thrilling new entrant in the Bay Area’s experimental theatre scene.” She has directed with PlayGround’s Monday Night PlayGround, SFShotz, Running With Glitter, 3Girls Theatre Company, and more. She is an alumnus of PlayGround’s Directing Apprenticeship and Marin Theatre Company’s 9-month Artistic Direction Internship. Giselle makes theatre to create a space for radical communal healing and transcendence.

JOY CARLIN (Director, Sí Se Maybe), she/her. An actor, director and teacher at A.C.T. since 1969, she served as its Associate Artistic Director from 1987 – 1992. From 1981-1984 she was an Actor and Resident Director at the Berkeley Rep and served as its Interim Artistic Director from 1983-1984.  She most recently acted in Marin Theatre Company’s MARJORIE PRIME and THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE and directs at most Bay Area Theatres, most recently G.B.Shaw’s WIDOWERS’ HOUSES at Aurora Theatre, and DANCING LESSONS at Center Rep. She  can be seen on screen as The Lady On The Plane in Woody Allen’s BLUE JASMINE.

TESSA CORRIE (Director, Betrayal at the Zone of Death), she/her, is a queer and Latinx theater director based in the Bay Area. Her work is grounded in creating space for marginalized and underrepresented communities and narratives. She is a company member and ambassador at PlayGround SF. Her credits include work at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Center REPertory Company, Hillbarn Theatre, Pear Theatre, TheatreFirst, Shotgun Players, PianoFight, and AmiosWest.

NORMAN GEE (Director, Now and Then, We Lose Everything)

JIM KLEINMANN (Director, Hemingway in Place; 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.

MOLLY NOBLE (Director, My Last Two Brain Cells), she/her, is a PlayGrounder and hopes you will be too. She teaches at College of Marin. Her freelance theatre work has taken her to NYC, Boston, Boulder and Chicago but she loves our Bay Area theatre community. She is working with students and community actors on a gently interactive devised Zoom piece for the Spring entitled “Windows.”  Who knows what will happen?  Bringing audience into the storytelling game is one of her goals. Walking super long distances in new places is another.  www.mollynoble.com

PRODUCTION & STAFF

ALDO BILLINGSLEA (Associate Producer), a long-time PlayGround Company Member, has worked with PlayGround as actor, director, script reader and board member. As an actor, he has worked throughout the Bay with Cal Shakes, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, Center Rep, and Marin Shakespeare. He has served on boards with Arabian Shakespeare, Gritty City Youth Repertory and the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre where he also served as Interim Artistic Director. Aldo is the Father William J. Rewak S.J. Professor of Theatre Arts at Santa Clara University.

SARAH GASSER (Resident Stage Manager & Sound Designer) joined PlayGround in 2017 and has staged managed for the Monday Night PlayGround series and PlayGround Festival. She stagemanages for companies around the Bay Area, including Brava and Bay Area Children’s Theatre. In her administrative capacities, she assists with PlayGround’s marketing, social media, communications, and website, as well as serving as assistant to the Artistic Director.

COLIN JOHNSON (Visual Designer) is a multi-hyphenate production artist who has sullied the grounds of the Bay Area arts since 2008. His work has been produced or featured at PlayGround, Pianofight, The Circus Center Cabaret, San Diego Comic-Con, Image Comics, Potrero Stage, Pint-Sized Plays, The Olympians Festival, Shotz, Shotgun Players, The Curran, and various theatre, radio and film venues throughout the country. He is the Artistic Director of Awesome Theatre, Chief Creative Officer at Troubleshoot Productions and an Instructor / Director / Designer at Circus Center. He makes movies until he gets too frustrated and makes theatre until he has panic attacks.

ANNIE STUART (Associate Artistic Director) has served as casting director for PlayGround for the past twenty-one seasons. In 2005, she was named PlayGround’s first Associate Director, recognizing her increased producing responsibilities, and was recently named Associate Artistic Director. As a freelance casting director, her other credits include Marin Theatre Company, Center REP, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco and Los Angeles Shakespeare Festivals, Brava! for Women In The Arts, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Z Space Studio, among others. For the camera, she has cast Falcon Crest, An Inconvenient Woman, Midnight Caller and The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. She has taught at San Jose State University, The Bennett Theatre Lab, Center REP, the College of Marin, Marin Theatre Company and for Theatre Bay Area.

PLAYGROUND, California’s leading playwright incubator, provides unique development opportunities for the Bay Area’s (and now Los Angeles’) 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 200 early career playwrights, developing and staging more than 850 of their original short plays through the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series and the PlayGround Festival. PlayGround has also commissioned 85 new full-length plays by 55 of these writers through its Commissioning Initiative and, through the innovative New Play Production Fund, has directly facilitated the premiere of 30 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, gifts of $125 or more committed between October 1, 2019 & October 19, 2020. 

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • Art Space Development Corporation • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • Creative Capacity Fund • The Fleishhacker Foundation • Goldman Sachs • Grants For The Arts • Koret Foundation • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shenson Foundation • The Shubert Foundation • Stanford University • The Tournesol Project • Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Zellerbach Family Foundation

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS 

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Daniel E. Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Jerome Joseph Gentes & Michael David Bourque, Regina S. Guggenheim, Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman, David Steele

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500–$4,999)

John H. Gilman, Tom Goetzl, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Anonymous (2)

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Kellie Abreu, John Gilman & Linda Kremer, Sandra Hess, Tracy Brown and Greg Holland, Rebecca Sloss Martinez, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Tom Bruett, Jessica Forbess, Joseph P. Gillach, Judy & Ruben Grijalva, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Dr. Gary W. London, Ms. Carol Louisa Owens, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Anonymous (3)

PATRON ($250-$499)

Rob Bailis, Paulette Donsavage & Deeje Cooley, Victoria Chong Der, Krystyna Finlayson, Michael Fried, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Jonathan Luskin & Leslie Katz, Anonymous

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Angel Adedokun, Mary E. Baird, Mr. William Bombria, Nara Dahlbacka, Victoria & Philippe Erville, Nancy K. Fishman, Steven W. Flannes, Ph.D., Ruben Grijalva, Diane and Mike Hernandez, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Kurt & Dianne Kleinmann, Amy Kelly Lauer, Kirby Sack and Pamela Merchant, Sondra Murphy, Ms. Madeline Daly Puccioni, Geetha Reddy, Barbara Sahm and Steven Winkel, Elizabeth Wright, Anonymous (2)

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PLAYGROUND COMPANY

PLAYGROUND WRITERS COMPANY 2020-21

Lynn Aylward, Cass Brayton+, Tom Bruett, Diana Burbano+, Madeleine Butler, Reg Clay, Rob Dario, Victoria Chong Der+, Victoria Evans Erville, Akaina Ghosh, Linda Maria Giron, Lauren Gorski, Garret Jon Groenveld+, Aaron Higareda, Sam Hurwitt, Tejahra Jacobs, Eddrick Jerome, Lisa Kang, Melissa Keith+, Anne Yumi Kobori, Molly Olis Krost, Samuel Levit, Jonathan Luskin+, Christopher Magee, Meghan Maugeri, Katie May+, Alanna McFall, Misao McGregor+, Bacilio Mendez II, Amissa Miller, Erin Marie Panttaja, Evelyn Jean Pine+, Madeline Puccioni, Annette Roman, Rebecca Schweitzer, Marissa Skudlarek, Martha Soukup, Chris Steele, Lisa Thompson, Eteya Trinidad, Leela Velautham+, Daysha Veronica+, Madison Wetzell, Christian Wilburn+, Sean Wong-Westbrooke
+ Resident Playwright

PLAYGROUND COMPANY 2020-21

Molly Aaronson-Gelb,  Angel Adedokun,  Patrick Alparone,  Liz Anderson,  Rinabeth Apostol,  Michael Asberry,  Michael Barrett Austin,  Mary Baird,  Aldo Billingslea,  Giselle Boustani-Fontenele,  Millie Brooks,  Julia Brothers,  Nicole Apostol Bruno,  Lizzie Calogero,  Ron Campbell,  Joy Carlin,  Nancy Carlin,  Desdemona Chiang,  Tessa Corrie,  David Cramer,  Will Dao,  Anne Darragh,  Dodds Delzell,  Livia Gomes Demarchi,  Carolyn Doyle,  Nora el Samahy,  Rebecca Ennals,  Britney Frazier,  Michael French,  Claire Ganem,  Sarah Gasser,  Norman Gee,  Douglas B. Giorgis,  Amy Glazer,  Cindy Goldfield,  BW Gonzalez,  Christian Haines,  Margo Hall,  Rosie Hallett,  Daryl Anthony Harper,  Eric Fraisher Hayes,  Brian Herndon,  Laura Humphrey,  J Jha,  Lyndsy Kail,  Dean Koya,  Danielle Levin,  Jeffrey Lo,  Gwen Loeb,  George Maguire,  Melanie Marshall,  Julia McNeal,  Sam Misner,  Brady Morales-Woolery,  Lisa Morse,  Molly Noble,  Karen Offereins,  Soren Oliver,  Joseph Patrick O’Malley,  Ely Sonny Orquiza,  Melissa Ortiz,  Doyle Ott,  June Palladino,  Carla Pantoja,  Louis Parnell,  Jed Parsario,  Michael Phillis,  Rebecca Pingree,  Stephanie Prentice,  Virginia Reed,  Cathleen Riddley,  Katja Rivera,  Adrian Roberts,  Neiry Rojo, Stacy Ross,  Adam Roy,  Katie Rubin,  Lindsey Marie Schmeltzer,  Louel Senores,  Robert Sicular,  Jeunee Simon,  M. Graham Smith,  Ken Sonkin,  Lauren Spencer,  Teddy Spencer,  Howard Swain,  Jomar Tagatac,  Emilie Talbot,  Danielle Thys,  Isabel To,  Jon Tracy,  Mark Rafael Truitt,  Liam Vincent,  Maryssa Wanlass,  Tracy Ward,  Reggie D. White,  Aaron Wilton,  Elena Wright

PLAYGROUND AMBASSADORS 2020-21

Aldo Billingslea (Co-Chair), Stephanie Prentice (Co-Chair), Tessa Corrie, Livia Demarchi, Britney Frazier, Cindy Goldfield, Jeffrey Lo, Gwen Loeb, George Maguire, Brady Morales-Woolery, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Melissa Ortiz, Katja Rivera, Jomar Tagatac, Aaron Wilton

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Annie Stuart, Associate Artistic Director
Aldo Billingslea, Associate Producer
Jacque Bugler, Production Manager
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager & Assistant to the Artistic Director
Edna Mira Raia, Theatre Management Fellow
Lana Richards, Development Fellow
Chris Steele, Communications Fellow

PLAYGROUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Regina Guggenheim, Chair
James A. Kleinmann, President
Jerome Joseph Gentes, VP-Communications
Emilie Talbot, VP-Development
Nitin, Treasurer
Victoria Evans Erville, Secretary
William Bivins
Eleanor Clement Glass
Keith Goldstein
Rebecca Martinez
Katie May
Rondrell McCormick
Stephanie Prentice
David Steele

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