PlayGround presents
The 5th Annual

PLAYGROUND SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

January 28 – February 13, 2022 7pm PT

Potrero Stage & Online Simulcast

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.

To learn about the legacy of the land you inhabit, visit Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land. To read the complete Land Acknowledgment Policy, click here.

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.

To read the complete Anti-Racist Policy, click here.

Manifesto
by Rotimi Agbabiaka
Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe

The Missing Songs**
by Linda Amayo-Hassan
Directed by Matt Kizer
Featuring live accompaniment by Matt Kizer & Dov Hassan
Presented in association with Native Writers’ Theater

DREAM Lover
by Summer Broyhill

 The Mark of the Minotaur
by Sharon Eberhardt
Directed by David Ford

Screamin’ from the Zoo
by Elijah Jalil Paz Fisher

Solo at the End of the World
by Vicki Juditz

The Winner
by M.J. Kang

Disability is a Drag!
by LOTUS BOY

Me Again
by Daniel Martinez
Directed by Austin Bean

Breed or Bust
by Joyful Raven
Directed by Jael Weisman

My Grandmother Wore Pants
by Chris Steele

Stage Manager: Kelli Westad

ASL Interpreter (2/5 & 2/13, Disability is a Drag!): Beth Abdallah

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

Performance Schedule

Friday, January 28, 2022, 7pm
Chris Steele in MY GRANDMOTHER WORE PANTS
Rotimi Agbabiaka In MANIFESTO

Saturday, January 29, 2022, 7pm
Vicki Juditz in SOLO AT THE END OF THE WORLD
M.J. Kang in THE WINNER

Sunday, January 30, 2022, 7pm
Daniel Martinez in ME AGAIN
Elijah Jalil Paz Fisher in SCREAMIN’ FROM THE ZOO

Friday, February 4, 2022, 7pm
Sharon Eberhardt in THE MARK OF THE MINOTAUR
Linda Amayo-Hassan in THE MISSING SONGS**, presented in association with Native Writers’ Theater

Saturday, February 5, 2022, 7pm
Linda Amayo-Hassan in THE MISSING SONGS**, presented in association with Native Writers’ Theater
US BOY in DISABILITY IS A DRAG! (with ASL interpretation)

Sunday, February 6, 2022, 7pm
Rotimi Agbabiaka in MANIFESTO
Joyful Raven in BREED OR BUST, direction by Jael Weisman

Friday, February 11, 2022, 7pm
Chris Steele in MY GRANDMOTHER WORE PANTS
Daniel Martinez in ME AGAIN

Saturday, February 12, 2022, 7pm
Joyful Raven in BREED OR BUST, direction by Jael Weisman
Summer Broyhill in DREAM LOVER

Sunday, February 13, 2022, 7pm
LOTUS BOY in DISABILITY IS A DRAG! (with ASL interpretation)
Sharon Eberhardt in THE MARK OF THE MINOTAUR

** For more information on how you can help stop violence against Native Women, visit MMIWG2S (csvanw.org).

BIOGRAPHIES

ARTISTS

ROTIMI AGBABIAKA (Manifesto), all pronouns, uses humor, glamor, and drama to upset the status quo. Most recently, Rotimi originated the roles of Aladdin in The Magic Lamp (Presidio Theatre), Salima in House of Joy (CalShakes), and Cellphone in If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons, NYC). Other acting credits include roles at Yale Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Magic Theatre, Word for Word, BACCE, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Rotimi penned the solo shows Homeless and Type/Caste (Theatre Bay Area award); the musical, Seeing Red; and dazzles nightlife stages (as alter ego Miss Cleo Patois). www.rotimionline.com

LINDA AMAYO-HASSAN (The Missing Songs), she/her, is a Chicana/Native actor and playwright, and the Artistic Director of Theatre Cultura. Linda is also a singer, director, and theatre professor at Chabot College. Her most recent performance was in Beth Piatote’s Indian Reality show for Native Writers’ Theatre. Linda is currently under commission with PlayGround for her play LA VIDA LOBO which was featured in Best of PlayGround 23. She is a member of the Pear Playwrights Guild, SameBoat Theatre Collective, Native Writers and had the honor of attending The Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2018.

SUMMER BROYHILL (DREAM Lover), she/her, is an actor, dancer, choreographer, director, musician, singer, improviser, and writer.  She has performed on Broadway (Hairspray), National tours (Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray), Off-Broadway (Killer Therapy, The Day Before Spring, and The Independents, a New York Times Critics’ Pick), and in numerous regional productions, short films, and web series.  She is particularly interested in reimagining classical text and exploring the comedy and magic inherent in our most vulnerable moments of transformation.  She also enjoys good, old-fashioned, banana-peel-slipping pratfalls.  MFA: Old Globe/ University of San Diego Graduate Acting Program.  summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on IG.  

SHARON EBERHARDT (The Mark of the Minotaur), she/her, was a member of Playground’s writer’s pool and Best of Playground – Hands in Trash. She had performed her solo shows Savage Arts and Crazy Famous at The Marsh Theater and Fringe Festivals. She won a mentorship from Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for a non-fiction book about Million Dollar Math Problems.

ELIJAH JALIL PAZ FISHER (Screamin’ from the Zoo), he/him, is a human being, multidisciplinary social justice artist, and an athlete paving a way in the American Theatre landscape for underprivileged individuals and communities. One of his many life projects is building a next-level accessible, public arts institute within the Universe of Much Ease that reimagines the current system of teaching and learning. You can support this project and others through his Patreon, stream his original music under “Elijah Jalil” on all music streaming platforms (Tidal, Apple Music, Spotify, etc.), and/or follow one of his many artistic iterations on social media platforms.

VICKI JUDITZ (Solo at the End of the World), she/her, has performed her original stories at theaters and festivals across the country, including the National Storytelling Festival, Aspen LAFF Festival, and Jewish Women’s Theatre.  Her solo shows “Life After Life” and “Where do Babies Come From?” received rave reviews, and her solo show “Teshuvah, Return” was nominated for an Ovation Award and an LA Weekly Award.  Her story “Dancing at Joe’s” aired on The Moth Radio Hour.  She has played comic roles on TV, including “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “Coach”, and in countless commercials.

M.J. KANG (The Winner), she/her, is a playwright, actor, director, storyteller, and improvisor based in Los Angeles and Montreal. She’s recently been commissioned by Portland Playhouse, Shotgun Players, and AFO Solo Shorts and her plays will be produced by Shakespeare in Action, Workman Arts and Enrichment Works this season. She continues to be part of the Playwrights Group at Company of Angels (second year), The Barrow Group’s Restorative Stories with Seth Barrish (second year,) and is part of the Writer’s Pool at Playground-LA. She’s had her plays produced at Son of Semele, Pan Asian Rep, Theater Passe Muraille, Tarragon Theater, Factory Theater, Blyth Festival Theater and others, as well as been playwright in residence at Nightwood Theater and Theater Passe Muraille. She’s nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and has received other awards, fellowships, and nominations. She has won 5 Moth slams as well as many other story slams. Her narration work on Scholastic’s The Girl From The Sea was recently awarded a SOVAS Award for  “Audiobook Narration – Teens – Best Voiceover” and she played Kwan Won-Ji on CBS’ Seal Team. As an actor, she’s appeared in film, television, and acted on stages across the US, Canada, and London, England.

LOTUS BOY (Disability is a Drag!), ze/they/he, is a shapeshifting, transgender & non-binary, disabled Chinese-American drag king who has been performing in occupied Ohlone land (the Bay Area) for the past 4 years. Ze uses zir art to explore the fluidity of gender, to advocate for accessibility, and to channel messages from his ancestors and his Highest Self about anger, healing, and hope. In November 2021, LOTUS BOY was a featured artist of the first-ever Theyfriend: Non-Binary Performance Festival. You can follow their work on Instagram and TikTok: @kinglotusboy or on Facebook: LOTUS BOY

DANIEL MARTINEZ (Me Again), he/him,  is an award-winning gay Mexican-American actor/writer from San Jose. Daniel is passionate about creating and performing stories that showcase characters you wouldn’t normally see in mainstream media. His web series pilot Play the Fool was featured in and honored by several film festivals. Daniel also starred in and wrote two short plays; We Need to Talk About New Year’s Eve, and The Pact. Daniel recently returned to the stage in Dress Blues as part of the Santa Cruz 8 Tens Festival. Me Again is Daniel’s first venture into solo performing, and this piece is extremely intimate. He’d like to give special thanks to Austin Bean for directing this piece and being a huge help every step of the way. Thank you to Mom, Dad, Candace, Gladys, and Odie for being patient with all the time spent locked away in his room, writing. And thank YOU for attending- whether by chance or by choice, Daniel is honored to share this story with you all.

JOYFUL RAVEN (Breed or Bust), she/her, is a seasoned performer, born into an iconic theater family. Her last solo comedy ‘Sexual Tomboy’ was dubbed  “…one of the funniest shows now on display on Bay Area stages” by the SF Chronicle in 2017. ‘Tomboy’ won “Best of the Fringe” at the 2016 San Francisco Fringe Festival and received an “Encore Performance” at the 2017 United Solo Festival in NYC. She holds an MFA in theater from UC Davis and teaches Solo Performance at Berkeley Rep School of Theater.

CHRIS STEELE (My Grandmother Wore Pants), they/them, is a queer trans nonbinary performance artist, writer, and activist whose work centers on highlighting queer narratives throughout history and combating bigotry and white supremacy. They are a co-founder of the subversive, queer, feminist collective Poltergeist Theatre Project through which they’ve funded and produced 3 years of world-premiere works. Their award-winning drag personas Polly Amber Ross and Peter Pansexual can be found on Instagram @pollyandpeter. As a community activist, their work centers on connecting the Queer Trans community in the Bay with professional artistry opportunities. They are a founding member of the Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Advocacy Collective and the upcoming queer artistry resource BookBayDrag.com.

AUSTIN BEAN (Director, Me Again), he/him, is based in Oakland and is excited to work on his first show in the Bay Area. He currently works as a film instructor for people with disabilities in the South Bay and has previously worked as a video producer for several great theatre companies throughout the Midwest, including at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Austin would like to thank his friend Daniel for putting a whole lot of trust in him with his script, and his partner Tom for… just being amazing.

EDRIS COOPER-ANIFOWOSHE (Director, Manifesto), she/he/they, is a critically acclaimed writer, director, and actor. Edris is founder/director of Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience, an Artist In Residence at Brava Theater, and a member of Campo Santo and Word for Word theatre companies. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Edris is a Faculty Advisor MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College, a low residency institution in Plainfield, VT.

DAVID FORD (Director, The Mark of the Minotaur), he/him, has been collaborating on new and unusual theatre for three decades and has been an artist-in-residence at The Marsh for most of that time. His award-winning solo shows have been seen all over the English-speaking world. The San Francisco press has variously called him the solo performer maven, the monologue maestro, the dean of solo performance, and the solo performer’s best friend, and a week rarely goes by when residents of the Bay Area can not enjoy one of his productions. Collaborators include Geoff Hoyle, Brian Copeland, Lorri Holt, Charlie Varon, Echo Brown, Tom Ammiano, Firoozeh Dumas, Marilyn Pittman, Rebecca Fisher, Wayne Harris, Irma Herrera, Bill Talen, and Marga Gomez.

MATT KIZER (Director, The Missing Songs), he/him, is a proud member of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. He recently produced and acted in Native Writers’ Theater inaugural production An Evening of New Native Plays. Matt also appeared as Tashtego in Moby-Dick at American Repertory Theater. Other favorite performances include roles in The River Bride (Alter Theater), El Paso Blue (Eugene O’Neill Foundation), Damn Yankees (AMTSJ), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and West Side Story(Mountain Play). He’s performed in the beloved The Bracebridge Dinner pageant at the Awahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. He also plays ukulele and sings with his band. Matt is the Artistic Director of Native Writers’ Theater.

JAEL WEISMAN (Director, Breed or Bust), he/him, is a founding member of the Dell’Arte Players Co. and during his tenure there he directed most of the company’s early works and received multiple ‘Drama-logue Awards.’ He later directed four productions at the San Diego Repertory Co. including the American premiere of Peter Barnes’ Red Noses, which received numerous awards including the ‘Best Production Award’ from San Diego Critics Circle. He has had the honor of co-directing and collaborating with such notables as Carlo Mazzone-Clementi and Joe Chaikin. He also directed the original production of The Dragon Lady’s Revenge, which traveled to NY and was awarded an Obie.

BETH ABDALLAH (ASL Interpreter, Disability is a Drag!), she/her, is a nationally certified interpreter, with a B.A. Drama from Ithaca College. She is originally from Rochester, NY but has lived in San Francisco for 10 years. In her spare time she’s a fellow of Odd Salon and her voice can be heard in several episodes of the podcasts Twelve Chimes It’s Midnight as well an upcoming episode of Knifepoint Horror. She’s delighted to help make LOTUS BOY’s show, Disability is a Drag!, accessible to Deaf audiences.

PRODUCTION & STAFF

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.

ANNIE STUART (Associate Artistic Director), she/her, has served as casting director for PlayGround for the past twenty-two seasons and in 2005 was named Associate 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!, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Z Space, among others. She has taught at San Jose State University, College of Marin, and Marin Theatre Company. For the PlayGround 2021-22 season, Annie will cast more than 300 roles.

KELLI WESTAD (Stage Manager), they/she, is a bay area theatre artist and recently graduated with a BA from the University of San Francisco. Their recent credits include sound design for Awesome Theatre’s Jersey Devil Play, performing as the Model in Thunder Bay Theatre’s Twilight Zone, and production manager for the documentary Empress Yee and The Magical History of Chinatown.

BRITTANY MELLERSON (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.”

JACQUE BUGLER (Production Manager), she/they, has served as PlayGround’s Production Manager and Technical Director since 2019. A theatre generalist, they have also directed, designed and stage managed for many Bay Area theatres.

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, gifts of $125 or more committed between January 1, 2021 & January 28, 2022.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • 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 • Google • Grants For The Arts • Koret Foundation • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shenson Foundation • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Zellerbach Family Foundation

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Mr. William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Jerome Joseph Gentes & Michael Bourque, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Craig & Kathy Moody, David Steele, Anonymous

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500–$4,999)

John H. Gilman, Regina S. Guggenheim, Linda Kremer, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Dr. Elaine Baskin & Kenneth R. Krechmer, Mr. William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Thalia Dorwick, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Tish and Steve Harwood, Mrs. Frannie Pope Hohman, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Karen Mauney-Brodek, Nitin, Diane Sampson, Sharon Simpson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, David Cost and Kate Stechschulte, Anonymous (5)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Karen Chakmakian, Paulette Donsavage & Deeje Cooley, Mr. Richard Dixon, Michael Fried, Barbara Goodyear & Stephen Rosenfield, Ruben and Keli Grijalva, Regina S. Guggenheim, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Jofish Kaye & Erin Marie Panttaja, Diane Leonard, Gwen Loeb & Doyle Ott, Ray Riegert, Michele and John Ruskin, Nancy Spencer & Hardy Callcott, Oren & Justin Stevens, Mr. Malachy Walsh, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Maury Zeff

PATRON ($250-$499)

Sharon Baldwin, Wendy Bear, Cass Brayton, Ruth & Robert Brayton, In memory of Susan Bruett, Karen Catlin, Lily L Chow, Laurie Cohen, David Cramer, Ms. Doris Davenport, Mr. Richard Davis – Lowell, Maggie Dewan-Smith, Ms. Lynda Divito, Mr. Mark Andrews, Krystyna Finlayson , Ms. Jessica Forbess, Sarah Gasser, Justin and Oren Stevens, Keith Goldstein, Eileen Grady, Joan & Donald Green, Daryl Anthony Harper, Becky Harris, Margaret and Cory Johnson – UCSF Essential Worker’s Program, Roxy Jones, Ray and Carla Kaliski, Christopher Lee Kuckenbaker, Jonathan Luskin and Leslie Katz, Michael Lutz, Brittany S Mellerson, Three Kurtics and a Morse, Bud & Donna Ogle, Chris Potter & Lisa Mammel, Madeline Daly Puccioni, Matthew Purdon, Donation – Combined, Giving Level, Jim Kleinmann, Lisa R. Taylor, Liam Vincent, Ms. Rosalinde Westil, Christian Wilburn, Janine & Darryl Wilburn, Joanne Chow Winship, Anonymous (3)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Mary E. Baird, Dr. Elaine Baskin, Julie  Birdsong, Gwen and Karen, Nancy Rivera Brooks, Katie Dlesk, Victoria & Philippe Erville, Gina Harris, Derek Kingham, Joanne Kobori, Gregg Le Blanc, Ms. Lisa A. Mammel, Cecily T. Martin, Doug Peckler & Evelyn Jean Pine, Ms. Madeline Daly Puccioni, Kathy J Reynolds, Kary Schulman, Rebecca Schweitzer, Jeunée Simon, Kurt Taylor & BJ Olsen, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Jeffrey Trescott, Kelli Wong, Anonymous (2)

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PLAYGROUND COMPANY

PLAYGROUND WRITERS COMPANY

Linda Amayo-Hassan+, Cass Brayton+, Tom Bruett+, Rachel Bublitz+, Madeleine Butler, Vanessa Cassandras, Reg Clay, Victoria Evans Erville, Jessica Fechtor, Ipsheeta Furtado, Akaina Ghosh, Linda Maria Giron, Garret Jon Groenveld+, Monique Hafen Adams, Sam Hurwitt, Tejahra Jacobs, Lisa Kang, Anne Yumi Kobori, Molly Krost+, Jennifer Le Blanc, Jonathan Luskin+, Christopher Magee, Alanna McFall, Bacilio Mendez II, Isaac Ontiveros+, Conrad Panganiban, Erin Marie Panttaja, Evelyn Jean Pine+, Madeline Puccioni, Neiry Rojo, Kevin Rolston, Annette Roman, Rebecca Schweitzer , Susan Sher, Marissa Skudlarek, Alexis Standridge, Chris Steele, Shruti Tewari, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Eteya Trinidad+, Daysha Veronica+, Madison Wetzell, Christian Wilburn+, Maury Zeff
+ Resident Playwright

PLAYGROUND COMPANY

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, Katherine Hamilton, Daryl Anthony Harper, Eric Fraisher Hayes, Brian Herndon, Monica Ho, Laura Humphrey, J Jha, Colin Johnson, Lyndsy Kail, Dean Koya, Danielle Levin, Amy Lizardo, Jeffrey Lo, Gwen Loeb, George Maguire, Melanie Marshall, Alicia Mason, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Julia McNeal, Sam Misner, Brady Morales-Woolery, Lisa Morse, Jasmine Murray, Noble, Joseph Patrick O’Malley, Karen Offereins, Annette Oliveira, Soren Oliver, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Melissa Ortiz, Doyle Ott, June Palladino, Carla Pantoja, Louis Parnell, Jed Parsario, Michael Phillis, Rebecca Pingree, Stephanie Prentice, Ezra Reaves, 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 Anne To, Jon Tracy, Dane Troy, Mark Rafael Truitt, Liam Vincent, Ian Walker, Maryssa Wanlass, Tracy Ward, Reggie D. White, Aaron Wilton, Elena Wright

PLAYGROUND AMBASSADORS

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

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Annie Stuart, Associate Artistic Director
Norman Gee, Associate Producer
Jed Parsario, Associate Producer
Stephanie Prentice, Associate Producer
Katja Rivera, Associate Producer
Jacque Bugler, Production Manager
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager & Assistant to the Artistic Director
Lindsey Abbott, 2021-22 Producing Fellow/Women Leaders Fellow
Daniel Benitez, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Caroline Portante, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Wallace Yan, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Edna Mira Raia, Post Fellow
Lana Richards, Post Fellow
Chris Steele, Post Fellow

PLAYGROUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Regina Guggenheim, Chair
James A. Kleinmann, President
Jerome Joseph Gentes, VP-Communications
Emilie Talbot, VP-Development
Nitin, Treasurer
Katie May, Secretary
William Bivins
Diana Burbano
Eleanor Clement Glass
Lisa Mammel
Rebecca Martinez
Rondrell McCormick
Stephanie Prentice
Katja Rivera
David Steele

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