PlayGround presents Season 32

“A Very Hitchcock Christmas”

December 6 & 7, 2024 7pm PT

Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast & On-Demand

Executive Producers
Robert & Sandra Allen
Emilie & Gordon Brooks
Nitin & Vasugi
Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton
Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman
Craig Moody
Regina Guggenheim
Keith Goldstein & Donna Warrington
Jackie Kubicka

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.

How the Bates (Almost) Stole Christmas
by J.S. Puller
Directed by Peter J. Kuo
Honorary Producer: Matt Wills
Alfie……………Michael Asberry
Norma………………..Chris Steele
Marion…………April Ballesteros
Adapted from “Psycho”

Fool Proof
by Kimberly Ridgeway
Directed by Karina Guitierrez
Ralphie Parker.…………..James Aaron Oh
Ethan Grinch…………………..Wayne Wong
Conductor/Claus.……….Mark Rafael Truitt
Adapted from “Strangers on a Train”

The Birds is Coming!
by Jonathan Josephson
Directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza
Crow…………………L. Duarte
Seagull………………Danielle Thys
Sparrow……………...Isabel To
Adapted from “The Birds”

Dial M For Merry
by Christian Wilburn
Directed by Lana Richards
Honorary Producers: Linda Marks & Matt Wills
Margot Wendice………………..Emily Keyishian
Tony Wendice………………………..Khary Moye
Inspector Hubbard…………Tessa Koning Martinez
Adapted from “Dial M for Murder”

Shadow of an Uncle Nick
by Mark Sherstinsky
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Honorary Producer: Marilyn Cooper
Nick…………………….GG Grilli
Mary………………….Zoe Chein
Holly………….Rolanda D. Bell
Adapted from “Shadow of a Doubt”

Stage Manager: Khem Myrick
Lighting Designer: Brittany Mellerson
Sound Designer: Brittany Mellerson
Costume Designer: Chris Steele
Properties Artisan: Dianne Harrison

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

PLAYWRIGHTS

JONATHAN JOSEPHSON (The Birds is Coming, inspired by “The Birds”), he/him, fifty of Jonathan’s plays have been produced around the world including Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival), Milwaukee Rep (RepLab), Samuel French OOB (Festival Winner), Chance Theater, and Mountain View Mausoleum. His work has been included in several Smith and Kraus Best Of collections, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Best of PlayGround-LA, and has also been named a Finalist for the O’Neill. Twenty-five of his plays are published by Concord Theatricals, Broadway Licensing, and others. He’s also a co-founder of the award-winning Unbound Productions (Wicked Lit, History Lit, Mystery Lit). B.A. Theatre: Playwriting, UCSD. DG, ALAP. [jonathanjosephson.com]

J.S. PULLER (How the Bates (Almost) Stole Christmas, inspired by “Psycho”), she/her, J. S. Puller is a playwright and author from the Windy City, Chicago. She is an award-winning member of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education and has written about the social-emotional benefits of arts education with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. She is the author of two novels, CAPTAIN SUPERLATIVE and THE LOST THINGS CLUB, both published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She also has several published plays, including: WOMEN WHO WEAVE (Playscripts, Inc.), PERSEUS AND MEDUSA – IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME! (Lazybee Scripts), and THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD (Stage Rights).

KIMBERLY RIDGEWAY (Fool Proof, inspired by “Strangers on a Train”), she/her, Kimberly Ridgeway is an award winning Playwright, Actor, and Director. Kimberly is a Playground company member, is the Actor’s Pool, Director’s Pool and this is her third year in the Writer’s Pool. Kimberly is a Brady Fellow Recipient, a Theatre Bay Area (TBA) Art Leadership Residency Grantee and the Artistic Associate at Altarena Playhouse. Kimberly is also the recipient of the 2024 June Anne Baker Prize. Her play Snowbound: A Holiday Tale, which she co-wrote with Writer’s Pool member Richard Perez, will have its World Premiere in December 2025 at Town Hall Theatre.

MARK SHERSTINSKY (Shadow of an Uncle Nick, inspired by “Shadow of a Doubt”), he/him, is a Los Angeles-based playwright who most recently completed his full-length play The Mission (PlayGround-LA People’s Choice commission). His latest staged plays include The Sound of Invasion (Towne Street Theatre, Los Angeles); The Things We Do for Love (Strange Rx, San Francisco); and The Valley (Pittsburgh New Works Festival). Mark’s radio play No Tree aired on Shoestring Radio Theatre (KXSF, San Francisco) and his short play Silver Linings was published in RipRap Journal.

CHRISTIAN WILBURN (Dial M for Merry, inspired by “Dial M for Murder”), he/him, is an award-winning writer and educator who creates diverse, fantastical, and radically empathetic stories. His short plays have been featured in festivals around the country, His plays Starlight and Love_Stories have received world premieres.

ACTORS

MICHAEL ESBERRY (How the Bates (Almost) Stole Christmas, “Alfie”), he/him, enthusiastically joins this Playground production having recently performed in TheaterWorks New Works Festival (THE BRIDGE). Favorite roles include HOLLOWAY (Two Trains Running), TROY MAXSON (Fences), LEWIS (Blue Door), LORD CAPULET (Romeo and Juliet) and FROZONE (Mr. Incredible and Pals). Michael has film, television and voiceover experience, is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild and he’s a connoisseur of Fine Dad Jokes.

APRIL BALLESTEROS (How the Bates (Almost) Stole Christmas, “Marion”) she/her, is an actor, director, educator, and stage manager. She is a company member with Theatre Cultura and worked in the Artistic Learning Department at the California Shakespeare Theater for 7 years. She has worked with SF Playhouse, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, SF Shakes, Berkeley Rep, and SFBATCO, to name a few. She earned a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, East Bay, and hails from East Los Angeles.

ROLANDA D. BELL (Shadow of an Uncle Nick, “Holly”) she/her, Born & raised Oakland Ca, Rolanda has been on her career route as a storyteller since 2013. Rolanda’s work & accomplishments include: local Teaching Artist throughout the Bay Area BATCC nominee for her role in OTP production of A Thousand Ship, Berkeley Rep Theater School as a director for 2024 High School Theater Festival & 2023 RHE Artistic Fellow recipient.
Recent Theater Credits include: A Thousand Ships (Oakland Theater Project), Shipping & Handling (Crowded Fire Theater), Midsummer Nights Dream (Shotgun Players), POTUS (Berkeley Rep), Is God Is (Oakland Theater Project) and Paradise Blue (Aurora Theater).
As her resume continues to grow you can see more of her work in original film Blindspotting, Netflix Original film All Day & A Night & voice actor in deleted scenes for PIXAR Animation films LIGHTYEAR & Inside Out 2. Rolanda is SAG-AFTRA & represented by JE Talent. @rolandadene

ZOE CHIEN (Shadow of an Uncle Nick, “Mary”), she/her, is an actor, model, casting director, and theater producer. She received her BFA in Theater from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Zoe is the Casting and Producing Consultant for 3Girls Theatre Company, and is the Casting Director and Associate Producer for PlayGround. She is a PlayGround company member, and a graduate of the 2023/24 Producing Fellowship. She feels lucky to be in this industry at a time when so much art is being made in response to our social and political climate, and is proud to represent her mixed-race Taiwanese and Italian-American community. @thezoechien zoechien.com

L. DUARTE (The Birds is Coming, “Crow”), they/them, L. Duarte Proud PlayGround company member, LA to Bay Area actor. Some of their favorite Bay Area productions include Real Women Have Curves, Measure for Measure, Tartuffe, March, The Secretaries, Happy End, Dg Lady/Evening Star, and The Kentucky Cycle. They have appeared in numerous commercial spots,
industrials, and has provided voice-over talent on multiple projects. Duarte attended UCLA for their BA and the UCSC for their Master’s, Shakespeare and Company’s Winter Conservatory, and A.C.T.’s Summer Training Congress. Thank you to my delightful children, Paris and Ella for making me laugh everyday. You are the reason for the season. ¡Te amo, te quiero, te adoro! @actorlduarte

GG Grilli (Shadow of an Uncle Nick, “Nick“) he/him, is an actor, director, writer, producer, filmmaker, and teacher. He’s worked at theaters in the Bay Area, New York City, and around the country for over three decades. Recent projects include directing The Servant of Two Masters with Bentley School at the Lesher Center and attending the Emma Rice Company’s first ever educators residency. He was the Founding Artistic Director of BrickaBrack, a multidisciplinary ensemble company, from 2012 – 2020. PlayGround member since 2008! Recently with PG: Victor in Work/Shoot (Festival), Brad in Nature’s Final Solution (MNP) www.gggrilli.com

EMILY KEYISHIAN (Dial M for Merry, “Margot Wendice”), she/her, has performed in theater and film on both US coasts. In the Bay Area, she has appeared with UC Berkeley, Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, Crescent Moon Theater, Shotgun Players, Marin Theatre Company, Golden Thread, Dragon Theater, Perspective Theatre, Custom Made Theatre, Role Players Ensemble, Town Hall Theatre, and the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, even performing in New Ross, Ireland. Emily also works as a film actor and won the Best Actor award at the Locals Only Film Festival. She co-stars in the film “Werewolf Serenade” streaming now on Amazon! She is also visual artist and painter. Thanks always to Ed, Harry & Shane. emilykeyishian.com

TESSA KONING-MARTINEZ (Dial M for Merry, “Inspector Hubbard”) she/her, This long-time Bay Area actor and educator, and Playground Company Member is pleased as punch to be part of this year’s Hitchcock Holiday show. Tessa has originated roles for outstanding playwrights Cherrie Moraga, Octavio Solis, and Josefina Lopez. She has joined ensembles Word For Word, The Z Collective, El Teatro Campesino, Subterranean Shakespeare, and Teatro de la Esperanza among others. Ms.Koning-Martinez currently works as a Teaching Artist with Teatro Jornalero and the Palo Alto Childrens Theater..

KHARY MOYE (Dial M for Merry, “Tony Wendice”), he/him, is No Scrooge and is Happy to be back with Playground for The Traditional Christmas Show! His previous credits Include Fat Ham with S.F Playhouse (Understudy), Two Trains Running with Marin Theatre Company, Toni Stone with A.C.T, Six Degrees of Separation with Custom Made Theatre and A Streetcar Named Desire with African American Shakespeare Company. He is honored to be a part of this amazing company and truly be a part of the Storytelling Process! He is thankful to his family/friends and girlfriend for always being so supportive of his dreams. A special shout out goes to his father Adrian Clements who always said, “In order to catch a dream, you have to chase one” Thank you Dad. Love you.

JAMES AARON OH (Fool Proof, “Ralphie Parker”), he/him, is a mixed Asian-American actor based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. He’s worked with companies such as Berkeley Rep, San Francisco Playhouse, and San Jose Stage Company. He’s currently stepping into the realm of audiobook narration, with his first book being Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. To be kept up to date with all his acting goings on, please visit his website, www.jamesaaronoh.com, or follow him on instagram, @jamesaaronoh

MARK RAFAEL TRUITT (Fool Proof, “Conductor/Claus“), he/him, is a member of the PlayGround Company. His Bay Area appearances include “Ted Kaczinski Killed People with Bombs”, “Schrodinger’s Girlfriend”, and “Body Familiar” for the Magic Theatre. He has appeared in a number of Best of Playgrounds and Twisted Christmas Specials. He has also appeared at Yale Repertory, American Stage, Wisdom Bridge, and Northlight Theatre, among others. Film and Television credits include “Titanic”, “Star Trek Voyager”, “The Practice”, and “Chance”. He is also author of the book, “Telling Stories: A Grand Unified Theory of Acting Techniques”

CHRIS STEELE (How the Bates (Almost) Stole Christmas, “Norma”) she/they, is a queer trans nonbinary performance artist, writer, designer, and activist. Her award-winning drag persona Polly Amber Ross can be found on instagram @pollyamberross. As a producer, Chris specializes in Marketing and Communications, and is the founder of Poltergeist Theatre Project.

Danielle Thys (The Birds is Coming!, “Seagull”), she/her, is an actor, writer, and producer, and an original member of PlayGround. Her work spans regional theatre, film, and solo performance and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Her short film Open House won Best Comedy in the National Film Challenge. Danielle is currently developing a new solo show while continuing her work at a certified simulation healthcare educator, using dramatic improv to educate all levels of learners at Stanford Medical School

Isabel To (The Birds is Coming!, “Sparrow”), she/her , is an actor, singer, and PlayGround company member based in the SF Bay Area. This is her second Twisted Holiday show, though she performs regularly at Monday Night PlayGround, in addition to PlayGround SF festival productions (The Passing Storm, Starlight, and Funny, Like an Abortion). Other selected credits: Tea Party (One Of Our Own Theater), The Jersey Devil Play (Awesome Theatre), and Avenue Q (New Conservatory Theatre Center). Isabel has also collaborated on short film projects with Liam Kirk and Èlement Magique. Offstage, she enjoys cross-stitching, baking, and traveling. www.isabelanneto.com

WAYNE WONG (Fool Proof, “Ethan Grinch”), he/him, has been happily involved with Playground-SF for a couple of years now. He has also appeared with SF Playhouse (As You Like It), Shotgun Players (Triumph of Love), Playwrights Center of SF and Playwrights Foundation. He’s also an opera singer.

DIRECTORS

KARINA GUTIERREZ (Fool Proof) she/her, is a Bay Area-based director, dramaturg, and scholar. She is passionate about supporting new play development, fostering local artists, and creating welcoming, equitable, and accessible theatre spaces and classrooms. She considers theatre a powerful space for social change and the mending, healing, and restoring of communities. As a director and dramaturg, Karina has had the pleasure of working with Bay Area Children’s Theatre, BRAVA, Magic Theatre, Crowded Fire, Huntington Theatre, Marin Theatre, PlayGround, Playwright’s Foundation, Shotgun Players, Stanford University, TheatreFirst, Townhall Theatre, UC Berkeley, West Edge Opera, and Word for Word. She is additionally a member of the Latinx Theatre Commons Steering Committee, a board member at Theatre Bay Area and Crowded Fire Theatre. Karina received her Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Stanford University, where she was awarded the Carl Weber Prize for integration of Creative Practice and Scholarly Research. Her scholarship concentrates on the intersection of politics and performance, specifically how digital interventions, institutionalization efforts, and historical narrative affect the development and sustainability of social and politically engaged performance companies and collectives in the Americas. She is currently a professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

JIM KLEINMANN (Shadow of an Uncle Nick; 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.

PETER J. KUO (How the Bates (Almost) Stole Christmas), he/him, is a theatre director, producer, writer, and educator focusing on raising the visibility of marginalized communities. Currently, he is the Director of the Conservatory at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.). Named as one of TCG’s Rising Leaders of Color in the Round 3 cohort, he is also a co-founder of Artists at Play, an Asian American theatre collective that produces Los Angeles premieres. He holds an M.F.A. in directing from The New School, College of Performing Arts, School of Drama.

ELY SONNY ORQUIZA (The Birds is Coming!), he/him, is a Queer Filipino artistic director, stage director, and arts educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. A 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree, he creates theater that amplifies the Asian diaspora, Queer/ness, and Global Majority voices. Through art and advocacy, Orquiza sparks conversations on equity, representation, and community empowerment. elysonnyorquiza.org

LANA RICHARDS (Dial M for Merry), she/her, is a director focused on new work development, site specific work, and adaptation. She has worked with Cutting Ball, The Pear Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, We Players, EnActe, The Civilians, The Hearth, Ruthless Nightingale, Parallel 45, PlayGround, and Pacific Repertory Theater, and is an alumna of Connecticut College where she studied theater and environmental studies. She co-founded The Wickies in 2019 with collaborators Anna Nemetz and Allison Snyder. She was the 2019 Directing Fellow at Parallel 45 Theater, and a Directing Apprentice & Producing Fellow at PlayGround in 2020 where she is now the Director of Development. Lanarichards.com

PRODUCTION & STAFF

BRITTANY MELLERSON (Sound Designer/Lighting Designer)

CHRIS STEELE (Costume Designer)

DIANNE HARRISON (Properties Artisan), she/her, has worked for the past fifteen years in stage management, sound/light board operations, and props design for many Bay Area theatre companies, including the African-American Shakespeare Company (Richard II / The Glass Menagerie), the Altarena Playhouse (A Nice Family Gathering / The Birds), Eye Zen Presents (Sylvester: The Mighty Real), PlayGround SF (Monday Night series / Best Of Festival), Ross Valley Players (Silent Sky / Pride and Prejudice: The Musical), Santa Rosa Junior College (Beauty and the Beast / Legally Blonde: The Musical), Sonoma Arts Live (Nunsense / Calendar Girls), The Mountain Play (Camelot), and Valley Players (Men in Boats). In 2015 she earned a Certificate of Merit from the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival for stage managing the SRJC’s production of Almost, Maine. Dianne is honored to design again for PlayGround SF, and she thanks her husband for his unwavering encouragement and support.

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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Linda Ayres-Frederick, Tanika Baptiste, Daniel Baxter, Nico Bocalan, Robyn Brooks, Madeleine Butler, Melina Cohen-Bramwell, Jediah Craig, rob dario, Laura Domingo, Elizabeth Flanagan, Reed Flores, Antonino Greene, Garret Groenveld, KT Frances Hartline, Grace Hoffman, Everett Holland, Christine C. Hsu, Carl Johnson, Ruth Kirschner, Sarena Kuhn, Greg Lam, Jennifer Le Blanc, Kristy Lin Billuni, Daniel Martinez Jr., Richard Perez, Bridgette Portman, Kimberly Ridgeway, George Rose, Louel Señores, Alexis Standridge, Stan Stone, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Kaz Valtchev, Livian Yeh, Maury Zeff

PlayGround Resident Playwrights 2024-25

Michael Adams, Anthony Anello, Robyn Brooks, Bailey Jordan Garcia, Garret Groenveld, Juliet Kang Huneke, Karissa Murrell Myers, Lyra Nalan, Jacob Marx Rice, Kimberly Ridgeway, Louel Señores, Christian Wilburn

PlayGround Company

Molly Aaronson-Gelb, Angel Adedokun, Patrick Alparone, Linda Amayo-Hassan, Liz Anderson, Rinabeth Apostol, Michael Asberry, Michael Barrett Austin, Mary Baird, April Ballesteros, Tanika Baptiste, Aldo Billingslea, Millie Brooks, Julia Brothers, Nicole Apostol Bruno, Lizzie Calogero, Ron Campbell, Joy Carlin, Nancy Carlin, Zoe Chien, Ben Chau-Chiu, 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, Gisela Feied, Britney Frazier, Michael French, Claire Ganem, Sarah Gasser, Norman Gee, Douglas B. Giorgis, Linda Giron, Amy Glazer, Cindy Goldfield, BW Gonzalez, Gabriel Grilli, Rudy Guerrero, Rosie Hallett, Katherine Hamilton, Eric Fraisher Hayes, Brian Herndon, Champagne Hughes, J Jha, Colin Johnson, Jennifer King, 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, Khary L. Moye, Molly Noble, Karen Offereins, Annette Oliveira, Soren Oliver, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Tony Ortega, Doyle Ott, June Palladino, Carla Pantoja, Louis Parnell, Jed Parsario, Michael Phillis, Krystle Piamonte, Rebecca Pingree, Stephanie Prentice, Ezra Reaves, Virginia 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 Rafael 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, Associate Director of Development 
Jonathan Josephson, Director of Marketing & Communications 
Norman Gee, Associate Producer 
Katja Rivera, Associate Producer 
Zoe Chien, Associate Producer 
Tessa Corrie, Co-Casting Director 
Patricia Cotter, Co-Casting Director 
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer 
Katie Brown, 2024-25 Producing Fellow 
Leon Jones, 2024-25 Producing Fellow 
Zoe Lesser, 2024-25 Producing Fellow 
Joey Reyes, 2024-25 Producing Fellow 
Amal Mazen Salem, 2024-25 Producing Fellow 
Sarah Showich, 2024-25 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 of Directors

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

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