PlayGround presents Season 31

A Very Hitchcock Christmas

December 7 & 8, 2024 7pm PT

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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To Catch a Grinch
by Daniel Arzola
Directed by Linda Amayo-Hassan
Hitchcock……..Wayne Wong
Grinch………..Leon Goertzen
Max………Carolina Morones
Adapted from ” To Catch a Thief”

The Birds is Coming!
by Jonathan Josephson
Directed by Lana Richards
Crow…Maryssa Wanlass
Seagull……..Khary Moye
Sparrow…Carla Gallardo
Adapted from “The Birds”

The Sugarplum Trap
by Marissa Skudlarek
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Jessica………………………Zoe Chien
De Ville….Brady Morales-Woolery
Santa Claus…………David Cramer
Elf……………………April Ballesteros
Adapted from “Notorious”

A Murder at Christmas
by Stan Stone
Directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza
Brandon.…..James Aaron Oh
Philip………………….Joe Ayers
Ben.……………..Leon Goertzen
Adapted from “Rear Window”

Santa on a Rope
by Shoshanna Ruth Green
Directed by Norman Gee
Bingles…………………………………………L. Duarte
Frillip………………………………………….Zoe Chien
Santa/Professor Rudolph…Mark Rafael Truitt
Mrs. Claus……………………………Emily Keyishian
Adapted from “Rope”

Stage Manager: Khem Myrick
Lighting Designer: Brittany Mellerson
Sound Designer: Brittany Mellerson
Costume Designer: Aurie Stetzel
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

DANIEL ARZOLA (To Catch a Grinch, inspired by “To Catch a Thief”), they/them, is a Mexican-American playwright born and raised in the Chicagoland area. They are currently in their second season in PlayGround Chicago’s Writers Pool. Their plays have been performed at high school and university stages and they are currently working on several new works, including a new play recently selected as a National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist at the O’Neill and Scratchpad Series Semifinalist at Playwrights Realm. They also work as a director, frequently working on new play developments.

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-six 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]

MARISSA SKUDLAREK (The Sugarplum Trap, inspired by “Notorious”), she/her, writes playscripts and computer scripts from her home in Haight-Ashbury. Her full-length plays include You’ll Not Feel the Drowning (Custom Made Theatre workshop, 2017), Pleiades (No Nude Men, 2014), Juana (Loud & Unladylike Festival, 2016), and Deus ex Machina (Young Playwrights Festival winner, 2006). She was a member of the PlayGround writers’ pool from 2020-2023, and her shorter plays have also been seen at EXIT Theatre, the SF Olympians Festival, and PianoFight. After translating Cocteau’s Orphée and Rostand’s Cyrano, she is currently working on a new adaptation of Victor Hugo’s melodrama Hernani. Keep in touch at marissaskudlarek.com.

STAN STONE (A Murder at Christmas, inspired by “Rear Window ”), he/him, writes for stage and film, and has a published book of poetry titled, Unlikely Saviors. He also has a short story in the newly published, Thriving: An Anthology. Stan’s play Freedom was chosen as a finalist for Best Of Playground SF 2024.

SHOSHANNA RUTH GREEN (Santa on a Rope, inspired by “Rope”), she/her, is so pleased and honored to be a part of this for the second year! Shoshanna is an actor and writer from Philadelphia, by way of New Zealand, by way of Pittsburgh. She adores Shakespeare, immersive theater and laughter. Shoshanna just finished an incredible run of shows at Theatricum Botanicum where Broadway World called her “wildly comic and entertaining.” When she’s not on stage you can find her writing comedy for her sketch group Corduroy at The Pack Theater. More info at www.shoshannaruthgreen.com

ACTORS

JOE AYERS (A Murder at Christmas, “Phillip”), he/him, was most recently seen in the critically-acclaimed production of The Play that Goes Wrong at San Francisco Playhouse. Other recent favorite credits include Torch Song at Marin Theatre, The Legend of Georgia McBride at Center Repertory Company and Significant Other at Los Altos Stage Company. He has also performed regionally at Asolo Repertory Theatre, American Stage, California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Playhouse, and New Canon Theatre Company. BA: UC Berkeley. MFA: Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory. IG: @joeayers13

APRIL BALLESTEROS (The Sugarplum Trap, “Elf”) she/her, is an actor, director, educator, producer, and stage manager. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Cultura and worked in the Artistic Learning Department at the California Shakespeare Theater for 6 years. She has worked with SF Playhouse, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, SFBATCO, and Shotgun Players, to name a few. She earned a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, East Bay, and hails from East Los Angeles.

ZOE CHIEN (The Sugarplum Trap, “Jessica”/ Santa on a Rope “Frillip), she/her, is an actor and arts administrator with a BFA in Theater from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she trained at The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and the Stonestreet Studios for Television and Film. Zoe is the Casting and Producing Director of 3Girls Theatre Company, and is a PlayGround Associate Producer this season. She feels lucky to be in this industry in 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. For more, visit zoechien.com.

DAVID CRAMER (The Sugarplum Trap, “Santa Claus”),  he/him, David Cramer has a BFA in theatre arts, studied at The Royal Academy in London and was a member of the Harvey Lembeck comedy improv workshop in L.A. Featured roles in film and television include M*A*SH*, The Waltons, Nash Bridges among others. He has performed locally with The Magic, Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players and Word For Word and has been a Playground company member for 15 years.

L. DUARTE (Santa on a Rope, “Bingles”), they/them, is an actor, director & playwright whose recent projects include: Citizen with Word for Word/Z Space, August: Osage County with San Jose Stage Company, Julius Caesar with PacRep, The Review with Theatre Rhinoceros , Helen! With Theatre of Yugen, Into the Beautiful North & The King of Cuba with CentralWorks. Duarte is a graduate of UCLA, UCSC, and has trained with A.C.T. and Shakespeare & Co. Find a full range of work by Duarte at Casting Networks HERE. Be on the lookout for my current films on rotation at festivals near you. Find links at IG: boujeechola

CARLA GALLARDO (The Birds is Coming, “Sparrow“) she/her, is a Bay Area actor, teaching artist, and she is always looking for the next story to embody & share with audiences. Her recent credits include : Arsenic & Old Lace (Center Rep), Cost of Living, Exodus to Eden, Book of Sand (a fairytale) (Oakland Theater Project), Doméstica Realidad (La Lengua Teatro), Doméstica Realidad, Las Azurduys (La Lengua Theater), References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot (CustomMade Theater).

LEON GOERTZEN (A Murder at Christmas, “Ben”), he/they, has worked at theaters in the northern and southern California, including Capital Stage, East West Players, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Will and Company, Magic Theatre, Asian American Theater Company, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Road Theatre Company, Cutting Ball Theater, Aurora Theater Company, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, California Conservatory Theatre and New Conservatory Theater. Film credits include Quitters (with Kieran Culkin and Mira Sorvino) and Beauty and The Blade. Leon is a graduate of the School of Drama at UNC School of the Arts and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, and Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company.

EMILY KEYISHIAN (Santa on a Rope, “Mrs. Claus”), she/her, Emily has performed in theater and film on both US coasts. In the Bay Area, she has appeared with 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, recently performing in New Ross, Ireland. Emily also works as a film actor and recently 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 (To Catch a Grinch, “Cop/Cindy-Lou”) really enjoyed seeing last year’s ‘”Very Hitchcock Christmas”, and she is tickled green to be acting in this year’s. Ms. Koning-Martinez has been performing professionally in the Bay Area for many years, beginning with Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s “Roosters” and most recently in Jose Diaz’s “Pasta”. Regional credits with San Jose Rep and Teatro Campesino, original production roles in plays by Josefina Lopez, Octavio Solis, and Cherrie Moraga. Tessa has also worked for many years as a Teaching Artist/Director. 

BRADY MORALES-WOOLERY (The Sugarplum Trap, “De Ville”), he/him, most recently appeared in Private Lives at A.C.T. Other regional credits include: People Where They Are (San Jose Stage); 1984 and Born With Teeth (Aurora Theatre Company); Private Lives (Arizona Theatre Company); Clue (Center Rep); Romeo y Juliet and Twelfth Night (Cal Shakes); The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence (Shotgun Players); Once (42nd Street Moon); Retablos (Word for Word); Barefoot in the Park and The Kentucky Cycle (Willows Theatre Company). Feature film credits include: Quitters, Pushing Dead, The Internship, and Avenue of the Giants. He holds a BA in Theatre from UC Berkeley. bradymwoolery.com 

CAROLINA MORONES (To Catch a Grinch, “Max”), she/her, is an Actor, Bilingual Teaching Artist and Bay Area native. Currently in her 11th season with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is honored to be an Associate Teacher with GLMCC training actors and teachers in the Michael Chekhov acting technique. Most recently she played the role of Ofelia in Citizen by Greg Saris at Word for Word, ZSpace. Other notable credits include: Electricidad, SCU Presents; Fade, PCPA’s InterPlay series; Pericles, Prince of Tyre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; Elliot A Soldier’s Fugue, The Pear Theatre; Much Ado Para Nada, Shakespeare in Detroit; She Persisted the Musical, Bay Area Children’s Theatre; Ward 6, Central Works; and The Tenth Muse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

KHARY MOYE (The Birds is Coming, “Seagull”), he/him, is happy to be returning to PlayGround for another Christmas Show!! His previous credits include Two Trains Running with Marin Theatre Company, Toni Stone with A.C.T, IHO with Berkeley Repertory Theatre Company and A Streetcar Named Desire with African American Shakespeare Company. His next project will be Fat Ham with SF Playhouse. 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 and you are missed every day. Love you.

JAMES AARON OH (A Murder at Christmas, “Brandon”), he/him, is a Mixed-Asian American actor. Recent theater credits include Berkeley Rep, Center REP, and Oklahoma City Repertory Theater. Feature film credit Protection Detail (2022). He has also lent his voice to several indie video games and animations. He wants to send his love and appreciation to his family, partner, and friends for all their support. If you would like to keep up with all of James’ goings-on, please follow him on Instagram @jamesaaronoh or visit his website www.jamesaaronoh.com

MARK RAFAEL TRUITT (Santa on a Rope, “Santa/Professor Rudolph“), 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 numerous Best of Playgrounds as well as 2022’s Twisted Christmas Special. 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”.

MARISSA WANLASS (The Birds is Coming, “Crow”), she/they, is an actor, director, and educator, with an emphasis on social justice and classical theatre. Bay Area stage acting highlights include SF Shakes (Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Hamlet, and Winter’s Tale), CalShakes (As You Like It), Jewel Theatre (Breaking the Code, Book Club Play), San Jose Stage (Persuasion), SPARC Theatre (As You Like It, Hamlet, Merry Wives of Windsor), Center REPertory Company (Sweat, Enchanted April, Witness for the Prosecution). She has directed locally for San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Utopia Theatre Project, PlayGroundSF, Shotz, and regionally for Advice to the Players. Wanlass’ social justice theatre work includes working with Red Ladder to deliver improv workshops to California’s incarcerated population and with SF Shakes to develop a program to foster creativity with unhoused neighbors in San Francisco. 

WAYNE WONG (To Catch a Grinch, “Hitchcock”), he/him, has appeared in over 90 productions, mostly operas. He was last seen as Silla in Ars Minerva’s production of LA FLORA. Other engagements include Berkeley (West Edge) Opera, Opera Parallele, Festival Opera, Island City Opera, Lamplighters, SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players and Teatro Bocchino. Roles include Don Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte), Benoit and Alcindoro (La boheme), Frank and Frosch (Die Fledermaus), Angelotti, Sciarrone and the Jailer (Tosca), and Gideon (Little Women).

DIRECTORS

LINDA AMAYO-HASSAN (To Catch a Grinch) is a Native/Chicana actor, director, and playwright. She’s the Artistic Director of Theatre Cultura, a PlayGround Board Member, and a theatre professor at Chabot College. Linda directed La Perra Triste Llorand, The Negotiators and Acknowledgement for Monday Night PlayGround. Last year for “A Very Hitchcock Christmas” she directed A Stranger On A Holiday Train. 

NORMAN GEE (Santa on a Rope), he/him, is Artistic Director of Oakland Public Theater (OPT) and an Associate Producer with PlayGround-SF. He works with Bay Area companies including A.C.T., SF-Shakes, Word for Word, Lorraine Hansberry, TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, CentralWorks, Oakland Theater Project, the San Jose Stage Company, and the SF Mime Troupe. This summer Gee produced, directed & acted in OPT’s INVENTORY/James Baldwin Abroad, celebrating that writer’s centennial. He also just finished shooting the film IN THE MIDST OF THEM, playing Pastor Blue. This fall he directed & acted in a short for the Incubator Showcase in November.

JIM KLEINMANN (The Sugarplum Trap; 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.

ELY SONNY ORQUIZA (A Murder at Christmas), he/him,  is a director, educator, and theatre-maker dedicated to dynamic, socially conscious storytelling. Known for exploring untold histories and marginalized voices, Ely reinterprets classic and contemporary works with an emphasis on physicality and ensemble. His approach invites audiences to engage deeply with issues of equity, identity, and resilience.

LANA RICHARDS (The Birds is Coming), she/her, is a Bay Area director. Recents: Center Piece at Cutting Ball, Please Don’t Slow Me Down, and Tips for Nervous Fliers (solo performance) at Potrero Stage. Training: Connecticut College, SITI Company, MICHA, Bread and Puppet, Complicite, and the National Theater Institute. PlayGround-SF Company Member. lanarichards.com

PRODUCTION & STAFF

BRITTANY MELLERSON (Sound Designer/Lighting Designer)

AURIE STETZEL (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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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

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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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