PlayGround presents Season 31

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

“If I Had a Song: Folk-Inspired Short Musicals”
February 17th, 2025 7pm PT

Potrero Stage & 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.

Monday Night PlayGround Memberships

We are deeply grateful to our 2024-25 Monday Night PlayGround Members, whose direct support helps to underwrite artists fees for the Monday Night series across all four regions:

Dr. & Mrs. Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Sharon Baldwin, Julie Berthold, Tim Bishop, Linda B Breaux-Smith, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, John Brown, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Ben Cain, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Joan Cleveland, Sheila Collins, Marilyn Berg Cooper, Logan Varas De Valdes, Betsy Dudak, Cathy Earnest, Ann Ehrmann, Krystyna Finlayson, Michael Tonjum & Jan Gilman, Hollis Greenwood, Elizabeth Groenewegen, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Brandy T Jones, Roxy Jones, Jacqueline Whittier Kubicka, Emily Kuroda, Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Le Blanc, Alice Lehmann, Karen & Matt Levesque, Kristy Lin Billuni, Melinda Lopez, Linda G Marks, Dolores Martinez, Dr. Sheila McCormick, Yvonne McIntyre, Cynthia L Morishige, Dan Morley, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Annette Oliveira, Emily Brauer Rogers, George Rose, Jessica June Rowe, Michelle Ruscetta, John J. Ruskin, Miyoko Sakatani, Jennifer Schultz & Eric Rosenzweig, Mark Sherstinsky, Nancy W. Smith, Stan Stone, Cathy M Stonie, Mary Lou Torre, Kim Tram, Vicki Victoria, Dr. Eidell Wasserman, Bex White, Janine Wilburn, and Cindy Womack. Thank you! 

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This Land is Mined Land
by Carl Andrew Johnson
Directed by Nick Musleh
Niko……………..Louel Senores
Boris……………..Doonie Love
Min……………..Randy Lee

I’ve Looked at Clouds that Way
by KT Frances Hartline
Directed by Linda Amayo-Hassan
Jaqui……………..Pidge Meade
Victor……………..Dave Sikula

Whisper
by Laura Domingo
Directed by Katja Rivera
Mrs. Chapman……………..Cathleen Riddley
Maria……………..Regina Morones
Mr. Johnson…………….Patrick Russell

16 Tons
by Alexis Standridge
Directed by Jenna Stein-Corman
Office Manager/Male Example……….Wayne Wong
Office Administrator/Female Example…..Isabel Anne To
Office Assistant………………………….April Ballesteros

The Ballad of Yuan Guan
by Livian Yeh
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Yuan Guan……………………..Zoe Chien
Confucius…………………….Jake Fong
Pear……………………..Jessica Fong

Returning Pony
by Bridgette Dutta Portman
Directed by Brittany Mellerson
Nathan……………..Charlie Gray
Diane……………..L. Duarte

Stage Manager – Liam Kirk
Broadcaster – Alanna McFall
Box Office Manager – K’Zhane McGill

This performance is produced under agreement with SAG-AFTRA.

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area, ART/New York, the League of Chicago Theatres and Theatre Communications Group.

Biographies

PLAYWRIGHTS

LAURA DOMINGO (Whisper), she/her, is a Native Hawaiian/Filipina writer and actor based on Oakland, CA. She has written screenplays for three Best Film winners for the 48-Hour Film Project (2019 – San Jose; 2020 – U.S. West; and 2021 – San Jose), and her short plays won runner-up in 2023 and 2024 for Silicon Valley Shakespeare’s 48-Hour Play Festival. She is part of the writing pool with SF-based sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster.

KT FRANCES HARTLINE (I’ve Looked at Clouds that Way), she/her, is a Berkeley-based playwright and screenwriter. After working as a New York City public school teacher, she was editor for two New York-based magazines and wrote for Oakland and Parents Press. Her plays have appeared in festivals around the country, including It’s Alarming, a Heideman Award finalist which premiered at Monday Night PlayGround. Her screenwriting accolades include AFF Second Rounder and Finalist in the International PAGE Awards. She is now in Roadmap Writers’ Career Writer Program. Her greatest joy is squeezing into a hardcore punk show and watching the son she homeschooled absolutely shred on drums.

CARL ANDREW JOHNSON (This Land is Mined Land), he/him, is a recent addition to PlayGround-SF, with a passion for writing satire, speculative fiction, and comedy. While taking screen and stage playwriting courses at Berkeley City College, he was encouraged by his instructor to submit his work to local theater groups. His writing often draws from personal experiences, blending humor and thought-provoking elements, with the goal of ensuring that audiences leave with both a smile and something to ponder.

BRIDGETTE DUTTA PORTMAN (Returning Pony), she/her, is a playwright and novelist. More than two dozen of her plays have been produced locally, nationally, and internationally. She received the 2023 June Anne Baker Prize from PlayGround, and has been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, the Theatre Bay Area TITAN award, the PlayPenn Conference, the Kentucky Women’s Theatre Conference Prize for Women Writers, the New Dramatists playwrights’ residency, and more. She holds an MFA in creative writing (Spalding University, 2018) and teaches composition and dramatic writing at UC Berkeley’s College Writing Programs.

ALEXIS STANDRIDGE (16 Tons), she/her, is a South Bay Area playwright. Her other works include Mercy, (Santa Clara University, 20th Anniversary New Playwright’s Festival, 2024) Ball Biddies, (LezWritesBTQ, 3GirlsTheatre Company, 2023), Myth (Santa Clara University, 2022), Beach Pit (Santa Clara University, 2021), and Amendment (Filament Podcast, City Lights Theatre Company, 2020). Her short works have been performed with PlayGround Theatre’s Monday Night PlayGround Series, 3GirlsTheatre Company, Foothill College’s Brownbag Series, and Giving Individuals Fabulous Theatre.

LIVIAN YEH (The Ballad of Yuan Guan), she/her, is a Taiwanese/American writer. She’s written for Reader’s Digest, HowlRound, The Bold Italic, and StarTrek.com, among other publications. Her plays have been produced and developed at Pan Asian Rep (Memorial, NYT Critics’ Pick), Company One, Fresh Ink, Yangtze Rep, and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Her work has been supported by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, The Writers Grotto, and the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center.

ACTORS

APRIL BALLESTEROS (16 Tons, “Office Assistant”), she/her, is a multi disciplinary theatre maker. She is the Artistic Learning Programs Manager at the California Shakespeare Theater. 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 Cal State University, East Bay and hails from East LA. With every project she does, she hopes to uplift and empower BIPOC voices.

ZOE CHIEN (The Ballad of Yuan Guan, “Yuan Guan”), 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 Associate Director of 3Girls Theatre Company, and is a PlayGround Associate Producer. 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. zoechien.co

JAKE FONG (The Ballad of Yuan Guan, “Confucius”), he/him, is excited to make his debut with Monday Night PlayGround! Jake is a Bay Area actor and fight choreographer training with Dueling Arts International where he is proficient in six different weapons! Jake is currently assisting a stage combat class at A.C.T. with Dave Maier and is excited to play Le Bret in an upcoming production of Cyrano. Jake dedicates every performance to his wonderful wife Jessica and his father, who’ll always have a front row seat in his heart.

JESSICA FONG (The Ballad of Yuan Guan, “Pear”), she/her, is a multidisciplinary artist, and is excited to be performing in Monday Night PlayGround for the first time! Her most recent production was Escape to Queertopia at Bindlestiff Studio. Jessica is also a stage combatant who is certified in six different disciplines. She recently did the fight choreography for Shakespeare in Babak as part of Bindlestiff’s Stories High ‘24. She would like to thank her husband Jake and their two cats for their support and keeping her sane!

CHARLIE GRAY (Returning Pony, “Nathan”), he/they, is an Oakland-based puppeteer, actor, singer, and circus sideshow variety performer. Charlie has performed with local groups Killing My Lobster, Dandy Cabaret at SF Oasis, Rebel Kings of Oakland, Kat Robichaud’s Misfit Cabaret, Pop Culture Immersives, puppeteering troupe Shadow Circus Creature Theatre, and starred as Lou Sullivan “Lou: a San Francisco Fantasy,” a film directed by Mya Byrne which premiered at the SF Transgender Film Festival.

DOONIE LOVE (This Land is Mined Land, “Boris”), is a multi-hyphenate artist passionately storytelling through content that focuses on the intersections of performance, fashion, identity, culture, & language.

PIDGE MEADE (I’ve Looked at Clouds that Way, “Jaqui”), she/her, has understudied three shows at Berkeley Rep (Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide, Tartuffe, and Party People). Her solo show 40 Pounds in 12 Weeks: A Love Story played a 3 month run at the Marsh (SF). Favorite credits include Merrily We Roll Along (Mary), It’s a Wonderful Life (Mary), and Margaret Dumont-esque character turns with 42nd Street Moon. Most cherished are the roles she played under the direction of her husband (co-star) Dave Sikula, including Amalia (She Loves Me), Sarah Brown (Guys & Dolls), Joan (Love Song), and Celia (As You Like It). Pidge is also a Jeopardy! Champion.

CATHLEEN RIDDLEY (Whisper, “Mrs. Chapman”), she/her, began her career at the Community Playhouse in Des Moines, Iowa playing Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio at the ripe old age of 8. She is a multiple award-winning actor who has been seen at most local theaters, such as ACT, Cal Shakes, the Aurora Theatre, Center Rep, and Marin Theatre Company, to name a few. Cathleen is an Artistic Associate at Marin Shakes and a company member with Shotgun Players and PlayGround. She is a certified ASL Interpreter, has an MA in Sociology from UPenn, and is passionate about social, language, and disability justice.

PATRICK RUSSELL (Whisper, “Mr. Johnson”), he/him, most recently appeared in The Play That Goes Wrong at SF Playhouse. In addition to numerous productions at SF Playhouse, Patrick has performed at ACT, Cal Shakes, TheatreWorks, Magic Theater, Aurora Theater, Marin Shakespeare Company, Marin Theater, and Shotgun Players, among others. Directing credits include recent productions of She Kills Monsters and Stupid F***ing Bird at SF State. Patrick is a lecturer of acting and movement for actors at UC Berkeley and teaches physical theater and acting at ACT. He is a graduate of ACT’s MFA in acting program.

LOUEL SENORES (This Land is Mined Land, “Niko”), he/him, is a Berkeley-based actor and stage manager. You may have last seen him in Tea Party (One of Our Own), Dream Hou$e (Shotgun Players) or you can come see him in The Engine of our Disruption playing at Central Works now! It’s also possible you didn’t see him stage-managing Yerma (Shotgun Players) and Water by the Spoonful (SF Playhouse). He’s a proud company member of PlayGround and Berkeley Interactive Theater, which specializes in delivering custom-made EDIB workshops for universities and other intact organizations. When he’s not doing theater, Louel is likely to be found managing a frozen yogurt shop, karaoke-ing with strangers online, playing video games, and/or dueling other nerds with foam weapons. LouelSenores.com

DAVE SIKULA (I’ve Looked at Clouds that Way, “Victor”), he/him has been acting and directing in the Bay Area for more than two decades. Among his favorite roles are Samuel Beckett in Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with Andre the Giant, George Kraft in Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night, Lawrence Jameson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, and Hildy Johnson in The Front Page. As a writer, he has translated Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid and all of Anton Chekhov’s major plays (and is working on the minor plays). His version of Uncle Vanya won the BATCC Award for Best Production in the South Bay.

ISABEL ANNE TO (16 Tons, “Office Administrator/Female Example”), she/her, iis an actor, singer, and PlayGround company member based in the SF Bay Area, and always loves popping up at a Monday Night PlayGround, in addition to PlayGround SF festival productions (Starlight and Funny, Like an Abortion). She also collaborates frequently with sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster, last seen in The Skin We’re In. Other selected credits: Tea Party (One Of Our Own Theater), The Jersey Devil Play (Awesome Theatre), and Avenue Q (New Conservatory Theatre Center). Also appearing soon in two short films: Soul Credit and WIDE. Offstage, Isabel enjoys cross-stitching, baking, and traveling. www.isabelanneto.com

WAYNE WONG (16 Tons, “Office Manager/Male Example”), he/him, has played roles in over 80 productions, mostly operas. He was last seen in West Edge Opera’s production of Le Rossignol; he appears this spring as Mr. Durdles in Lamplighters Music Theatre’s production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Other engagements include SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players and Playwrights Foundation. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Brown University.

DIRECTORS

LINDA AMAYO-HASSAN (I’ve Looked at Clouds that Way), she/her, 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. Most recently, she directed To Catch a Grinch for PlayGround’s third annual A Very Hitchcock Christmas.

JIM KLEINMANN (The Ballad of Yuan Guan; 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-eight 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.

BRITTANY MELLERSON (Returning Pony), all pronouns, is a multi hyphenate designer/director with a focus in sharing black stories and cathartic experiences. Some of their most notable professional credits include residencies with PlayGround and Lamplighters Music Theatre in Lighting Design/Production Management. They also utilize an extensive concentration in Sound Design and Intimacy Coordination as a freelance artist. Outside the theatre, Brittany curates their own visions, as the Director & Visual Designer of published, archival, and live performances for their entertainment collective.

NICK MUSLEH (This Land is Mined Land) is an Artistic Associate and Dramaturg at Marin Shakespeare Company. He played “Hamlet” directed by Jon Tracy and recently performed in and co-created with Jon the Untime, an echo of Macbeth. Nick is also the director of an upcoming film adaptation of Love’s Labour’s Lost, and co-creator of the series the Rosy Cross being developed in Europe. He has directed multiple film and stage productions and has several television acting credits. He teaches acting at Laney College and Oakland School of the Arts.

KATJA RIVERA (Whisper), she/her, is a theater artist/massage therapist/Abuela, hails from Los Angeles. She’s a Shotgun Players Company member, and an associate producer for PlayGround.
Recent shows: Yerma (Shotgun), La Vida Lobo (Theater Cultura), References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Custom Made Theatre), and Apertures of Love in Times of War (PlayGround).

JENNA STEIN-CORMAN (16 Tons), she/her, is a theatre artist who works with schools and theaters across the Bay Area as an educator, stage manager, and director. She has worked for the SF Mime Troupe, The Berkeley Playhouse, Musical Theatre Works, Town Hall Theatre, and Golden Thread Productions, to name a few. She particularly enjoys directing shows with themes of social justice. This is her third year with PlayGround, and she is grateful to be a member of the PlayGround community.

PRODUCTION

LIAM KIRK (Stage Manager), he/him, is PlayGround’s Resident Stage Manager.

K’ZHANE MCGILL (Box Office Manger).

PLAYGROUND, founded in 1994 by Jim Kleinmann, Brighde Mullins and Denise Shama, has grown into one of this nation’s leading playwright incubators and theatre community hubs, with a core commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, helping to uplift and center artists from historically underrepresented communities. Over three decades, PlayGround has supported more than 300 early-career playwrights, developing and staging over 1,500 of their original short plays through PlayGround’s signature programs, Monday Night PlayGround and the PlayGround Festival of New Works. PlayGround has also commissioned 100 new full-length plays by 60 of these writers through its Commissioning Initiative and has directly facilitated the premiere of 36 of those works through its innovative New Play Production Fund. Over the past 29 years, PlayGround has developed a unique model for identifying and nurturing some of this country’s best new writers, while helping them to build a significant body of original work and lasting connections with the artistic collaborators they need to know to ensure their success. PlayGround expanded to Los Angeles in 2012, to NYC in 2021, and to Chicago in 2022.

In 2015, PlayGround signed a long-term lease to operate the former Thick House Theater (San Francisco), where PlayGround has produced its festival since 2008. Following a successful $300,000 renovation, PlayGround reopened the theatre in February 2017 as Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays. In addition to supporting PlayGround’s expanding new play programs (including the PlayGround Solo Performance Festival launched in 2018, as well as Free-Play Festival and “Twisted” Holiday Show, both launched in 2022), the theatre serves as home for some of the Bay Area’s leading new play developers and producers. In 2019, PlayGround launched the Innovator Incubator, fostering theatrical innovation and next generation innovative theatre companies. The program culminates in the annual Innovators Showcase, which takes place each November, featuring over half-a-dozen new works, from developmental readings to full premieres, by the year’s Innovator Incubator cohort. PlayGround has fostered 13 new companies through this program.

Following the closure of theaters due to the pandemic in 2020, PlayGround was one of the first theatres in the country to shift all of its programming online, with the launch of the PlayGround Zoom Fest and a unique partnership with the performers union, SAG-AFTRA. With the return of in-person performance, PlayGround recommitted to radical accessibility with admission-free programming and online simulcast and on-demand streaming of all performances.

PlayGround’s alumni have gone on to win local, national, and international honors for their short and full-length work, including recognition at the Steinberg Awards, Glickman Awards (including 6 of the last 10), Humana Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 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.

In addition to its company of playwrights, PlayGround maintains a company of leading local directors, actors, designers and technicians whose work is regularly seen on the top professional stages in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and at regional theatres across the country. PlayGround has actively positioned itself as a hub, bringing together hundreds of individuals and organizations representing the best in local theatre. For more information about PlayGround, visit https://playground-sf.org.

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.

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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 February 1, 2024 & February 17, 2025.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • Art Space Development Corporation • Avenue Greenlight • Berkeley Civic Arts • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • 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 • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Daniel E. Cohn & Lynn Brinton, John H. Gilman, Isabella Johnson, Nitin

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, Jediah Craig, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Regina Guggenheim, Just Play Productions, Linda Kremer, Ronald Whittier Family Foundation, Daniele Nathanson, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, John J. Ruskin, Tom Swift, Malachy Walsh & Heather Robison, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Phoenix Theatre SF, Jim Brayton & Debbie Marr, Richard Davis – Lowell, Paulette Donsavage, Kate Hecht, Toby Inoue, Diane Leonard, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Diane Sampson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Janine Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (2)

PATRON ($250-$499)

Nina Ball & Jon Tracy, Ruben & Keli Grijalva, Patience Haggin, Brandy T Jones, Abbe S. Kalos & Kitt Saginor, Dr. Gary W.  London, Rebecca Martinez, Christopher Reber, Chris & Cindy Redburn, JM Solberg, Anonymous (2)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Dr. & Mrs. Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Ms. Portia F. Bock, Cass Brayton, Thomas Patrick Broyhill, Joyce Dieda, Clint Fleener, Michael Fried, Gina Harris, Stanley William Hathaway, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Jean Jensen, Gregg Le Blanc, Mildred Inez Lewis, Pam MacKinnon, Clover Rutkowski, Mark Peters, Ms. Jessica Rofé, Margo Rofé, Carolina Rojas Moretti, Kathy Sarconi, Stan Stone, Bex White, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Anonymous

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 (833) 992-6677.

PlayGround-SF Writers Pool 2024-25

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, Antonio 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

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
Jacinta Kaumbulu, 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
K’Zhane McGill, Box Office Mananager
Liam Kirk, Resident Stage Manager

PlayGround Ambassadors

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

PlayGround Equity Workgroup

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

PlayGround Board

Stephanie Prentice, Chair
James A. Kleinmann, President
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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