PlayGround presents Season 32

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND-SF

“Murder Mystery”
October 20th, 2025 7pm PT
David Brower Center & 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! 

To learn more about the Monday Night PlayGround membership program, click here.

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The Final File
by Kimberly Ridgeway
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Dana Lewis………….Maryssa Wanlass

Certified Super Sleuth
by Daniel Martinez Jr
Directed by Claire Ganem
Assistant Directed by Saffron Quinn
Marge…………..Annette Amelia Oliveira

A Study of Murder
by Laura Domingo
Directed by Norman Gee
Assistant Directed by Lindsey Abbott
Viola……………………Isabel Anne To

Death of a Black Orchid
by Stan Stone
Directed by Tanika Baptiste
Bertie…………………..Cathleen Riddley

The Grandmother Paradox
by Bridgette Dutta Portman
Directed by Adam L. Sussman
Jina……………………Rebecca Pingree

I Did It
by Chris Steele
Directed by Tracy Ward
Assistant Directed by River Bermudez Sanders
Woman…………………….Liliana Serpa

Stage Manager – Liora Jacob

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 (A Study of Murder), 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.

DANIEL MARTINEZ JR. (Certified Super Sleuth), he/him, is an award winning playwright and actor based in San Jose, CA. This is his third season in the Writers Pool and he feels so lucky to get to write stories with some amazing people. Daniel recently debuted his one-act play, Vodka Cran. Daniel has also been featured in Best of Playground. Daniel debuted his latest one-man play, What’s in a Name?, in Playground’s Solo Festival this past January. Daniel was also recently named a semi-finalist in Nosotros’ Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam, for his comedic monologue “Honey Walnut Shrimp.” He’s excited you’re here!

BRIDGETTE DUTTA PORTMAN (The Grandmother Paradox), 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 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.

KIMBERLY RIDGEWAY (The Finale File), she/her, is an award winning Playwright, Actor, and Director. She is a Playground company member, is in the Actor’s Pool, Director’s Pool and is in 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.

CHRIS STEELE (I Did It), they/she, is a queer trans nonbinary performance artist, writer, and activist. Their work centers on highlighting queer narratives throughout history and combating bigotry and white supremacy. 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 currently the Curation Director of Cutting Ball Theatre.

STAN STONE (Death of a Black Orchid), he/him, wrote and illustrated comic books at the ripe old age of 10, and he’s been writing ever since. Performing Improv as an adult helped hone his storytelling skills. Presently, he is a published poet, actor, screenwriter and playwright. His play, Trouble The Water, was a highlight of the recent AfroSolo Festival. Stan also wrote and performed a solo piece at The Marsh SF, bringing the audience to tears (in a good way).

ACTORS

ANNETTE AMELIA OLIVEIRA (Certified Super Sleuth), she/her, has played women (and men) who are wise, fierce, sometimes losing marbles, often Latinx.  She’s performed in Shakespeare plays at Marin’s redwood-ringed Curtain Theatre. She played every role imaginable for SF’s Shoestring Radio Theatre. Now specializing in audiobooks, she has recorded for Penguin-Random House, Scholastic and Audible. Check out her website at annettenarrates.com. Check out her website at annettenarrates.com.

REBECCA PINGREE (The Grandmother Paradox, “Jina”), she/her, is delighted to return to Best of, having been a member of PlayGround’s Acting Company for over a decade. Most recently she played Adira in Exodus to Eden at OTP, Bridget Potter in the original cast of The Kilbanes’ The Code with ACT YC, and The Baker’s Wife in Sondheim’s Into the Woods at Berkeley Playhouse. She holds an MFA in Collaborative Theatremaking from Rose Bruford in London and co-founded Analog Theatre (analogtheatre.org) a member of PlayGround’s IN2 cohort.

CATHLEEN RIDDLEY (Death of a Black Orchid, “Bertie”), 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.

ISABEL ANNE TO (A Study of Murder, “Viola”), she/her, is an actor, singer, and PlayGround company member based in the SF Bay AreaShe’s been thrilled to perform 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). She’ll also appear soon in the short film WIDE, and is working on a feature film called Soul Credit. Offstage, Isabel enjoys cross-stitching, baking, and traveling. www.isabelanneto.com

MARYSSA WANLASS (The Final File, “Dana Lewis”), she/they, is a PlayGround company member and local actor, director, and educator. Acting credits include SF Shakes (Much Ado, Pericles, As You Like It, Hamlet, and Winter’s Tale), CalShakes (As You Like It), San Jose Stage (Persuasion), SPARC (As You Like It, Hamlet, Merry Wives of Windsor), Center REPertory Company (Sweat, Enchanted April, Witness for the Prosecution), Woman’s Will (Much Ado, Good Person of Szechuan). She has directed professionally for SF Shakes, Utopia Theatre Project, PlayGroundSF, Shotz, and Advice to the Players. They also teach improv to California’s incarcerated population with Red Ladder, and created a storytelling program for unhoused community members with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.

LILIANA SERPA (New Body, Same Soul, “Kimmy”), she/they, started acting by chance while a student at College of Marin, afterwards she earned a BFA in theatre from UCSB. Most recently she’s performed with Left Coast Theatre Company in The Future is Queer and Found Family, Berkeley Shakespeare Company in Julius Caesar and Cymbeline, Contra Costa Civic Theatre in Fairview, and Actor’s Ensemble of Berkeley in The Imaginary Invalid, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Room with a View.

DIRECTORS

JIM KLEINMANN (The Final File; 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.

CLAIRE GANEM (Certified Super Sleuth), she/her, is a Bay Area-based theatre director who specializes in new play development. Her work is radically collaborative and aims to connect people to their inner selves, the natural world, and each other in joyous, loving, and empowering ways. Claire is a current company member and ambassador at Playground SF. In addition to Playground, her work has been seen at Cutting Ball Theatre. Town Hall Theatre, 3Girls Theatre, Z Below, Pianofight, Left Coast Theatre Company, and Magic Theatre, where she was an artistic direction apprentice during their 2018-2019 season. Claire is a current lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and a naturalist at local parks around the East Bay.

NORMAN GEE (A Study of Murder), he/him, is the Artistic Director of Oakland Public Theater (OPT), and Associate Producer with PlayGround-SF where he regularly directs. Norman also acts with companies including A.C.T., SF-Shakes, San Jose Stage, Livermore Shakes /SPARC & SF Mime Troupe. Last year Gee produced OPT’s INVENTORY/James Baldwin Abroad, celebrating Baldwin’s centennial, a final project with recently deceased playwright Richard Talavera. There is a memorial honoring Richard at the Mission Cultural Center in SF on Oct.26. November Norman performs in My Obsession with HamletMachine at Dance Mission, and possibly a new work with Word For Word at ZSpace-SF in Spring 2026.

TRACY WARD (I Did It),

TANIKA BAPTISTE (Death of a Black Orchid), she/they, is an actor, director, and theatre artist recognized for her powerful stage presence and versatility. A proud AEA and SDC member, she has performed with acclaimed companies including San Francisco Playhouse, Magic Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and Berkeley Playhouse. Known for dynamic performances in *Waitress the Musical*, *Sister Act*, *Nollywood Dreams*, and *Dreamgirls*, Tanika brings depth, humor, and authenticity to every role. A UC Davis graduate with a B.A. in African and African American Studies, she has also trained extensively in Shakespeare, voice, and dance, continuing to shape stories that celebrate Black artistry and resilience.

ADAM L. SUSSMAN (The Grandmother Paradox), he/him is a director, creative producer, educator, and occasionally, a writer. His work celebrates the often overlooked chaos of daily life: the complex tensions of family and friendship, the tangled cultural ideas that shape us, and the times when our beliefs are tested by forces beyond our control. He has worked with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, Playwrights Foundation, Custommade Theatre, Theater First, and The Theater Offensive. He received his MFA from UT Austin and has taught at the American Conservatory Theater and in the MFA Creative Writing program at SF State. AdamLSussman.com

PRODUCTION

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-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.

TANIKA BAPTISTE (Executive Producer), she/they, is an actor, director, and theatre artist recognized for her powerful stage presence and versatility. A proud AEA and SDC member, she has performed with acclaimed companies including San Francisco Playhouse, Magic Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and Berkeley Playhouse. Known for dynamic performances in *Waitress the Musical*, *Sister Act*, *Nollywood Dreams*, and *Dreamgirls*, Tanika brings depth, humor, and authenticity to every role. A UC Davis graduate with a B.A. in African and African American Studies, she has also trained extensively in Shakespeare, voice, and dance, continuing to shape stories that celebrate Black artistry and resilience.

ZOE CHIEN (Casting Director, Associate Producer), 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.

K’ZHANE MCGILL (Stage Manager, 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.

Coming Soon

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 October 1, 2024 & October 17, 2025.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • Art Space Development Corporation • Berkeley Civic Arts • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • Fleishhacker Foundation • 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 • SF Shines • The Shubert Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Emilie & Gordon Brooks, Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Keith Goldstein & Donna Warrington, Regina Guggenheim, Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman, Craig Moody

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Randy Adams, John Gilman, Kathryn Hecht, Nitin, Jessica June Rowe, Darryl Wilburn, Christian Wilburn, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Jahnavi Alyssa, Linda Amayo-Hassan, Meriko Borogove, Anne & Kevin Brady, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Sheila Collins, Jediah Craig, Elizabeth Dudak, David Goldman, Greg Gorel, Jonathan Josephson, Linda Kremer, Tobi Marcus, Rebecca Martinez, Molly Noble, Berlanti Family Foundation, Kendall Phillips, Doug Peckler & Evelyn Jean Pine, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, Kathryn Ryan, Miyoko Sakatani, Diane Sampson, Kurt Taylor, William & Sharon Thompson, Jeffrey Trescott, Hechale Productions, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Tanvi Agrawal, Jim Brayton, Ben Cain, Lydia R. Diamond, Philip Gotanda, Toby Inoue, Jacqueline Kubicka, Bram McGinnis, Jenny Rand, Kitt Saginor, Anonymous, Janine Wilburn

Maury Zeff

PATRON ($250-$499)

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Ruth Brayton, Mara Gaudette, Matt Schwartz & Karen Levesque, Alex Loddengaard, Gary London, Alan Maass, Pam Mackinnon, Anonymous, Cindy Redburn, George Rose, Jerome Solberg, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Mia Taylor, Robin Wimsatt

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Sharon Baldwin, Marilyn Cooper, Clint Fleener, Wilmina Jensen, Abbe Kalos, Abbe Kalos, Ellen Loebl, Mark Peters, Abigail Rosen, Anonymous, Stephen & Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, Bex White, 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 (833) 992-6677.

PlayGround-SF Writers Pool 2025-26

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Paul Braverman, Robyn Brooks, Madeleine Butler, Melina Cohen-Bramwell, Jediah Craig, Laura Domingo, Garret Groenveld, KT Frances Hartline, Carl Andrew Johnson, Ruth Kirschner, Greg Lam, Justin P. Lopez, Daniel Martinez Jr, Gillian O’Leary, Richard Perez, James Perry, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Jan Probst, Kimberly Ridgeway, George Rose, Sophie Ruf, Sanjit Sengupta, Greg Sigur, Chris Steele, Stan Stone, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Maury Zeff

PlayGround Resident Playwrights

San Francisco: Monique Adams, Madeleine Butler*, Laura Domingo**, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Daniel Martinez Jr., Christian Wilburn; Los Angeles: Summer Broyhill, Amy Ellenberger, Paris Herbert-Taylor, Jonathan Josephson, Mercedes Segesvary, Baylee Shlichtman*; New York: Saiya Floyd, Howard Ho, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Wade Lawrence Hollomon, Lyra Nalan, Camron Wright*; Chicago: Anne Brady*, Jessie Bond, alfonzo kahlil, Juliet Kang Huneke, Karissa Murrell Myers, Katherine Swan.

* Playwrights under commission for the 2025-26 season
** June Anne Baker Award Winner

PlayGround Company

Molly Aaronson-Gelb, Angel Adedokun, Linda Amayo-Hassan, Liz Anderson, Rinabeth Apostol, Michael Asberry, Michael Barrett Austin, Mary Baird, April Ballesteros, Tanika Baptiste, Aldo Billingslea, Julia Brothers, Nicole Apostol Bruno, Lizzie Calogero, Ron Campbell, Nancy, Carlin, Joy Carlin, Ben Chau-Chiu, Zoe Chien, 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, Britney Frazier, Michael French, Claire, Ganem, Norman Gee, Douglas B. Giorgis, Linda Giron, Amy Glazer, Leon Goertzen, Cindy Goldfield, BW Gonzalez, GG Grilli, Rudy Guerrero, Karina Gutierrez, Rosie Hallett, Katherine Hamilton, Matthew Hanjoong, Eric Fraisher Hayes, Brian Herndon, Champagne Hughes, J Jha, Christian, Jimenez, Colin Johnson, Jacinta Kaumbulu, Emily Keyishian, Jennifer King, Tessa Koning-Martinez, Randy Lee, Danielle Levin, Amy Lizardo, Jeffrey Lo, Gwen Loeb, Charisse Loriaux, George Maguire, Melanie Marshall, Alicia Mason, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Julia McNeal, Sam Misner, Eiko Moon-Yamamoto, Brady Morales-Woolery, Carolina Morones, Lisa Morse, Khary L. Moye, Sakura Nakahara, Molly Noble, Karen Offereins, Annette Oliveira, Soren Oliver, Ely Orquiza, Tony Ortega, Doyle Ott, June Palladino, Carla Pantoja, Louis Parnell, Jed Parsario, Michael, Phillis, Krystle Piamonte, Rebecca Pingree, Stephanie Prentice, Ezra Reaves, Ginny 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 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, Director of Development 
Jonathan Josephson, Director of Marketing & Communications 
Stephanie Prentice, Education Coordinator
Tanika Baptiste, MNP Executive Producer 
Norman Gee, MNP Associate Producer 
Katja Rivera, MNP Associate Producer 
Zoe Chien, MNP Associate Producer & Casting Director 
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer & Technical Director 
K’Zhane McGill, Box Office Manager 
Donna Fondjo, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Jordan Don, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Juliana Morgado Brito, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Devin Cunningham, 2025-26 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

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

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