PlayGround Presents Season 29

One PlayGround Festival

Multi-day Festival and Conference Celebrating the National PlayGround Community

June 2-4, 2023 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.

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.

PRODUCERS ROUNDTABLE
Friday, June 2nd 2023 7pm

Jim Kleinmann, Stephanie Prentice, Tessa Corrie, Norman Gee, Jully Lee,
Paris McCarthy, Katja Rivera, Devin Christor, Brooke-Erin Smith

PLAYWRIGHT SLAM
Friday, June 2nd 2023 8pm

Christian Wilburn, Allie Costa, Joe Luis Cedillo, Dana Hall, Mildred Inez Lewis
Cass Brayton, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Michael Waterson, Rebbekah Vega-Romero

BEST OF THE BEST OF PLAYGROUND
Saturday, June 3rd 2023

Gallows Humor
by Bridgette Dutta Portman
Directed by Khalia Davis
Lisa……………….Karen Offereins
Mia…..……Nicole Apostol Bruno

Watermelon Love
by MJ Kang
Directed by Frieda de Lackner
Nell………………..Christine Liao
Simon…………Christian Haines

Tomato Tattoo
by Rammel Chan
Directed by Spencer Ryan Diedrick
Natalie…………..….Annette Oliveira
Richard……..………….David Cramer

The Holiday Party
by Gaven D. Trinidad
Directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza
Skip…………….Hector Zavala
Don.……………….Gary Poux
Ely…………….Jomar Tagatac
Hasan….Wiley Naman Strasser

Stage Manager: Jenna Stein-Corman

This live stream is produced under a SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement.

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group.

Biographies

PLAYWRIGHTS

RAMMEL CHAN (Tomato Tattoo), he/him, is a writer and actor based in Chicago. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Riksha, Empyrean Literary Magazine and the Tiger Moth Review. His full-length play “House of the Deaf” was read as part of the Gift Theater’s In The Work series. As an actor, he has performed at Steppenwolf, Goodman Theater, the Second City, Writers Theatre, and the late Victory Gardens, among others. On screen credits include The Red Line, Crisis, Patriot and the indie comedy feature I Used To Go Here. He is currently costarring in Lucy & Charlie’s Honeymoon at Lookingglass Theater Company.he/him, is an aspiring playwright hoping to one day get it right.

MJ KANG (Watermelon Love), she/her, is a playwright, actor, director and improvisor. She’s been awarded The Breathe Project 2022 New Play award, Theater J’s Expanding The Canon award (2022-24) and has been commissioned by Portland Playhouse, Shotgun Players, Blyth Festival Theater, Shakespeare in Action and AFO Solo Shorts (twice). Her plays have been produced in Toronto, NYC, and Los Angeles by Tarragon Theater, Theater Passe Muraille, Factory Theater, The Barrow Group, Cahoots Theater Projects, Raising Sun, Son of Semele, PlayGround-LA, East-West Players, Pan Asian Rep and many others.

BRIDGETTE DUTTA PORTMAN (Gallows Humor), she/her, is a playwright and novelist based in Fremont, CA. More than two dozen of her plays have been produced locally, nationally, and overseas. She is past president of the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco and is a board member of the Pear Theatre, a teaching artist with Dragon Theatre, and a member of the Pear Writers’ Guild and Dramatists’ Guild. She 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 from Spalding University.

GAVEN D. TRINIDAD (The Holiday Party), they/he/siya, is a first generation Filipinx American theatremaker from NYC and is currently New York Theatre Workshop’s Community Engagement Associate. His artistic work examines the intersections of race, immigration, queerness, ritual, and community. He’s collaborated with folx in various administrative and artistic positions at places such as The Juilliard Drama Division, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Roundabout Theatre, May-Yi Theater Company, and the Arts Project of Cherry Grove. Theatre Communications Group named him as a member of the 2021 Rising Leaders of Color Cohort. He is an advocate for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. https://www.gaventrinidadtheatre.com

ACTORS

NICOLE APOSTOL BRUNO (Gallows Humor, “Mia”)

DAVID CRAMER (Tomato Tattoo, “Richard”), he/him, with a BFA from UNM, studies at RADA in London, HB Studios in NYC and the Harvey Lembeck Comedy Improv Workshop in LA, has worked locally at The Magic, SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players, The Marin Theatre Company and Word For Word among others. Television and Film roles include M*A*S*H, The Waltons, How the West Was Won and Nash Bridges. He has been a proud company member of Playground since 2009.

CHRISTIAN HAINES (Watermelon Love, “Simon”), he/him, loves Playground! Past PGSF shows include Sapience, Anna Considers Mars, Value Over Replacement and tons of Monday Nights. Other credits include Straight White Men (MTC) Reginald and Ruckus, The Moonrisers (Moonrisers), Operation Ajax (Little Fish), Jihad Jones (Perspective) Death of a Salesman, This is Our Youth (ATSF) and a bunch more. Currently he is doing a bunch of student films, studying with UCB and trying to figure out LA. He holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory and loves his wife, Melissa Ortiz.

CHRISTINE LIAO (Watermelon Love, “Nell”), she/her, is a Los Angeles based actor. Her best known role thus far is as the restaurant cashier in the comedy sketch, The ABC Who Can’t Read Chinese. You can also find her in Fine China on HBO platforms and the video game Life is Strange: True Colors. She recently received Best Actress in Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase for her role in ‘Call for Cassie.’

KAREN OFFEREINS (Gallows Humor, “Lisa”), she/her, is a company member of PlayGround and was last seen on stage in Quicksand Club Sketch Comedy. Recent credits include EVOLUTION (Ferocious Lotus, where she is also a company member), How to Transcend a Happy Marriage (Custom Made Theatre Company), Elevada (Shotgun Players), and Two Mile Hollow (Ferocious Lotus). Past credits include Phèdre (Cutting Ball Theater), The Potrero Nuevo Project (PlayGround), The Rules (SF Playhouse), The Mousetrap, Top Girls, and Our Town (Shotgun Players), The Pain and the Itch (Custom Made Theatre Company), and Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Big Funk, and No Exit (AtmosTheatre).

ANNETTE OLIVEIRA‘s (Tomato Tattoo, “Natalie”), she/her, theatre roles include quite a few women (and men) of a certain age these days…some wise, some fierce, some losing marbles, many Latina. She has performed at many East Coast and Bay Area theatres. She played Shakespearean roles at Marin’s redwood-ringed Curtain Theatre. She narrates fiction and non-fiction audiobooks for Learning Ally — often bilingually. She was honored to play in Hector Zavala’s 40, Latino, Single and Gay web series. Annette has acted via Zoom for Altarena, Central Works and Contra Costa Civic Theatres, for Fruitlessmoon Theatreworks and, of course, for Playground.

GARY POUX (The Holiday Party, “Don”), he/him, lives in Los Angeles but is thrilled and honored to shared the stage with his Bay Area PlayGround family.

WILEY NAMAN STRASSER (The Holiday Party, “Hassan”), he/him, is a bicoastal actor, dancer, and musician. Recent work includes projects with The Civilians, Chicago Dramatists, Ashland New Plays Festival, Golden Thread, and Detour Dance. Other credits include work with San Francisco Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, and world premieres with Magic Theatre, Crowded Fire, Cutting Ball, Los Angeles Theater Center, and Hope Mohr Dance. Wiley has studied with Pig Iron, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Yuyachkani (Lima), Teatr Zar (Wrocław), and received his degree from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. wileynamanstrasser.com

JOMAR TAGATAC (The Holiday Party, “Ely”), he/him, previously played Gordon Hirabayashi in Hold These Truths here at San Francisco Playhouse in collaboration with Capital Stage in Sacramento. He also played Marc in Art and Actor 1 in King of the Yees here at the Playhouse. Other credits include Bob in Wintertime (Berkeley Repertory Theater) the role of DJ Loki in Today is My Birthday (Theater Mu), Mr. Botard in Rhinoceros, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, the Playwright and others in Vietgone, Fortinbras in Hamlet (American Conservatory Theater), George in The Language Archive (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), Quang in Vietgone (Capital Stage Company and City Lights Theater), The War of the Roses, Macbeth, Everybody, and As You Like It (California Shakespeare Theater), and The Happy Ones and Dogeaters (Magic Theatre). Jomar received a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Excellence in Theatre Award for Principal Actor in a Play and a TBA Award for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role. He earned an MFA from American Conservatory Theater.

HECTOR ZAVALA (The Holiday Party, “Skip”), he/they, is considered a chameleon in a thousand ways. He mixes his studies in Performative Art, Acting, Dance, Multimedia, Costumes, Set Design and his love for theater to instill his own style of culturalism, carrying with him the weight of the universal struggle to defend one’s own. He has participated in international festivals such as FITLA, (International Latin Theater Festival of Los Angeles.), the Edinburgh Theater Festival and the Ibero-American Art Festival. He has collaborated with greats from the “Chicano” community and toured his One Man Show “Seeking the Last Gay Man.”

DIRECTORS

KHALIA DAVIS (Gallows Humor), she/her, is a multidisciplinary artist and former artistic director of Bay Area Children’s Theatre specializing in the creation of new work for family audiences. As a director and arts educator, she has worked on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally with prominent theaters all over the country. Awards: 2019 Emerging Leader Fellowship-TYA/USA, 2019 NYCCT Leader Fellowship, 2021 Corey Medallion Award-Children’s Theatre Foundation of America. BA in Theater Arts from the University of Southern California www.khaliadavis.com!

SPENCER RYAN DIEDRICK (Tomato Tattoo), he/him, is thrilled to return to PlayGround, this time as a brand-new company member! Chicago directing credits include THE DELIVERY (Inclusive Playwrights Project), THEM (Broken Nose Theatre), BLACK CAT LOST (Red Tape Theatre), FRAGMENTED (Our Perspective), HERSHEL AND THE HANUKKAH GOBLINS (Strawdog Theatre), DESIRE, DESIRE, DESIRE (Eclipse Theatre), and SWEET SIXTEEN EXTRAVAGANZA!!! (Blue Goose Ensemble). Regional: LEWISTON/CLARKSTON and the upcoming ONCE at GhostLight Theatre in Benton Harbor, MI. He is eternally thankful for his friends, family and community.

FRIEDA DE LACKNER (Watermelon Love), she/her, is a theater and short film director and producer. She recently turned Scott Mullen’s play, 172 Push-Ups, from Playground LA, into a short film starring Playground actors Krystal Mosley, Christina Wren, Jahnavi Alyssa, and Jon Gentry. 

ELY SONNY ORQUIZA (The Holiday Party), he/him, is a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree, a multidisciplinary Queer Filipino artistic director, stage director, and arts educator native to San Francisco Bay Area, the unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone People. Through theater and the performing arts Orquiza illuminates the experiences of the Asian diaspora, explores the politics of Queer/ness, and gives voice to the narratives of People from the Global Majority. As an artist, Orquiza draws on his heritage and lived experiences to create stunning theatrical productions that captivate audiences and spark meaningful conversations about equity and representation. Through his art and advocacy, he is breaking down barriers and elevating marginalized voices; and as a passionate teacher and community leader, Orquiza uses his extensive background in teaching artistry to engage with diverse communities and non-profit organizations, creating spaces for creativity, collaboration, and empowerment. To keep in touch and learn more about Ely’s works: elysonnyorquiza.org

PRODUCTION & STAFF

JAMES GOODE (Sound Designer), he/him, is a sound designer, composer, audio engineer, musician, and songwriter based in the Bay Area. He’s collaborated with actors, animators, visual artists, writers, and other musicians and composers on a wide variety of projects, including films, gallery and museum installations, live performances, music videos, podcasts, and radio dramas. Local theater productions he’s done sound design for include The Glass Menagerie, Echoes of US: Now and Always, and Richard II (AASC), As You Like It (SF Playhouse), Native Gardens (Center REP), and Pool of Unknown Wonders: Undertow of the Soul (Oakland Theater Project). https://jamesgoodesound.com

JENNA STEIN-CORMAN (Stage Manager), she/her, grew up immersed in the Bay Area theatre community. From her first theatre class, at age 5, she fell in love with the art form. Jenna is now a teaching artist, stage manager, and director. She currently works with many local arts organizations including the Berkeley Playhouse, Town Hall Theatre, and SF Playground.

JIM KLEINMANN (Artistic Director & Co-Founder), he/him, co-founded PlayGround in 1994, along with playwright Brighde Mullins and director Denise Shama, and has served as Artistic Director since 1996. For PlayGround, he has provided artistic and administrative leadership for the past twenty-four seasons, developing PlayGround’s unique array of new playwright and new play incubator programs, including Monday Night PlayGround, the PlayGround Festival of New Works, the full-length play Commissioning Initiative, the New Play Production Fund, Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays, and most recently the Innovator Incubator. For PlayGround, he has directed more than one hundred short and full-length plays, including works by Garret Jon Groenveld, Aaron Loeb, Geetha Reddy, Lauren Yee, Katie May, and many others. Recent directing and dramaturgy credits include David Steele’s Vignettes on Love and Ruben Grijalva’s Value Over Replacement. He is a veteran arts administrator with more than thirty years of experience, including stints leading Traveling Jewish Theatre, Smuin Ballet and Berkeley Symphony, and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

PLAYGROUND, California’s leading playwright incubator, provides unique development opportunities for the Bay Area’s, Los Angeles’ and now New York’s best new playwrights, including the monthly Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, full-length play commissions and support for the production of new plays by local playwrights through the New Play Production Fund. To date, PlayGround has supported over 250 early career playwrights, developing and staging more than 1000 of their original short plays through the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series and the PlayGround Festival. PlayGround has also commissioned 90 new full-length plays by 60 of these writers through its Commissioning Initiative and, through the innovative New Play Production Fund, has directly facilitated the premiere of 34 plays at theatres of every size, including three that have gone on to NYC and other major theater communities. Most recently, PlayGround renovated and relaunched the former Thick House Theater in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill as Potrero Stage, a state-of-the-art center for new plays, home to PlayGround’s expanding artistic programs and some of the Bay Area’s most distinguished new play developers and producers. Over the past twenty-four years, PlayGround has served to identify some of the most important new local voices for the theatre. PlayGround’s alumni have gone on to win local, national, and international honors for their short and full-length work, including recognition at the Humana Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Lark’s Playwrights’ Week, New York International Fringe Festival, and others. PlayGround received the 2009 Paine Knickerbocker Award for outstanding contributions to Bay Area theatre, 3 BATCC Awards for Best Original Script for PlayGround commissions, a 2014 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (founder of the Tony Awards®), and a 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Visit https://PlayGround-sf.org for more information.

POTRERO STAGE is a 99-seat state-of-the-art performance space located in the heart of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, operated by PlayGround, and serving as home to some of the Bay Area’s leading new play developers and producers, including PlayGround, Crowded Fire, Golden Thread, and Playwrights Foundation, among others. While the venue is closed during the COVID pandemic, Potrero Stage will highlight the best in online programming by PlayGround, Potrero Stage resident companies and other Potrero Stage producers. For more information, visit https://potrerostage.org.

PlayGround Contributors

PlayGround is deeply grateful for the generous contributions of the many individuals, foundations, gifts of $125 or more committed between January 1, 2022 & January 16, 2023.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • Art Space Development Corporation • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • California Humanities • California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program • Creative Capacity Fund • First Republic Bank • The Fleishhacker Foundation • Grants For The Arts • Koret Foundation • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Zellerbach Family Foundation

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Jerome Joseph Gentes & Michael Bourque, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Peggy Haas, David Steele

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500–$4,999)

Meriko Borogove, John H. Gilman, Regina S. Guggenheim, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Linda Kremer, Rebecca Martinez, Nitin, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Anonymous (6)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Ruth & Robert Brayton, Thomas Patrick Broyhill, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Kelly & Carlos Delgado, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna Warrington, Jeff Gregory, Regina S. Guggenheim, Kathryn A Hecht, Lisa A. Mammel, Lisa Morse, Ray Riegert, Maury Zeff, Anonymous

PATRON ($250-$499)

Wendy Bear, Jack Codd, Jean and Norm Reynolds, Maria Ross, Diane Sampson, Jerome Solberg, Annie Stuart, Janine Wilburn, Robin L. Wimsatt, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Anonymous (2)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Sharon Baldwin and Joseph Ganem, Gerhard and Kathleen Bette, Dr. Katherine Ardis Blenko, Frieda de Lackner, Michael Fried, Mr. Eric Garcia, Tom Goetzl, Cindy Goldfield, Mr. Stanley William Hathaway, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Abbe S. Kalos & Kitt Saginor, Jennifer King, Gregg Le Blanc, Jonathan Luskin, Paris McCarthy, Everett & Julia Moore, Louis Parnell, Dr. Alan Pearl, Madeline Daly Puccioni , Jesus Reyes, Emily Brauer Rogers, Mike Rosenthal, Christine Sheppard, Liam Vincent, Bex White, Christian Edward Wilburn, 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 (415) 992-6677.

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PLAYGROUND WRITERS COMPANY

Monique Hafen Adams, Barbara Anderson, Nicole Bruno, Madeleine Butler, Allie Costa+, Jediah Craig, Cherielyn Ferguson, Ipsheeta Furtado, Bailey Jordan Garcia+, Lauren Gorski,+ Aaron Higareda+, Sam Hurwitt, Tejahra Jacobs, Lisa Kang, Ruth Kirschner, Anne Yumi Kobori+, Steve Koppman, Jennifer Le Blanc+, Kristy Lin Billuni, Justin P. Lopez+, David MacFadden-Elliott, Daniel Martinez, Alanna McFall+, Bacilio Mendez II, Matthew Morishige, Vicky Pham, Bridgette Portman, Alexis Roblan, Jessica Rowe+, Anthony Sampson Semandiris, David Schweidel, Tony Sciullo, Marissa Skudlarek, Alexis Standridge, Max Tachis, Lisa Thompson, Eteya Trinidad, Michael Tuton, Kaz Valtchev, Daysha Veronica+, Michael Waterson, Christian Wilburn+, Maggie Wilson+, Maury Zeff
+ Resident Playwright

PLAYGROUND COMPANY

Molly Aaronson-Gelb, Angel Adedokun, Patrick Alparone, Liz Anderson, Rinabeth Apostol, Michael Asberry, Michael Barrett Austin, Mary Baird, Aldo Billingslea, Millie Brooks, Julia Brothers, Nicole Apostol Bruno, Lizzie Calogero, Ron Campbell, Joy Carlin, Nancy Carlin, Tessa Corrie, David Cramer, Will Dao, Anne Darragh, Dodds Delzell, Livia Gomes Demarchi, Carolyn Doyle, Nora el Samahy, Rebecca Ennals, Gisela Feied, Britney Frazier, Michael French, Claire Ganem, Sarah Gasser, Norman Gee, Douglas B. Giorgis, Amy Glazer, Cindy Goldfield, BW Gonzalez, Gabriel Grilli, Christian Haines, Rosie Hallett, Eric Fraisher Hayes, Brian Herndon, Monica Ho, Laura Humphrey, 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, Bacilio Mendez II, Sam Misner, Brady Morales-Woolery, Lisa Morse, Khary L. Moye, Molly Noble, Joseph Patrick O’Malley, Karen Offereins, Annete Oliveira, Soren Oliver, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Melissa Ortiz, Doyle Ott, June Palladino, Carla Pantoja, Louis Parnell,​​ Jed Parsario, Michael Phillis, Krystle Piamonte, Rebecca Pingree, Stephanie Prentice, Ezra Reaves, Virginia Reed, Cathleen Riddley, Katja Rivera, Adrian Roberts, Stacy Ross, Adam Roy, Katie Rubin, Patrick Russell, Lindsey Marie Schmeltzer, Louel Senores, Robert Sicular, 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, Aaron Wilton, Elena Wright

PLAYGROUND AMBASSADORS

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

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Norman Gee, Associate Producer 
Jed Parsario, Associate Producer 
Stephanie Prentice, Associate Producer 
Katja Rivera, Associate Producer 
Jacque Bugler, Production Manager 
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer 
Lana Richards, Associate Director of Development 
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager 
Emlyn Doolittle, 2022 Producing Fellow / 2022-23 Directing Apprentice 
Savannah Greene, 2022-23 Producing Fellow 
Justin P. Lopez, 2022-23 Producing Fellow 
Bacilio Mendez II, 2022 Producing Fellow 
Tanvi Agrawal, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice
Jenna Stein-Corman, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice

PLAYGROUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Stephanie Prentice, Chair
James A. Kleinmann, President
Rondrell McCormick, VP-Communications
Emilie Talbot, VP-Development
Nitin, Treasurer
Katie May, Secretary
Regina Guggenheim, Chair Emeritus
Diana Burbano
Philippa Kelly
Lisa Mammel
Rebecca Martinez
David Steele

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