PlayGround Gala Playbill (Sep-2022)
Welcome to the 2022 One PlayGround Gala! This year’s gala celebrates the national scope of PlayGround’s programming in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and, beginning this Fall, Chicago. With the addition of PlayGround-Chicago, Monday Night PlayGround—the signature short play program which has run successfully in the Bay Area for almost 30 years—will be produced in four unique locations by writers and performers in four major theatre hubs.
To celebrate PlayGround’s national presence, and while utilizing PlayGround’s well-honed hybrid model of both in-person and live-streamed performances, the One PlayGround Gala brings together the four companies with gatherings at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage, as well as small and large gatherings throughout the country.
Tonight not only provides us an opportunity to celebrate the impact of two remarkable women from within the PlayGround family, but also features performances by artists from our growing family from San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. An off-topic Christmas ad will help everyone save on their favorite gifts, too. This cohesion serves as PlayGround’s proof of concept as we continue to create even more opportunities for working artists across the country and establish a national network for this country’s most promising new voices and their artistic collaborators.
Thank you for joining us and being a part of this moment and movement!
Jim Kleinmann
Co-Founder & Artistic Director
PlayGround
Gala Sponsors
Emilie & Gordon Brooks
Keith Goldstein
Peggy Haas
Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman
Lisa Mammel
Rebecca Martinez
Anne Maxwell
Arthur Rock & Toni Rembe Rock
Abraham Sofaer
David Steele
Gala Honorary Chair
Peggy Haas
Masters of Ceremonies
Ben Cain
Sarah Guilbault
Jed Parsario
San Francisco Gala Caterer
Martha Avenue Home Cooked Meals
PROGRAM
5:30pm PDT / Cocktail Reception
Greetings from Board Chair Stephanie Prentice
5:50pm / First Performance
Best of PlayGround-LA
THE INTERVENTION
by Ayesha Siddiqui
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Sun …………………………………. Ben Cain
Venus ……………………………. Lea Madda
Mars ……………………………… Gary Poux
Earth …………………… Summer Broyhill
6:00pm / Dinner
6:40pm / Honoree
The Impact of Regina Guggenheim, Past Board Chair (2011-2022)
Presentation by Emilie Talbot & Jim Kleinmann
6:45pm / Second Performance
Best of PlayGround-NY
THIS IS BEAUTY
by Bailey Jordan Garcia
Directed by Abigail May Rosen
She ………………………… Sarah Guilbault
He …………. Joshwald Martínez-Peralta
6:55pm / Live Auction
5-Night / 6-Day Stay in Manhattan + KPOP Musical Tickets
Jed Parsario, Auctioneer
7:00pm / Dessert
7:20pm / Honoree
The Legacy of Annie Stuart, Former PlayGround Associate Artistic Director
Presentation by Lisa Morse, Jed Parsario, & Stephanie Prentice
7:25pm / Third Performance
Best of PlayGround
THEY DUN IT
by Alanna McFall
Directed by Tessa Corrie
Baxter/Lord Rabbitsby ………………………….. Jed Parsario
Detective Mandersly/Dead Body …….. Bacilio Mendez II
Lady Reed ……………………………………. Stephanie Prentice
Lady Dormund ………………………………. Maryssa Wanlass
7:35pm / Fund-a-Need Auction
Jed Parsario, Ben Cain & Sarah Guilbault, Auctioneers
7:45pm / Closing Toast
Led by Stephanie Prentice, Board Chair
Sarah Gasser
Zoom Stage Manager
Jack Goldstein-Askew & Addae Hill
Potrero Stage Technical Staff
Auctions
Live Auction
See the leaves change color while you enjoy a 5-night / 6-day stay this November (or dates mutually acceptable) at the Manhattan home of Julia Brothers, West 57th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. You’ll also get to take in a preview performance** of KPOP, the new Broadway Musical starring PlayGround-NY Associate Producer Jully Lee. ** Weekday evenings only, October 13-November 19, 2022.
Estimated Value: $3,000
Starting Bid: $500
Fund-a-Need Auction
We’re excited to announce that this year’s Fund-a-Need auction will directly support the more than 700 artists who will participate in the 2022-23 Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series — in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, NYC and Chicago — helping to uplift new voices for the American Theatre, particularly those historically excluded.
Our goal: to raise $25,000 on September 19 in support of artist compensation for one year of Monday Night PlayGround in four theatre hubs and, ideally, to raise $125,000 to sustain these efforts for the next five years. To achieve this goal, we are reaching out to the PlayGround community for tax-deductible donations at varying levels: $50, $125, $250, $500, $1250, $2500, and $5000 for each year. Gala attendees can raise their paddles and bid at multiple levels and naming opportunities are available for pledges starting at $5,000 per year.
Estimated Value: Priceless
Starting Bid: $2,500
Tonight’s Honorees
Regina Guggenheim is a native Texan who received her undergraduate degree from Carleton College and her MFA from the Yale School of Drama, where she first met classmate, Jim Kleinmann. Prior to settling in the Bay Area, she worked as an assistant general manager on Broadway, as well as stage and production manager from Madison Square Garden to a variety of tours/productions throughout the United States and Canada. Regina spent two decades at Broadway San Francisco, serving as Vice President of Production and Theatre Operations. She was a proud part of a leadership team that grew BSF from an $80MM theater company to a $200MM premier entertainment provider, prior to its purchase by ATG in 2021. She also served as line producer for their in-house events, bringing artists from Neil Degrasse Tyson to Sting BSF stages. Regina had the honor and delight to serve on the PlayGround board as both a member and its first chair. It has been a privilege to watch PlayGround’s growth, from bringing on Jim as a full-time staff to our home at Potrero Stage to the incredible new programs that have made PlayGround a local hub and national presence. Regina is currently working for KFF, an endowed, nonprofit organization filling the need for trusted, independent information on national health issues.
Annie Stuart served as casting director for PlayGround for the past 24 seasons and in 2005 was named Associate Director, eventually becoming Associate Artistic Director. With PlayGround, Annie contributed to every aspect of the artistic development of the company including the PlayGround films, the script evaluations and publications, the expansion into LA and New York, and her favorite in-house program, Recess. She often followed the development of playwrights and cast their plays in other venues and premiere productions. As a freelance casting director, her other credits include Marin Theatre Company, SF Playhouse. Center REP, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco and Los Angeles Shakespeare Festivals, Brava!, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Z Space, among others. For more than two decades, Annie has cast over 300 roles per season on behalf of PlayGround, making her one of the most active casting directors in the Bay Area.
Gala Artists
Summer Broyhill (Earth, The Intervention), she/her, is an actor, dancer, choreographer, director, musician, singer, improviser, and writer. She has performed on Broadway (Hairspray), National tours (Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray), Off Broadway (Killer Therapy, The Day Before Spring, and The Independents, a New York Times Critics’ Pick), and in numerous regional productions, short films, and web series. Her solo play “DREAM Lover” debuted at the Playground San Francisco Solo Play Festival in February. MFA: Old Globe/ University of San Diego Graduate Acting Program. She is a proud member of the Playground-LA 2022-2023 Writers Pool. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.
Ben Cain (Master of Ceremonies; Sun, The Intervention), he/him, is currently on the Amazon show “Panic”, the Hulu show “Cruel Summer” and the Peacock show “Bel-Air”. Always happy to be on the PlayGround!
Tessa Corrie (Director, They Dun It), she/her, is a Queer and Latinx Theater Director based in the Bay Area. Her work is grounded in creating space for marginalized communities and narratives. She is a company member and casting associate at PlayGround SF. Her credits include work at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Pear Theatre, Poltergeist Theatre Projects, Dragon Productions Theatre, Fuse Theatre, PianoFight, AmiosWest, Hillbarn Theatre, Center REPertory Company, TheatreFirst and Shotgun Players.
Bailey Jordan Garcia (Playwright, This Is Beauty), they/them, is a queer, non-binary writer based in LA and a recent graduate of The New School (BFA in Playwriting). They’ve worked with places such as The Blank Theatre (“What To Expect When You’re Expecting Our Lord and Savior”, “Pedo Punchers”), The Bechdel Group (“Tvilah; or Arriving Where She Left”) and Playground-NY, along with many others. They’re also in Playground’s residency program, commissioned to write a full length entitled “Is This Beauty”, adapted from their award-winning 10-minute entitled, “This Is Beauty”. Currently, they’re the Writer’s Room PA on a new show they can’t talk about yet! baileyjordangarcia.com
Sarah Guilbault (Master of Ceremonies; She, This Is Beauty) she/they, is a proud PlayGround-NY company member and a performer/writer living in Harlem. They take inspiration from friendship, epistolary correspondence, and a healthy dose of buffoonery.
Lea Madda (Venus, The Intervention), she/her, is a multidisciplinary theater artist, educator, and voiceover actor. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Classical Voice Performance from Boston University and an MFA in Acting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television – where she trainined in the Suzuki/Viewpoints methods under the tutelage of J Ed Araiza and Ellen Lauren of the SITI Company. Recent theater credits include The Sound of Music (Alaska CAP), Anne, A New Play (Museum of Tolerance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatricum Botanicum), Queen of Califas (Los Angeles Theatre Center) and She Loves Me (Actors Coop). Madda is also an active voiceover artist, providing the English dubbing for international shows on NETFLIX, Amazon Prime, and HBO. In 2016, Madda performed in an experimental film production entitled Distant Vision directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Madda worked closely with Coppola to retell the story of his childhood, performance and streamed live amongst 30 moving cameras. Lea is currently dubbing the role of Lucia in Season 2 of “Love Never Lies” – coming to NETFLIX soon!
Joshwald Martínez-Peralta (He, This Is Beauty), he/him, writes poems and aspires to win a Coquito Tasting contest in his lifetime. He lives in Astoria, grew up in Washington Heights, and is learning how to drive. Joshwald occasionally voice-acts for the award-winning web series, Wormholes (wormholes.tv on YouTube). He has spent over half a decade in theatre working backstage or in administration (People’s Theatre Project, New York Theatre Workshop, Teatro SEA, The Public, Eat At The Table Theatre, Anything but Realism Theatre, to name a few). Joshwald would love to explore film work soon. You can find his website on his Instagram – @joshwaldmp
Alanna McFall+ (Playwright, They Dun It), she/her, is a novelist and playwright. Her novel, The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus, was published by Atthis Arts. She was a company Resident Playwright for two seasons and has been featured in Best of PlayGround 22 and 23. Alanna was the 2019 recipient of the June Anne Baker Prize.
Bacilio Mendez II* (Detective Mandersly/Dead Body, They Dun It), he/him, always chooses the wrong lane!
Jed Parsario* (Master of Ceremonies; Baxter/Lord Rabbitsby, They Dun It), he/him, has been involved in numerous PlayGround projects including Potrero Nuevo Project, Kano & Abe: A Daly City Bible Story, and Best of PlayGround 23. Jed is a company member of PlayGround and Red Ladder Theatre Company. http://www.jedparsario.com/
Gary Poux (Mars, The Intervention), he/him, is thrilled to join his PlayGround-LA fam onstage once again.
Stephanie Prentice* (PlayGround Board Chair; Lady Reed, They Dun It), she/her, is a Bay Area native, and is frequently seen in Monday Night PlayGround, appeared in Best of PlayGround 19 and 20, and has performed in three full-length Festival of New Works plays. Stephanie has been a PlayGround company member since 2015, serves on the Board of Directors, and is an Associate Producer. She is also the Patron Services Director and Casting Associate for TheatreFIRST in Berkeley. Most importantly, she is the proud mother of two wonderful kids.
Ivan Rivas (Director, The Intervention), is resident director at Downtown Repertory Theater / Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival and company member at Rogue Machine Theatre. A proud company member of PlayGround-LA, he has been directing for the company since its inaugural season.
Abigail May Rosen (Director, This Is Beauty), she/her, is a director and producer from Washington, DC. She recently achieved her first Off-Broadway credit with BABY (Out of the Box Theatrics), and works for People’s Theatre Project in upper Manhattan. In addition to her theatrical pursuits, Abigail is also a self-published voice actor, a legitimately published writer, a singer, a guitar player, and a pretty bangin math tutor. She regrets that she cannot play tennis.
Ayesha Siddiqui (Playwright, The Intervention), she/her, is a playwright of Pakistani-American descent. Works include: Water Lily (Sundance Institute Playwriting Intensive, 2019) and Baba, Jee (Father, Yes)(Hollywood Fringe Scholarship Winner, 2018). Her newest play, Jaldee/Hurry, is in development with The Vagrancy 2020-21 Writers’ Group.
Maryssa Wanlass (Lady Dormund, They Dun It), she/her/they/them, is returning to the Bay Area after two years on the East Coast where she had a baby and learned to raise chickens. Selected Bay Area acting credits include Pericles, As You Like It, Hamlet, Winter’s Tale (SF Shakes), As You Like It (CalShakes), Book Club Play, Breaking the Code (Jewel Theatre). Wanlass is also passionate about social justice theatre and has directed at-risk young adults in Shakespeare plays and taught improv to California’s maximum-security inmates. She is currently the Engagement Director for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.
About PlayGround
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 August 1, 2021 & September 19, 2022.
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 Nonprofit Performing Arts Program • Creative Capacity Fund • First Republic Bank • The Fleishhacker Foundation • Goldman Sachs • Google • 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
SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)
William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Jerome Joseph Gentes & Michael David Bourque, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Peggy Haas, David Steele, Anonymous
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500-$4999)
John H. Gilman, Linda Kremer, Regina S. Guggenheim
PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)
Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Thalia Dorwick, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, In Memory of M. David MacCallum, Jr., Nitin, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, Diane Sampson, Sharon Simpson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, David Cost & Kate Stechschulte, Anonymous (2)
PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)
Thomas Patrick Broyhill, Paulette Donsavage & Deeje Cooley, Richard Dixon, David Goldman, Barbara Goodyear & Stephen Rosenfield, Kathryn A Hecht, Jofish Kaye & Erin Marie Panttaja, Diane Leonard, Gwen Loeb & Doyle Ott, Anne Maxwell, Colette Meunier & Mark van Norman, Cindy & Chris Redburn, Nancy Spencer & Hardy Callcott, Nancy & Carty Spencer, Oren & Justin Stevens, Anonymous (2)
PATRON ($250-$499)
Dr. Elaine Baskin & Kenneth R. Krechmer, Wendy Bear, Karen Catlin, Lily L Chow, Richard Davis – Lowell, Lynda Divito, Michael Fried, Joan & Donald Green, Vicki Hamilton, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Roxy Jones, Ray and Carla Kaliski, Rebecca Martinez, Three Kurtics and a Morse, Tiffany Mualem, Bud & Donna Ogle, Chris Potter & Lisa Mammel, Christopher Reber, Daniel & Chelsea Sinto, Lisa R. Taylor, Liam Vincent, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (4)
ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)
Maura C. Berkelhamer, Dr. Katherine Ardis Blenko, Jessica Forbess, Mr. Eric Garcia, Tom Goetzl, Gina Harris, Douglas & Mary Ann Le Blanc, Gregg Le Blanc, Trynne Miller & David Prince, Dr. Alan Pearl, Ms. Madeline Daly Puccioni, Janine & Darryl Wilburn, Robin L. Wimsatt, Kelli Wong, Anonymous (4)
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.
PlayGround Board
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
PlayGround Staff
Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Norman Gee, Associate Producer
Stephanie Prentice, Associate Producer
Katja Rivera, Associate Producer
Tessa Corrie, Casting Associate
Patricia Cotter, Casting Associate
Lana Richard, Associate Director of Development
Jacque Bugler, Production Manager
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager
Emlyn Doolittle, 2022 Producing Fellow
Savannah Greene, 2022-23 Producing Fellow
Justin P. Lopez, 2022-23 Producing Fellow
Bacilio Mendez II, 2022 Producing Fellow
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 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-LA Artistic Staff
Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Paris McCarthy, Associate Artistic Director
Sylvia Blush, Associate Producer
Tiana Randall-Quant, Associate Producer
PlayGround-LA Writers Pool
Michael P. Adams+, Monique Aldred, Steve Apostolina, Esther Banegas Gatica, Jaisey Bates, Evan Baughfman+, Summer Broyhill, Emily Brauer Rogers+, Joe Luis Cedillo, Allie Costa+, Bailey Jordan Garcia, Lauren Gorski+, Mason Greer, Julio Hanson, Briggs Hatton+, Aaron Higareda+, Uma Incrocci+, Starina Johnson+, M.J. Kang+, Michael Kaplan, Ross Tedford Kendall, Arthur Keng+, Keyanna Khatiblou, Ethan LaCaro, Mildred Inez Lewis+, Rhea MacCallum+, Liza McGowan, Scott Mullen+, Peter Pasco, Lina Patel, Joni Ravenna, Jessica June Rowe+, Mark Sherstinsky+, Ayesha Siddiqui+, Nicki Spencer+, Jennie Webb+, Karl Williams
+ Past Best of PlayGround playwright.
PlayGround-LA Company Members
Jahnavi Alyssa, Julia Belanova, Josef Bette, Sylvia Cervantes Blush, Ben Cain, Hugo Carbajal, Jordan Carlson, Jordan Covington, Frieda de Lackner, Hillary DeMartino, Carolyn Deskin, Rogelio Douglas III, Danny Gomez, Christian Haines, Julio Hanson, Mark Jacobson, Alexia Jasmene, Kurt Kanazawa, Stephanie T. Keefer, Emily Kuroda, Christopher Gary Lawson, Jully Lee, Christine Liao, Lea Madda, Jackie Marriott, Gabi Mayorga, Paris McCarthy, Rondrell McCormick, Sherry Michaels, Krystal Mosley, Melissa Ortiz, Tansu Philip, Gary Poux, Tiana Randall-Quant, Maiya Reaves, Jesus Reyes, Ivan Rivas, Debba Rofheart, Tahmus Rounds, Mae Ruling, Collette Rutherford, Anthony Rutowicz, Lamar Usher, Carla Vega, William Warren, Charlotte Williams, Christina Wren, Demetrius Wren
PlayGround-NY Artistic Staff
Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Kalina Ko, Associate Producer
Jully Lee, Associate Producer
Abigail Rosen, Associate Producer
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager
PlayGround-NY Writers Pool
Sam Affoumado, Momo Akashi, Anthony Anello, Andy Boyd, Christin Cato, Todd Cerveris, Jayne Deely, Josh Drimmer, Barry Eitel, Bailey Elis, Jack Feldstein, Kari Floren, Ruth Geye, Dana Goldstein, Stanley Hathaway, Rachel Herron, David Hilder, Carlos Jerome, Rebecca Kane, Elizabeth Lee, Dani Nelson, Matthew Park, Alexander Perez, Jacob Rice, Rachael Richman, Kathryn Ryan, Natalie Sacks, Louise Schwarz, Marcus Scott, Riley Tollen, Gaven Trinidad, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Charles Velasquez-Witosky, Leela Velautham, Rhys Washington, Maggie Wilson
PlayGround-NY Company
Jen Anaya, Rebecca Aparicio, Julia Brothers, Nathaniel Claridad, Sarah Guilbault, Neal Gupta, Tyler Kent, Kalina Ko, Nico Krell, Austin Ku, Jully Lee, MeeWha Lee, Norm Munoz, Graceson Abreu Nuñez, Betsy Rosen, Abigail Rosen, Alex Shafer, Rebecca White
PlayGround-Chicago Artistic Staff
Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Devin Christor, Associate Producer
Brooke Smith, Associate Producer
Yiwen Wu, Associate Producer
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager
PlayGround-Chicago Writers Pool
Austin Adams, Leah Barsanti, Alica Benning, Gabriella Bonamici, Sarah Bowden, McKennzie Boyd, DC Cathro, Rammel Chan, Ada Cheng, Richard Lyons Conlon, Scott Cooper, Sunny da Silva , Emma Durbin, Lisa Feriend, Kym Fraher, John Frank, Jay Greve, Dana Hall, Tanuja Jagernauth, Kerri Killeen, Samuel Levit, David Lipschutz, Marjorie Muller, Karissa Murrell Myers, Ryan Oliveira, Taylor Owen, Susan Pak, Kendall Phillips, Edward Pinkowski, Emma Rund, Matt Schutz, Justin Sikes, RJ Silva, Ryan Stevens, Wai Yim, Desiree York