PlayGround Gala Playbill Sep-2024
Welcome to the 2024 four-city PlayGround 30th Anniversary Gala! Tonight, PlayGround marks its third decade of incubating new plays and playwrights by hosting simultaneous parties in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The PlayGround 30th Anniversary Gala will celebrate the company’s monumental history of launching over 350 significant new playwrights and over 1,500 new plays onto the national theatre scene.
Highlighting the many accomplishments of our expanding company and prestigious alumni, this celebration comes at a key time as PlayGround emerges post-pandemic with an expanded national presence and reach. With a core commitment to radical accessibility, we now offer our signature short play program, Monday Night PlayGround, in four major theatre hubs: the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, with all programs admission-free and simulcast online in a first-in-the-nation partnership with SAG-AFTRA. We have also forged deeper ties to the San Francisco Bay Area artistic community through a growing suite of locally presented programs at our home theatre, the state-of-the-art Potrero Stage.
A special thanks to the 30 playwright alumni of our Gala Playwright Host Committee! We’re so grateful for all you’ve done to build our past and, tonight, to help secure our future! And to all of our guests this evening, thank you for joining us and being a part of this moment and movement!
Jim Kleinmann
Co-Founder & Artistic Director
PlayGround
Gala Sponsors
Randy Adams/Junkyard Dog Productions
Emilie & Gordon Brooks
David Goldman
Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman
Aaron Loeb
Daniele Nathanson
Nitin
Nvidia
Evelyn Jean Pine & Doug Peckler
Geetha Reddy
Jessica June Rowe
John Ruskin
Tom Swift
Malachy Walsh
Christian Wilburn
Gala Chair
Stephanie Prentice
Playwright Host Committee
PlayGround’s 30th Anniversary Gala, celebrating PlayGround’s enduring legacy, is co-hosted by 30 distinguished playwright alumni: Linda Amayo-Hassan, Esther Banegas Gatica, Cass Brayton, Diana Burbano, Patricia Cotter, Bailey Jordan Garcia, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Prince Gomolvilas, Ruben Grijalva, Garret Jon Groenveld, Julianne Jigour, Nina Ki, Molly Olis Krost, Mildred Inez Lewis, Aaron Loeb, Daniel Martinez, Jr., Daniele Nathanson, Evelyn Jean Pine, Ken Prestininzi, Geetha Reddy, Jacob Marx Rice, Carolina Rojas, Jessica June Rowe, Jonathan Spector, Nicki Spencer, Tom Swift, Malachy Walsh, Jennie Webb, Christian Wilburn, and Maury Zeff.
PLAYGROUND 30TH ANNIVERARY GALA
Celebrating PlayGround Nationally
September 16, 2024
5pm-8pm PDT Verdi Club, San Francisco
5pm-8pm PDT Rossoblu, Los Angeles
7pm-10pm CDT Osteria Via Stato, Chicago
8pm-11pm EDT Carmine’s Upper West Side, New York City
Cocktail Reception
Welcome
Greetings from Board Chair Stephanie Prentice
Dinner
Performance:
Love Language of Origin
by Michael P. Adams
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Rashid…..….Louel Señores
Madison…………..Isabel To
Dr. Krantz…Ron Campbell
This live stream is produced under a SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement.
Testimonial
Jonathan Spector
Fund-a-Need Auction
Stephanie Prentice and Norman Gee
Dessert & Surprise
Closing Toast
Led by Stephanie Prentice, Board Chair
Sarah Gasser
Zoom Stage Manager
Fund-a-Need Auction
We’re excited to announce that this year’s Fund-a-Need live auction will directly support 150+ playwrights participating in PlayGround’s incubator programs, including Monday Night PlayGround, the Festival of New Works, Playwright Residency Program, and PlayGround Commissions, helping to uplift new voices for the American Theatre, particularly those historically excluded.
Our goal: to raise $30,000 on September 16 in support of playwrights and playwright compensation. To achieve this goal, we are reaching out to the PlayGround community for tax-deductible donations at varying levels: $100, $250, $500, $1000, and $3000. Gala attendees can bid at multiple levels and naming opportunities are available for pledges starting at $5,000 per year. Bids can also be made via Venmo (@playgroundsf; phone 8541), Zelle (info@playground-sf.org), PayPal (info@playground-sf.org) or by texting your bid to 833-992-6677 (be sure to provide your full name).
Estimated Value: Priceless
Starting Bid: $1,000
Silent Auction
The Gala Silent Auction will take place in-person at the Verdi Club (San Francisco) with the option of proxy bids for guests in LA, Chicago and NYC or non-attendees (see below).
001 Sangiacomo Family Wines (Value: $430; Starting Bid: $170)
Tour & Tasting for 4 people + 4 bottles: 1 bottle 2021 Sangiacomo Sonoma Coast Chardonnay, 1 bottle 2021 Sangiacomo Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir, 1 bottle 2020 Eden Dale Sonoma Coast Chardonnay, and 1 bottle 2020 Eden Dale Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir
002 750ml Nickel & Nickel John C. Sullenger Vineyard (Value: $125: Starting Bid: $50)
2019 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
003 1.5L Caraccioli Cellars Brut Rose 2015 (Value: $180; Starting Bid: $70)
004 Two (2) Sonoma Coast Wines from our neighbors, Ruby Wine in Potrero Hill (Value: $135; Starting Bid: $50)
Unturned Stone Firebird Sauvignon Blanc (750ml), Vecino Vineyard, Potter Valley CA, 2022, and Spider Chase Cabernet Sauvignon (1.5L), Waterhorse Ridge Vineyard, Fort Ross CA, 2018
005 1.5 L Caymus Vineyards Special Selection 2017 Cabernet (Value: $500; Starting Bid: $200)
006 2023 Rose of Pinot Noir, 2020 Chardonay, 2015 Pinot Noir (Value: $132; Starting Bid: $50)
007 Martell VSOP Medaillon Special Reserve Liqueur Cognac (Value: $250; Starting Bid: $100)
008 On the Rocks Cocktails 4-Pack (Value: $56; Starting Bid: $20)
1 Knob Creek Old Fashioned 375ml, 1 Cruzan Rum Daquiri 375ml, 1 Hornitos Margarita 375ml, and 1 Larios Aviation Cocktail 375ml
009 Feve 21pc Signature Chocolates Collection (Value: $52; Starting Bid: $20)
010 Casa de Chocolates 24 Piece “Best Seller” Assorted Chocolates Box (Value: $68; Starting Bid: $30)
011 Edelweis Gourmet Chocolates (Beverly Hills) 80z sampler (Value: $40; Starting Bid: $20)
012 PlayGround Broadway Package: EUREKA DAY by Jonathan Spector (Value: $1700; Starting Bid: $680)
Start spreadin’ the news…take a whirlwind trip to the Big Apple! This is your chance to see PlayGround Alum Jonathan Spector’s BROADWAY debut, with tickets to Eureka Day at Manhattan Theatre Club (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre). Stop for dinner at Carmine’s Times Square before the show and, while we know the city never sleeps, you can rest your head in a gorgeous one-bedroom apartment donated by PlayGround Company & Board Member Julia Brothers in the heart of Manhattan. Package includes: 2 tickets to Eureka Day (November 25-January), exclusive 2 nights/3 days stay in a 1-bedroom apartment on 47th street, and $100 gift card to Carmine’s Times Square restaurant.
To submit a proxy bid, contact PlayGround Associate Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org. Provide starting bid and max. bid, as well as a mobile phone number where you can be reached on September 16.
Gala Artists
MICHAEL P. ADAMS (Playwright, Love Language of Origin), he/him, is an award-winning writer from the greater Los Angeles area. His plays have been produced in New York (Atlantic Theater Company), Los Angeles, Albuquerque (Fusion Theatre Company), Memphis, Spokane, and Tucson, among others. Michael has been a member of the Playground-LA writers’ pool since 2019. He is a graduate of the MFA program at San Jose State University.
RON CAMPBELL (Love Language of Origin, “Dr. Krantz”), he/him, actor, poet and comic book artist Ron Campbell lives in Emeryville, California. Besides having toured the world with Cirque du Soleil, performed in over 150 theatre productions in the US and abroad, Ron teaches Japanese Swordsmanship at College of Marin.
LOUEL SEÑORES (Love Language of Origin, “Rashid”), he/him is a Berkeley-based actor and stage manager. You may have last seen him in Tea Party (One of Our Own), Dream Hou$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 SF 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
ISABEL ANNE TO (Love Language of Origin, “Madison”), she/her, is an actor, singer, and proud PlayGround company member based in the SF Bay Area. She last performed in the PlayGround festival staged reading for The Passing Storm, and has appeared in PlayGround SF festival productions (Starlight and Funny, Like an Abortion). Isabel also collaborates frequently with sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster, and was 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). Offstage, Isabel enjoys cross-stitching, jigsaw puzzles, and baking. www.isabelanneto.com
About PlayGround
Founded in 1994 by Jim Kleinmann, Brighde Mullins and Denise Shama, PlayGround 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.
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 September 1, 2023 & September 16, 2024.
GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS
Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • Art Space Development Corporation • Avenue Greenlight • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • California Humanities • California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program • Creative Capacity Fund • Disney • Grants For The Arts • KFF • Koret Foundation • LA County Arts Commission • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Rock Paper Scissors Landscape Inc. • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)
Daniel E. Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Paul Haahr, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)
Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, John H. Gilman, Carlie Wilmans, Anonymous (2)
PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)
Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Just Play Productions, Linda Kremer, Ronald Whittier Family Foundation, Eric Craig Moody, Daniele Nathanson , Nitin Nitin, Molly Noble and Bob Guilbault, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, David Steele, Tom Swift, Malachy Walsh, Janine Wilburn, Anonymous
PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)
Steve & Gretchen Debenham, Hillary DeMartino, Regina Guggenheim, Kate Hecht, Paul & Pam Kleinmann, Gregg Le Blanc, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Dr. Gary W. London, Pam MacKinnon, John J. Ruskin, Diane Sampson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Anonymous
PATRON ($250-$499)
Joy Carlin, James & Cassandra Carpenter, Kelly & Carlos Delgado, Brandy T Jones, Philippa M Kelly & Paul Dresher, Jonathan Luskin, Dolores Martinez, Rebecca Martinez, Chris and Cindy Redburn, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Jon Tracy, Christian Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (3)
ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)
Dr. & Mrs. Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Mary E. Baird, Ms. Portia F. Bock, Cass Brayton, Sheila Collins, Joyce Dieda, Clint Fleener, Michael Fried, Mrs. Judith Lynn Garcia, Anonymous, Gina Harris, Ms. Sharlene Hartman, Mr. Stanley William Hathaway, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Kimberly Ridgeway, Mary Ann and Malcolm Rodgers, Ms. Jessica Rofé, Margo Rofé, Carolina Rojas Moretti, Kathryn Ryan, Louel Senores, Christine Sheppard, Stan Stone, Anonymous (2)
To contribute to PlayGround, visit https://playground-ch.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
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
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
Tessa Corrie, Co-Casting Director
Patricia Cotter, Co-Casting Director
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer
Katie Brown, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Leon Jones, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Zoe Lesser, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Joey Reyes, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Amal Mazen Salem, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Sarah Showich, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
PlayGround Ambassadors
Julia Brothers, Jordan Carlson, Ben Chau-Chiu , Julia Crowley, Sheri Flanders, Claire Ganem, Eric Geller, Monica Ho, Tony Kim, Christine Liao, AJ Lily, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Andrew Perez, Ivan Rivas, Miyoko Sakatani, Braedyn Youngberg.
PlayGround Equity Workgroup
Diana Burbano, Victoria Evans Erville, Norman Gee, Jim Kleinmann, Brittany Mellerson, Tiana Randall-Quant, Katja Rivera, M. Graham Smith.
PlayGround-LA Writers Pool 2024-25
Michael P. Adams+, Tamadhur Al-Aqeel, Damian Arteaga,Suzan Averitt, Esther Banegas Gatica+, Blaire Battle, Evan Baughfman+, Emily Brauer Rogers+, Summer Broyhill, Timothy Bryant, Jackie Cloud, Allie Costa+, Paris Crayton III, Sandra Cruze, Isabella Dionne, Amy Ellenberger, Lauren Gorski+, Rachel Harner+, Steve Harper, Aaron Higareda+, Michael B. Kaplan+, Mikee Loria, Rhea MacCallum+, Abel Marquez, Scott Mullen+, Peter Pasco, Margo Rofé, Carolina Rojas Moretti+, Cara Sanchez, Mark Sherstinsky+, Baylee Shlichtman, Jessica Skinner, Maria D. Smith, Lisa Sutton, Adrian A Babatunde Thomas, Evelyn Wu-Coffey+
+ Past Best of PlayGround playwright.
PlayGround-LA Company Members
Tanvi Agrawal, Jahnavi Alyssa, Tamiah Bantum, Brianna Barrett, Jerome Beck, Julia Belanova, Josef Bette, Sylvia Cervantes Blush, Summer Broyhill, Ben Cain, Hugo Carbajal, Jordan Carlson, Jordan Covington, Paris Crayton III, Greg Cuellar, Tom Dang, Frieda de Lackner, Hillary DeMartino, Carolyn Deskin, Rogelio Douglas III, Angel Dumapias, Eliza Frakes, Eric Geller, Jon Joseph Gentry, Danny Gomez, Cassie Grilley, Christian Haines, Julio Hanson, Matthew Henerson, Mark Jacobson, Alejandra Jaime, Alexia Jasmene, Cybelle Kaehler, Kurt Kanazawa, Stephanie T. Keefer, Tony Kim, Dean Koya, Emily Kuroda, Christopher Gary Lawson, Christine Liao, Lea Madda, Jackie Marriott, Gabi Mayorga, Paris McCarthy, Sherry Michaels, Krystal Mosley, Rachel Berney Needleman, Melissa Ortiz, Peter Pasco, Andrew Perez, Kevin Phan, Tansu Philip, Gary Poux, Tiana Randall-Quant, Maiya Reaves, Scarlett Redmond, Jesus Reyes, Ivan Rivas, Debba Rofheart, Tahmus Rounds, Mae Ruling, Collette Rutherford, Anthony Rutowicz, Richard Ruyle, Isabel Siragusa, Janet Song, Angela Sonner, Mark Anthony Vallejo, William Warren, Charlotte Williams, Jonathan Wray.
PlayGround-LA Staff
Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Paris McCarthy, Executive Producer
Tiana Randall-Quant, Associate Producer
Scarlett Redmond, Casting Associate
Zoe Lesser, 2024-25 Producing Fellow 
Sarah Showich, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
PlayGround-NY Writers Pool 2024-25
Claire Abramovitz, Kamila Boga, Tré Calhoun, Todd Cerveris, Maisa Chiang, Chelyn Cousar, Eleanor Evans-Wickberg, Madi Fabber, Aaron Fentress, Saiya Floyd, Bailey Garcia, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Melinda Gros, Patience Haggin, Michael Hagins, Nay Harris, Bram Hartman, Miz Hashimoto, Stanley Hathaway, Ashley Hazzard, Howard Ho, Wade Hollomon, Sio Hornbuckle, LeKee Horton, Uma Incrocci, Nathaniel Johnson, Sohyun Kim, Jenny King, Janelle Lawrence, Danielle Moore, Lyra Nalan, Vicky Pham, Jacob Markx Rice, Katie Ryan, Réal Vargas Alanis, Camron Wright.
PlayGround-NY Company
Kayla Amani, Jen Anaya, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Rebecca Aparicio, Julia Brothers, Nathaniel Claridad, Sheila Collins, Gracie Connell, Julia Crowley, Sarah Guilbault, Neal Gupta, Noor Hamdi, SouJee Han, Amy Hart Nguyen, Monica Ho, Mary Hodges, Tyler Kent, Nikhaar Kishnani, Kalina Ko, Nico Krell, Austin Ku, Jully Lee, MeeWha Lee, Timothy Lee, AJ Lily, Ana Margineanu, Alex Moggridge, Ed Moreno, Norm Munoz, Wiley Naman Strasser, Graceson Nunez, Attilio Rigotti, Charlique C. Rolle, Abigail Rosen, Betsy Rosen, Paris Ruiz, Alex Shafer, Nick Sholley, Olivia Songer, Illana Stein, Kimberly Van Vo, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Rebecca White, Laith Zuaiter.
PlayGround-NY Staff
Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Abigail Rosen, Executive Producer
Nathaniel Claridad, Associate Producer
Kalina Ko, Associate Producer
Bailey Jordan Garcia, Casting Associate
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager
Katie Brown, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Leon Jones, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
PlayGround-Chicago Writers Pool 2024-25
Daniel Arzola, Kirsten Baity, Zach Barr, Henry Bender, Siah Berlatsky, Kevin Blair, Gabriella Bonamici, Jessie Bond, Anne Brady, Julie Campbell, Donaldson Cardenas, Ana F. Dalipi, Mikayla De Guzman, Rachel DuBose, Betsy Dudak, Liz Haas, Dana Hall, Toby Inoue, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Jerluane Jenkins, alfonzo kahlil, Beth Kander, Juliet Kang Huneke, Alex Kinglsey, Rachel Linton, Alan Maass, Marnie Monogue, Lani Montreal, Dakota Pariset, Mary Parisoe, Andrew Piechota, Jessica Puller, Jay Rehak, Keegon Schuett, Matt, Schutz, Katherine Swan.
PlayGround-Chicago Company
Manny Buckley, Valerie Butler-Newbern, Devin Christor, Andrea Conway-Diaz, Ana F. Dalipi, Vivian Delgadillo, Spencer Diedrick, Eileen Dixon, Sheri Flanders, Skylar Frishman, Ashley Graham, Scott Gryder, Charlotte Harris, Carmia Imani, Hannah Lynn Kato, Benjamin Kelly, Beau Malone, Ilsa Morales, Alka Nayyar, Leanna Oliveira, Dakota Pariset, Kendall Phillips, Shariba Rivers, Charlique Rolle, Diana Simonzadeh , Brooke-Erin Smith, Peter Stielstra, Tyler Struble, William C. Thompson, Kezia Waters, Karla Wren, Braedyn Youngberg, Jordan Zelvin.
PlayGround-Chicago Staff
Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Devin Christor, Executive Producer
Leanna Oliveira, Associate Producer
Brooke Smith, Associate Producer
Maria Arreola, Casting Associate
Joey Reyes, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Amal Mazen Salem, 2024-25 Producing Fellow