PlayGround’s 6th Annual Solo Fest Playbill

PlayGround presents
The 6th Annual

PLAYGROUND SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

January 27 – February 12, 2023 7pm PT

Potrero Stage & Online 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.

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I Heart Maroc
by Azo Safo
Directed by and developed with Jessica Lynn Johnson

Overlooked Latinas
by Tina D’Elia
Directed by Mary Guzmán

Round Hole
by Daniel Martinez, Jr.

Paratha
by Tansu Philip

Ric Iverson Is Alive and Well and Living In Milpitas – The Highly Concentrated Version
by Ric Iverson

Not One of Us
by Diane M. Barnes

Wendy, My Darling
by April Wish

Resurrection
by Geoffrey Grier

(No More) Adjustments
by Champagne Hughes

Boy Vey
by Rachel Kaftan

Stage Manager: Declan Manasse-Boetani

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group,
and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network (NNPN).


Performance Schedule

Friday, January 27, 2023, 7pm
Azo Safo in I HEART MAROC
Tina D’Elia in OVERLOOKED LATINAS

Saturday, January 28, 2023, 7pm
Daniel Martinez, Jr. in ROUND HOLE
Tansu Philip in PARATHA

Sunday, January 29, 2023, 7pm
Ric Iverson in RIC IVERSON IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN MILPITAS – THE HIGHLY CONCENTRATED VERSION
Azo Safo in I HEART MAROC

Friday, February 3, 2023, 7pm
Ric Iverson in RIC IVERSON IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN MILPITAS – THE HIGHLY CONCENTRATED VERSION
Diane M. Barnes in NOT ONE OF US

Saturday, February 4, 2023, 7pm
Tansu Philip in PARATHA
April Wish in WENDY, MY DARLING

Sunday, February 5, 2023, 7pm
Tina D’Elia in OVERLOOKED LATINAS
Geoffrey Grier in RESURRECTION

Friday, February 10, 2023, 7pm
Champagne Hughes in (NO MORE) ADJUSTMENTS
Geoffrey Grier in RESURRECTION

Saturday, February 11, 2023, 7pm
Rachel Kaftan in BOY VEY
Champagne Hughes in (NO MORE) ADJUSTMENTS

Sunday, February 12, 2023, 7pm
Diane M. Barnes in NOT ONE OF US
Daniel Martinez, Jr. in ROUND HOLE


BIOGRAPHIES

ARTISTS

DIANE M. BARNES (Not One of Us), M.D., she/her, is a Meisner trained actor, writer and solo performer. A graduate of Stanford and Yale School of Medicine, Barnes discovered storytelling after a devastating hemorrhagic stroke, chronicled in My Stroke of Luck, her first acclaimed solo show developed with David Ford of The Marsh. Barnes studied with Anna Deveare Smith and Keith Johnstone, at ACT Summer Training Congress, Berkeley Rep and BATS. Not One of Us, also developed with Ford, focuses on class, race, privilege and gender in medicine in Nigeria and the USA. Barnes is currently writing a multigenerational ancestor saga, What We Carry. A native New Yorker, Diane is a firm SF Bay Area transplant. Dianebarnes415.com

TINA D’ELIA (Overlooked Latinas), she/her, is a Bay Area lesbian/queer, mixed-race Mexican, award-winning solo performer, actor, and screenwriter. D’Elia is honored to be performing in Playground Solo Fest. D’Elia was the solo performer in Eye Zen Presents’ Out of Site: Haight-Ashbury. Her shows: Groucho: A Queer Loca, The Break-Up! A Queer Latina Torch Song, The Rita Hayworth of this Generation (Best of Fringe SF). D’Elia’s work has presented at The National Queer Arts Festival, The Theater Offensive (Boston), The Marsh, Stage Werx, Highways Performance Space (LA), and more. Credits include: The Pursuit of Happyness, Earth Mama, Sense8, and Dyke Central. tinadelia.com

CHAMPAGNE HUGHES ((No More) Adjustments), she/her, is the Bay Area’s Director of Development and Taboo Topics. For most, she is known for her contributions to the Arts as an administrator, actor and produce. Now, Hughes completed her Counseling Psychology Masters degree with an emphasis drama therapy and sex therapy program. She looks forward to developing her private practice, Loverse Lane Inc, under supervision, host workshops for oppressed identities, produce a sexual wellness festival, and build emotional support programs within local theaters designed to care for artists during the rehearsal process. Other Credits: The Human Ounce (Central Works Theater); Othello, Macbeth (African American Shakespeare Company); Clybourne Park (Altarena Theater); Down Here Below, Romeo and Juliet (Oakland Theatre Project). Art Administrative Credits: The Flight Deck; American Conservatory Theater; Berkeley Repertory Theater; Beach Blanket Babylon. Contact: ChampagneHughes@icloud.com

GEOFFREY GRIER (Resurrection), he/they, performs Resurrection, a story of Grier’s rise, fall, and recovery from many vices. He takes us on a very personal journey that is a narrative of resilience from his hometown of Detroit to San Francisco. Grier’s journey goes from the extremes of family love to the depths of addiction. He then invites us to experience his uplifting voyage of recovery and resurrection from the vices. Using the depth of his experiences, Grier now manages the San Francisco Recovery Theatre, whose mission is to organize the partnership between actors, scripted material, writers, directors, and newcomers (returning citizens and homeless performers). As a recovering addict, Grier believes that the artistic processes of theater and the performing arts give people a chance to lower the masks they wear on the street and successfully communicate from the heart and in the moment.

RIC IVERSON (Ric Iverson Is Alive and Well and Living In Milpitas – The Highly Concentrated Version), he/him, “was born in Santa Cruz in the 60’s” is the absolute perfect bio for Ric, but they asked for 50-100 words, so he went on…Ric will never not be forever thankful to his husband, and their two kids, for several lifetimes full of more adventure than any one man has any right to…58, 59, 60! Done!

 

RACHEL KAFTAN (Boy Vey), she/her, is an actor and playwright based in LA. Before moving to sunny California, Rachel trained extensively with Seattle Children’s Theatre (Performer) and Seattle Repertory Theatre (Summer Education Intern; Performer). In 2017, Rachel attended Loyola Marymount University as a Theatre Arts major. In 2020, Rachel became a RAINS Undergraduate Research Fellow for her research on inherited Holocaust trauma. That work, along with her theatre degree, is what led to Rachel’s solo show, BOY VEY. Beth Henley (LMU professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright) awarded Rachel the 2021 Sustained Achievement in Playwriting title for her work.

TANSU PHILIP (Paratha), she/her, is an Indian-American third culture kid from Redlands, CA. Her first TV pilot, PARATHA, was an official selection at SeriesFest 2022 and a semifinalist in The Script Lab 2021 Screenplay Contest. After watching the TV show Fleabag, which started out as a one woman show, Tansu was inspired to do the opposite and turn her pilot into a play. She is very grateful to the Playground staff for this opportunity, especially Jim Kleinmann, and would also like to thank her boyfriend David Friedman and best friend Kirsten Baird for their constant support. She would also like to thank anyone who has ever read lines with her, given notes on her pilot, or watched a performance – in person or virtually! She would not be here without her friends and family.

DANIEL MARTINEZ, JR. (Round Hole), he/him, is an actor and writer based in San Jose. Daniel previously premiered his first one man show, Me Again, at last year’s Solo Fest and is ecstatic to be back sharing his latest work. Daniel is a new member of the Playground Writers’ Pool, where he’s gotten to explore and grow his writing talents this season. Daniel is extremely grateful for the chance to tell these deeply personal stories. He’s also extremely grateful for Austin Bean as this show wouldn’t have come together without him. Whether by chance or by choice, I’m thankful for YOU- enjoy the show!

AZO SAFO (I Heart Maroc), she/her, is an performer/playwright based in Los Angeles. She wrote her first solo play, I Heart Maroc, during the pandemic lockdowns. She performed it at Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2021 and at Binge Fringe Festival at Santa Monica Playhouse, NAMBA Women’s Voices Festival, and Solo Fest at Whitefire Theatre. Azo has also written and directed a short film for the 48 Hour Film Festival. She has also written several short plays for Los Angeles based festivals.

 

APRIL WISH (Wendy, My Darling), she/her, has produced and acted in nearly a hundred independent features and short films. In 2019, she mounted solo show “My Name is Mommy” to sold-out houses in Los Angeles before heading out on a national tour. The play garnered a Producer’s Encore Award at The Hollywood Fringe Festival, and was extended to a full run at The Whitefire Theater in Los Angeles. The show was selected to be featured in the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival and New York’s UNITED Solo Festival. in August 2020, April presented her second solo show, written entirely during the pandemic. She’s currently developing a handful of solo theater pieces and is most excited to be sharing this story with her daughter, Clementine, as she begins to Grow Up.

MARY GUZMÁN (Director, Overlooked Latinas), she/her, is a long-time resident and a Bay Area prolific theater director. She has directed a variety of playwrights’ new plays: Elana Dykewomon’s final play “Death’s Door”; Veronica Mejano’s award-winning live-cinema piece “Remember Los Siete”; Tina D’Elia’s sold-out solo show “Overlooked Latinas”; and Iowa Playwrights Workshop MFA Playwright Marisela Treviño Orta’s “Ghost Limb”. Guzmán has directed San Francisco Fringe’s “Best of” Award winning shows: Enrique Urueta’s hilarious “Learn to be Latina” and Tina D’Elia’s “The Rita Hayworth of this Generation.” Guzmán was invited to Boxcar Theatre Directing Lab and was selected for Directors’ Lab West at the Pasadena Playhouse.

JESSICA LYNN JOHNSON (Director, I Heart Maroc), she/her, is a published playwright, recipient of BEST NATIONAL SOLO ARTIST AWARD, Advisory Board Member of the LA Women’s Theatre Festival, Director for Whitefire Theatre, and Founder & CEO of Soaring Solo Studios. Jessica has aided in the development of over 100 solo shows (and still going strong)! As a performer, Jessica has “edu-tained” international audiences touring her own one person shows ZE and OBLIVIOUS TO EVERYONE for over 15 years. Jessica’s projects have taken home awards such as TOP OF FRINGE, HFF ENCORE PRODUCER AWARDS, TVOLUTION BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE, LARRY CORNWALL AWARD FOR MUSICAL EXCELLENCE & several other accolades! Jessica was also nominated for the Female Director of Distinction in Theatre by Girl Trip LLC at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Jessica is so honored to collaborate on this wonderful solo show! www.SoaringSoloStudios.com

PRODUCTION & STAFF

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.

F. JASON SHEPPARD (Stage Manager, Boy Vey), he/him, M.A., is the Technical Director for the LMU Theater Arts and Dance Department and has worked on over 200 productions since he started working at LMU in the fall of 1997. Jason has also designed many sets for LMU including Noises Off, Once in a Lifetime, A Raisin In the Sun, Macbeth, The Elephant Man, Henry IV, In Love With Night, Evil Dead: The Musical, Honey Brown Eyes, Nine, and Runaways. Off campus he has designed sets for several companies in Los Angeles. Some favorites include Grace Notes & Anvils (Odyssey Theater Ensemble), Beast On the Moon (Long Beach Playhouse), The Architect (The Gascon Theater), and Modigliani (Buffalo Knights). Jason has also stage-managed several plays and workshops in the greater Los Angeles area.

BRITTANY MELLERSON (Lighting Designer), all pronouns, is an East coast native and a graduate of Point Park University’s Conservatory Program, with a BFA in Theatrical Lighting & Sound Design. Brittany is the Resident Lighting designer for Lamplighters Music Theatre, SF PlayGround, and the Telluride Film Festival. Recent credits include lighting design for LMT’s Princess Ida, PlayGround’s Solofest and sound design for Mothers of the Bride. Throughout the pandemic, Brittany has been working to source and produce equitable employment avenues in the Bay Area for Black designers and technicians. “The world is burning. Learn its truth.”

JACQUE BUGLER (Production Manager), she/they, has served as PlayGround’s Production Manager and Technical Director since 2019. A theatre generalist, they have also directed, designed and stage managed for many Bay Area theatres.

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, 2021 & January 28, 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 • Creative Capacity Fund • 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 • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shenson Foundation • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Zellerbach Family Foundation

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Mr. William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Jerome Joseph Gentes & Michael Bourque, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Craig & Kathy Moody, David Steele, Anonymous

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500–$4,999)

John H. Gilman, Regina S. Guggenheim, Linda Kremer, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Dr. Elaine Baskin & Kenneth R. Krechmer, Mr. William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Thalia Dorwick, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Tish and Steve Harwood, Mrs. Frannie Pope Hohman, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Karen Mauney-Brodek, Nitin, Diane Sampson, Sharon Simpson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, David Cost and Kate Stechschulte, Anonymous (5)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Karen Chakmakian, Paulette Donsavage & Deeje Cooley, Mr. Richard Dixon, Michael Fried, Barbara Goodyear & Stephen Rosenfield, Ruben and Keli Grijalva, Regina S. Guggenheim, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Jofish Kaye & Erin Marie Panttaja, Diane Leonard, Gwen Loeb & Doyle Ott, Ray Riegert, Michele and John Ruskin, Nancy Spencer & Hardy Callcott, Oren & Justin Stevens, Mr. Malachy Walsh, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Maury Zeff

PATRON ($250-$499)

Sharon Baldwin, Wendy Bear, Cass Brayton, Ruth & Robert Brayton, In memory of Susan Bruett, Karen Catlin, Lily L Chow, Laurie Cohen, David Cramer, Ms. Doris Davenport, Mr. Richard Davis – Lowell, Maggie Dewan-Smith, Ms. Lynda Divito, Mr. Mark Andrews, Krystyna Finlayson , Ms. Jessica Forbess, Sarah Gasser, Justin and Oren Stevens, Keith Goldstein, Eileen Grady, Joan & Donald Green, Daryl Anthony Harper, Becky Harris, Margaret and Cory Johnson – UCSF Essential Worker’s Program, Roxy Jones, Ray and Carla Kaliski, Christopher Lee Kuckenbaker, Jonathan Luskin and Leslie Katz, Michael Lutz, Brittany S Mellerson, Three Kurtics and a Morse, Bud & Donna Ogle, Chris Potter & Lisa Mammel, Madeline Daly Puccioni, Matthew Purdon, Donation – Combined, Giving Level, Jim Kleinmann, Lisa R. Taylor, Liam Vincent, Ms. Rosalinde Westil, Christian Wilburn, Janine & Darryl Wilburn, Joanne Chow Winship, Anonymous (3)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Mary E. Baird, Dr. Elaine Baskin, Julie  Birdsong, Gwen and Karen, Nancy Rivera Brooks, Katie Dlesk, Victoria & Philippe Erville, Gina Harris, Derek Kingham, Joanne Kobori, Gregg Le Blanc, Ms. Lisa A. Mammel, Cecily T. Martin, Doug Peckler & Evelyn Jean Pine, Ms. Madeline Daly Puccioni, Kathy J Reynolds, Kary Schulman, Rebecca Schweitzer, Jeunée Simon, Kurt Taylor & BJ Olsen, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Jeffrey Trescott, Kelli Wong, Anonymous (2)

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PLAYGROUND COMPANY

PLAYGROUND WRITERS COMPANY

Linda Amayo-Hassan+, Cass Brayton+, Tom Bruett+, Rachel Bublitz+, Madeleine Butler, Vanessa Cassandras, Reg Clay, Victoria Evans Erville, Jessica Fechtor, Ipsheeta Furtado, Akaina Ghosh, Linda Maria Giron, Garret Jon Groenveld+, Monique Hafen Adams, Sam Hurwitt, Tejahra Jacobs, Lisa Kang, Anne Yumi Kobori, Molly Krost+, Jennifer Le Blanc, Jonathan Luskin+, Christopher Magee, Alanna McFall, Bacilio Mendez II, Isaac Ontiveros+, Conrad Panganiban, Erin Marie Panttaja, Evelyn Jean Pine+, Madeline Puccioni, Neiry Rojo, Kevin Rolston, Annette Roman, Rebecca Schweitzer , Susan Sher, Marissa Skudlarek, Alexis Standridge, Chris Steele, Shruti Tewari, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Eteya Trinidad+, Daysha Veronica+, Madison Wetzell, Christian Wilburn+, 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, Giselle Boustani-Fontenele, Millie Brooks, Julia Brothers, Nicole Apostol Bruno, Lizzie Calogero, Ron Campbell, Joy Carlin, Nancy Carlin, Desdemona Chiang, Tessa Corrie, David Cramer, Will Dao, Anne Darragh, Dodds Delzell, Livia Gomes Demarchi, Carolyn Doyle, Nora el Samahy, Rebecca Ennals, Britney Frazier, Michael French, Claire Ganem, Sarah Gasser, Norman Gee, Douglas B. Giorgis, Amy Glazer, Cindy Goldfield, BW Gonzalez, Christian Haines, Margo Hall, Rosie Hallett, Katherine Hamilton, Daryl Anthony Harper, Eric Fraisher Hayes, Brian Herndon, Monica Ho, Laura Humphrey, J Jha, Colin Johnson, Lyndsy Kail, 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, Jasmine Murray, Noble, Joseph Patrick O’Malley, Karen Offereins, Annette Oliveira, Soren Oliver, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Melissa Ortiz, Doyle Ott, June Palladino, Carla Pantoja, Louis Parnell, Jed Parsario, Michael Phillis, Rebecca Pingree, Stephanie Prentice, Ezra Reaves, Virginia Reed, Cathleen Riddley, Katja Rivera, Adrian Roberts, Neiry Rojo, Stacy Ross, Adam Roy, Katie Rubin, Lindsey Marie Schmeltzer, Louel Senores, Robert Sicular, Jeunee Simon, M. Graham Smith, Ken Sonkin, Lauren Spencer, Teddy Spencer, 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, Jeffrey Lo, Gwen Loeb, Brady Morales-Woolery, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Stephanie Prentice, Katja Rivera

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Annie Stuart, Associate 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
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager & Assistant to the Artistic Director
Lindsey Abbott, 2021-22 Producing Fellow/Women Leaders Fellow
Daniel Benitez, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Caroline Portante, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Wallace Yan, 2021-22 Producing Fellow
Edna Mira Raia, Post Fellow
Lana Richards, Post Fellow
Chris Steele, Post Fellow

PLAYGROUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Regina Guggenheim, Chair
James A. Kleinmann, President
Jerome Joseph Gentes, VP-Communications
Emilie Talbot, VP-Development
Nitin, Treasurer
Katie May, Secretary
William Bivins
Diana Burbano
Eleanor Clement Glass
Lisa Mammel
Rebecca Martinez
Rondrell McCormick
Stephanie Prentice
Katja Rivera
David Steele

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