PlayGround presents
The 7th Annual

PLAYGROUND SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

January 26 – February 11, 2024 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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Friday, January 26, 2024, 7pm
Hector Zavala in SEEKING THE LAST GAY MAN
Steve Budd in SEEING STARS

Saturday, January 27, 2024, 7pm
Steve Budd in SEEING STARS
Bethany Mitchell in BOXSTEPS AND BEERS

Sunday, January 28, 2024, 7pm
Bethany Mitchell in BOXSTEPS AND BEERS
Hector Zavala in SEEKING THE LAST GAY MAN

Friday, February 2, 2024, 7pm
Sonia Sawkar in BABY COCONUT
Geoffrey Grier in SALAAM HUEY, SALAAM

Saturday, February 3, 2024, 7pm
Jill Young in LITTLE STARS YOUTH THEATRE PRESENTS: MACBETH
Sonia Sawkar in BABY COCONUT

Sunday, February 4, 2024, 7pm
Geoffrey Grier in SALAAM HUEY, SALAAM
Jill Young in LITTLE STARS YOUTH THEATRE PRESENTS: MACBETH

Friday, February 9, 2024, 7pm
nicole soul in THE EVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
Miyoko Sakatani in I’LL LOOK UP AS I WALK

Saturday, February 10, 2024, 7pm
Miyoko Sakatani in I’LL LOOK UP AS I WALK
nicole soul in THE EVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

Stage Manager: Jenna Stein-Corman
Lighting Designer: Brittany Mellerson

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group,
and a National New Play Network (NNPN) Partner Organization.

Performance Schedule

Steve Budd in Seeing Stars
1/26 & 1/27 at 7pm  Ever wish that someone you love would change overnight? Be careful what you wish for! At 31, Steve moves back in with his parents. But when his gruff, distant dad transforms before his very eyes, Steve is in for the ride of a lifetime. Seeing Stars is a heartfelt and hilarious exploration of family dysfunction, mental illness, and a man’s desire to connect with his dad. Steve Budd plays multiple characters in this drama-with-laughs. Directed by Mark Kenward.

Geoffrey Grier in Salaam Huey, Salaam
2/2 & 2/4 at 7pm  Geoffrey Grier performs in Salaam Huey, Salaam, a one-person show based on an original essay written by Marvin X and later converted to a one-act by his colleague and fellow Black Arts Movement artist Ed Bullins. The two argued about who originated the play and ultimately settled on separate versions, both of which contain the same content. Grier’s presentation is a mix of the two versions.

Bethany Mitchell in Boxsteps and Beers
1/27 & 1/28 at 7pm  Boxsteps and Beers is the fantastical, musical story of Bethany’s life. Driven by her original songs, we follow her journey as a touring dancer in New York City to being thrust into the San Francisco creative scene at the height of the pandemic. Equal parts ridiculous, beautiful, and heart-breaking, Boxsteps and Beers makes for a unique cocktail of song, dance, and storytelling. Get ready to laugh, cry, or feel really uncomfortable as she ruminates on topics such as sex organs, female contraception, growing up a musical theater nerd, and making a lemon drop martini when life gives you lemons. Did I mention that this show is also a drinking game? So grab a beer and sit back to enjoy something like you’ve never seen before.

Miyoko Sakatani in I’ll Look Up As I Walk
2/9 & 2/10 at 7pm Miyoko created this show to pay homage to her Japanese immigrant mother’s life of hardship, poverty, many losses and the WWII internment camp. This is also a story of a mother and daughter relationship. Miyoko shares what it was like growing up Japanese in America and the challenges of having a Buddhist immigrant mother who could not speak English. Her story follows her difficult relationship and a long estrangement that eventually led to a reconciliation where she and her mother traveled to Japan together. It was her mother’s first time back in 55 years and Miyoko’s first time meeting her grandmother.

Sonia Sawkar in Baby Coconut
2/2 & 2/3 at 7pm Baby Coconut is an interactive, stand-up comedy performance based on the life of the performer, Sonia Sawkar who is currently 6 months pregnant with her third child! Sonia is the younger of two children of tone-deaf and very strict, Indian immigrant parents. Her performance will start from being born and raised in a predominantly white, Christian/Mormon town, where she developed her identity crisis and self-proclaimed “coconut” status. And how her childhood shaped her own parenting style, for better or worse.

nicole soul in The Evolution Will Not Be Televised
2/9 & 2/10 at 7pm “The Evolution Will Not Be Televised” unfolds as an origin tale narrated by an unlikely guide—an inquisitive right-wing conservative pageant host. This hour-long dramedy weaves together character monologues, multimedia, music, and movement to unravel the bittersweet journey of evolution. Directed by Fariso Scales.

Jill Young in Little Stars Youth Theatre presents: MACBETH (a solo show)
2/3 & 2/4 at 7pm Little Stars Youth Theatre presents: MACBETH (a solo show)  is a metatheatrical marriage of slapstick comedy and queer existential angst– as an audience member, you walk into what is supposedly a children’s production of The Scottish Play. But when an emergency broadcast announces the incoming end of the world, the young cast evacuates, leaving only their director, Jill, behind. The show must go on…right? This comedic solo piece explores the paradox of live performance in a seemingly-doomed world. As Jill attempts to save the show, it devolves into an anxiety spiral on death and identity, featuring clowning, character performance, and Shakespeare.

Hector Zavala in Seeking The last Gay Man
1/26 & 1/28 at 7pm  Seeking The last Gay Man is a comedy narrated in a single voice speech with melodramatic, cabaret and clown overtones. Inspired by the experiences of the interpreter and his adventures as an openly homosexual man in cultures such as Mexico and the United States. The work focuses on the word and presence of the actor, using only transfigured scenographic elements that suggest different spaces, times and places. It takes pop art as references in its aesthetics, as well as resources of the LGBT culture, in order to promote and spread understanding, diversity and rights for gender equality and equity. The work has original music inspired by Mexican folklore in conjunction with electronic music, as well as artificial lighting and objects that enhance the scenic game.

BIOGRAPHIES

ARTISTS

STEVE BUDD, he/him, is an actor, writer, storyteller, and award-winning solo performer living in Oakland. He has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University, and has trained at The Marsh and with The Groundlings in L.A. Budd has performed with the San Francisco Playhouse, Custom Made Theatre Company, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Central Works, Impact Theatre, Marin Shakespeare Company, Wheelock Family Theater, The Theater at Monmouth, and The English Theatre Company of Israel. His previous solo shows include What They Said About Love and What They Said About Sex.

GEOFFREY GRIER, he/them, using the depth of his experiences, 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.

Bethany Mitchell, she/her, is a dancer, singer, producer, and Fulbright Scholar from Mission Viejo, California. She has toured to over forty countries as a contemporary dancer with Liss Fain Dance in San Francisco and Battery Dance in NYC. As a musician, she plays guitar, piano, and drums and performs at venues such as The Lost Church and Hotel Utah in San Francisco and Rockwood Music Hall in NYC. Her one-woman show, Boxsteps and Beers, debuted at The Marsh in San Francisco in November, 2021. Her art salon, ArtPärdē, began in April, 2022, and Bethany is proud to have produced five shows at local venues.

MIYOKO SAKATANI, she/her, is a SAG-AFTRA-e actor, singer, writer, producer and a proud company member of PlayGround. Miyoko has performed on many Bay Area regional and community theatre stages over many years, including writing and performing her solo piece. Film credits include the award winning Samuel Goldwyn film “East Side Sushi” (IMDb.com/Miyoko Sakatani). As founding director of Playland Productions, Miyoko has produced and co-directed several short films and stage plays. She is also a member of an all Asian ukulele band who performs regularly and gratuitously for residential care facilities. Deepest love and gratitude to Richard, Shanti and dearest friends.

SONIA SAWKAR, she/her, is an actor, stand-up comedian, writer, and filmmaker. Her most noteworthy theatrical performance was playing the sociopathic serial killer in Awesome Theatre’s dark comedy play Let’s Kill Jessica,  which received rave reviews. She also wrote, directed and starred in the dark comedy pilot CRAY which has won dozens of awards and accolades. She is a mother of two (with a third on the way!) and a strong advocate for maternal mental health. Her realistic, dry humor and authentic storytelling keeps her audience engaged from start to finish. Sonia would like to thank her supportive partner Ankit Garg, her acting teachers from ZA Studio: Robert Zimmerman & Peter Allas, and her loving acting community – thank you for always laughing at her jokes! IG @soniasawkar Website: soniasawkar.com

nicole soul, she/her, is a Nevisian-American comedian, writer, and award winning TV host who served as lead host on season 1 & 2 of Zappos LIVE. She debuted her one woman show, The Evolution Will Not Be Televised at Philadelphia Fringe Festival to a sold out audience, and was a selected performer at Lysistrata Comedy Festival, Black Girl Giggles Comedy Festival, and Laugh Riot Grrrlll Festival. In 2021, she took on the role as Chief Experience Officer of Antidepressants Media where she hosts and produces live experiences such as variety, comedy shows, and game shows that champion Black joy. Nicole got her start in entertainment winning the Miss Black New Jersey Scholarship Pageant, which inspired her acting career, as well as ongoing involvement in social activism. She graduated with honors from Rutgers University where she kicked off a career in broadcasting at 90.3 The Core radio station. Before using comedy as a vehicle for expression, nicole was the Founder of In Carrie’s Closet Vintage Boutique, and turned her love for thrifting into a nationwide vlogging tour. On Juneteenth 2021, she received dual citizenship in Nevis, West Indies, the birthplace of her father, nicole’s early retirement home.

JILL YOUNG, they/she, is an LA-based actor, writer, and comedian. They have a BFA in Acting and a certificate in Creative Writing from UT Austin, and have refined their comedic voice by studying sketch, improv, and clowning at The Second City and The Idiot Workshop. Jill is an active member of fluxus-inspired performance troupe The Nonsemble. Jill co-wrote and starred in the feature film “Dear Leo” (2020) which premiered at the Inside Out: Toronto LGBTQ+ Film Festival. They premiered “Little Stars…” in a sold-out run at the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival, and are looking forward to bringing it to Edinburgh in 2024. Follow @jillisyoung for updates and more shows!

HECTOR ZAVALA, 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 is a member of Latinx Mafia and PlayGround.

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.

JENNA STEIN-CORMAN (Stage Manager), she/her, grew up immersed in the bay area theatre community. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she has gone on to work as a teaching artist, stage manager, and director in theaters all over the bay. Currently, she works with Town Hall Theatre, The Berkeley Playhouse, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. She recently stage managed PlayGround’s 2nd annual “twisted” holiday show, A Very Hitchcock Christmas, streaming thru New Year’s.

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.”

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 November 1, 2022 & November 20, 2023.

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 • Grants For The Arts • KFF • Koret Foundation • LA County Arts Commission • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • Rock Paper Scissors Landscape Inc. • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Daniel E. Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

John H. Gilman, Carlie Wilmans, Anonymous (2)

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, David Goldman, Regina S. Guggenheim, E. Craig Moody, Nitin, David Steele, Anonymous (2)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Ruth & Robert Brayton, Steve & Gretchen Debenham, Keith Goldstein and Donna Warrington, Jennifer & Sean Jeffries, Paul & Pam Kleinmann, Gregg & Jennifer Le Blanc, Dr. Gary W. London, Pam MacKinnon, Danny & Dolores Martinez, Molly Noble and Bob Guilbault, Pam & John Walker, Janine Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (4)

PATRON ($250-$499)

Mary E. Baird, Wendy Bear, Jerome Solberg, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Jon Tracy, Anonymous

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Lynda H Barber, Gerhard and Kathleen Bette, Jack Codd, Fair & Levit Family, Eric Garcia, Anirvan Ghosh, Cindy Goldfield, Gina Harris, Gregg Le Blanc, Jonathan Luskin, Lisa A. Mammel, Tobi Marcus, Paris McCarthy, Michelle Nedboy, Doug Peckler & Evelyn Jean Pine , Jesus Reyes, Mary Ann and Malcolm Rodgers, Emily Brauer Rogers, John J. Ruskin, Kathryn Ryan, Diane Sampson, Christine Sheppard, Susan Terris, Bex White, Christian Edward Wilburn, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Anonymous (2)

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 COMPANY

PLAYGROUND WRITERS POOL 2023-24

Daniel Baxter, Robyn Brooks, Nicole Apostol Bruno, Madeleine Butler, Jediah Craig, Cherielyn Ferguson, Elizabeth Flanagan, Ipsheeta Furtado, KT Frances Hartline, Sam Hurwitt, Tejahra Jacobs, Ruth Kirschner, Steve Koppman, Sarena Kuhn, Greg Lam, Jennifer Le Blanc, Kristy Lin Billuni, Justin P. Lopez, Mikee Loria, Daniel Martinez, Jr, Alanna McFall, Matthew Morishige, Richard Perez, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Xinyuan Pu, Kimberly Ridgeway, George Rose, David Schweidel, Louel Señores, Stan Stone, Lisa Thompson, Mike Tuton, Kaz Valtchev, Michael Waterson, Christian Wilburn, Maury Zeff

PLAYGROUND RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHTS 2023-24

Cass Brayton, Bailey Jordan Garcia, M.J. Kang, Samuel Kelly Fair Levit, Daniel Martinez, Jr., Matthew Y. Morishige, Molly Olis Krost, Evelyn Jean Pine, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Alexis Standridge, Leela Velautham, Jennie Webb

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, Ben Chau-Chiu, Tessa Corrie, David Cramer, Will Dao, Anne Darragh, Roshni Datta, Khalia Davis, 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, Monica Ho, 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 Señores, 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, Christian Wilburn, Elena Wright, Hector Zavala

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Jacque Bugler, Production Manager/General Manager 
Lana Richards, Associate Director of Development 
Jonathan Josephson, Director of Marketing & Communications 
Bacilio Mendez II, Executive Producer 
Norman Gee, Associate Producer 
Katja Rivera, Associate Producer 
Tessa Corrie, Casting Associate 
Patricia Cotter, Casting Associate 
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer 
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager 
Darius Adamson Jr., 2023-24 Producing Fellow 
River Bermudez Sanders, 2023-24 Producing Fellow 
Zoe Chien, 2023-24 Producing Fellow 
Carmia Imani, 2023-24 Producing Fellow 
Julie Lippert-Pasco, 2023-24 Producing Fellow 
Xinyuan Pu, 2023-24 Producing Fellow 
Christy Spence, 2023-24 Producing Fellow 
Emily Zhou, 2023-24 Producing Fellow 

PLAYGROUND AMBASSADORS 2022-23

Julia Brothers,  Jordan Carlson,  Ben Chau-Chiu ,  Julia Crowley,  Sheri  Flanders ,  Claire Ganem,  Eric Geller,  Monica Ho,  Tony  Kim,  Christine Liao,  AJ Lily,  Ely Sonny Orquiza,  Andrew Perez,  Ivan Rivas,  Miyoko  Sakatani,  Braedyn Youngberg

PLAYGROUND EQUITY WORKGROUP

Diana Burbano, Victoria Evans Erville, Norman Gee, Jim Kleinmann, Brittany Mellerson, Tiana Randall-Quant, Katja Rivera, M. Graham Smith

PLAYGROUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Stephanie Prentice, Chair 
James A. Kleinmann, President 
Emilie Talbot, Vice President
Nitin, Treasurer
Diana Burbano, Secretary
Regina Guggenheim, Chair Emeritus
Tanvi Agrawal
Linda Amayo-Hassan
Hillary DeMartino
Rebecca Martinez
Katie May
Bacilio Mendez II
David Steele
Christian Wilburn

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