PlayGround-LA presents Season 9

BEST of PLAYGROUND-LA
GALA

April 12th 2021 7pm PT

via Zoom Live Stream

Guiding Light
by Starina Johnson
Directed by Paris McCarthy
Gabriel……………………………………………………………Stephanie T. Keefer
Joseph………………………………………………………………..Jordan Covington
Mary……………………………………………………………………….Christine Liao

We Jump Broom
by Mildred Inez Lewis
Directed by Frieda De Lackner
Nell……………………….………………………………………………Krystal Mosley
Winny…………………………..………………..………………………Maiya Reaves

Courage
by Scott Mullen
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Reggie…………………………………………………………………..Mark Jacobson
Kat…………………….………………………….………………………Jahnavi Alyssa

The Speck
by Nicki Spencer
Directed by Jesus Reyes
Rosie………………………………………………………….……………….Mae Ruling
Mark………………………………….……..…..…………………………….Josef Bette
Speck……………………………………………………………………Debba Rofheart

Underworld
by Nicholas C. Pappas
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Jiibayaabooz……………………………….…..………………………….Matt Kizer
Man…………………………………………………………………Anthony Rutowicz
Hades…………………………………………………………………..Tahmus Rounds

Waiting for Umoja 
by Daysha Veronica
Directed by Jully Lee
Darius Blackman…………………………………………………………Julio Hanson
Syndey Blackman……………………………………..Marie-Françoise Theodore
Sky Blackman……………………………………………………………..Victoria Dunn
Justin Blackman…………………………………………………. Rogelio Douglas III
Calvin Blackman………………………………………………………..William Warren

Stage Manager/Sound Designer – Sarah Gasser
Visual Designer – Colin Johnson

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

STARINA JOHNSON (Guiding Light), she/they, is a multidisciplinary artist who can be seen in award-winning films such as “West Hollywood Motel” and “Casserole Club.” Theatre projects include Piñata, directed by Stan Zimmerman, and complex[ion] woman, directed by Ebony Gilbert. Starina’s play, Border Towns won SLAM Boston’s Diverse Voices in Theatre competition, and her short plays have been produced across the country. For more information about her, click HERE! 

MILDRED INEZ LEWIS (We Jump Broom), she, writes and directs for theater, radio, film and the digital space. A member of the Dramatists Guild, she writes with the Company of Angels and EST-Los Angeles. She is recently published by Broadway Play Publishing and Next Stage Press. Upcoming play productions from Antaeus, Central Works, Digital Dramatists, and Dragon Egg Productions. Her sci-fi script, “Ruby, Data Point 083a3” is in preproduction.

SCOTT MULLEN (Courage), he, is a longtime Hollywood screenplay analyst and screenwriter, a two-time winner of Amazon Studios’ screenwriting contest, whose thrillers THE SUMMONING, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT and BLOOD ON HER BADGE aired on TV One. His short plays have been produced hundreds of times around the world. An evening of his comic plays, A NIGHT OF S.M., recently had a two-week run in Hollywood. This play is dedicated to Scott’s father Don, who passed away in December.

NICHOLAS C. PAPPAS (Underworld), he/him is a playwright, dramaturge, and director. Plays include: Including Shooter (publisher: Playscripts), The Ballad of 423 and 424 (Heideman Award; Actors Theatre of Louisville), Fatty (Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor), and The Dreams in Which I’m Dying (Deborah Aquila Reading Series). Published by Dramatics Magazine and Playscrips. He has directed at San Francisco Playhouse, Moorpark College, SFSU, and others. Dramaturgy: Center Theatre Group, San Francisco Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, and TheatreFolk. A graduate of San Francisco State University’s MFA program, he teaches at Moorpark College and is currently in development on several television and film projects.

NICKI SPENCER (The Speck), she/her. After receiving a Master’s Degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, Nicki has worked as a Writers’/Showrunner Assistant on several TV Shows including A&E and History Channel’s “Knightfall,” FOX’s “The Gifted” and “Proven Innocent,” and HBO Max’s Golden Globe nominated show “The Flight Attendant.” In PlayGround LA, she has had several short plays performed on Monday Nights, three plays in the Best Of Gala, and one full-length play commission.

DAYSHA VERONICA (Waiting for Umoja) is a playwright, author, digital media producer, MFA candidate at UCLA and a Television Academy Foundation Internship alum. Her plays have been workshopped/performed at UC San Diego, UCLA, Meet Cute LA, Celebration Theatre, and PlayGround-LA! Her digital work has appeared on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and The Huffington Post. She is currently under commission with PlayGround-LA. Social: @DayshaVeronica

ACTORS

 JAHNAVI ALYSSA (Courage, “Kat”), she, has sung, danced, acted, fiddled and choreographed on stages across the country. Most recently she was seen in Portland as Reza in Once (Broadway Rose Theatre Company), in Los Angeles reading the lead roles in Seven Bridges Road and Hot Tragic Dead Thing (Living Room Series), and in Salt Lake City playing Qfwfq in The Distance of the Moon (Sackerson Theatre Co.) She also recently produced the first iteration of her dream project, The Secret Player, in which she stars as a badass musician/fighter with a disdain for guns. For more information about Jahnavi, click HERE!

 JOSEF BETTE (The Speck, “Mark”), he, is originally from Chicago, IL, LA transplant since 2011. He is happy to be part of the PlayGround LA community since 2019 and his film credits include “Chasing the Blues” and “Parked” on Amazon Prime.

JORDAN COVINGTON (Guiding Light, “Joseph”), he/him, is an actor/singer/dancer who loves to perform. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and will be moving to Los Angeles fairly soon. He hopes to bring his talents here and do more with his craft. He is currently on set filming a movie, and on his off days, he’s in acting class with Casey Lee and the CL Actors Lab. Jordan enjoys his time with PlayGround and can’t wait to do more with them.

ROGELIO DOUGLASS III (Waiting for Umoja, “Justin Blackman”), he, is an actor and spoken-word poet from Brooklyn, NY. He has a BA in Theater (SUNY New Paltz) and an Acting MFA from UCLA Theater, Film & Television — Class of 2020! A few of his most recent credits include — Class of 2020 by Lisa Loomer (Company of Angels), The Displaced by Isaac Gomez (San Diego Rep Theater), Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare by the Sea), and up next Measure for Measure (SBTS). RD3 can also be seen in numerous films and TV roles on NBC, CBS, and HBO. Forever grateful to PlayGround-LA! Love, Light & Black Therapy. For more information about Rogelio, Click HERE! | @RogelioDouglas3 

VICTORIA DUNN (Waiting for Umoja, “Sky Blackman”) is pleased to join the PlayGround-LA Family again! Recently she’s had the pleasure of being in short films, the web series “Quarantine Therapy” which was featured on RevoltTV and the filmed play special “The Sylvers” with Beer and Bedtime Stories Productions.

JULIO HANSON (Waiting for Umoja, “Darius Blackman”), he, (SAG-AFTRA) is an entertainer and educator in Los Angeles, dedicating years to bridging African-American and Panamanian roots through music, theatre, dance, and languages. Julio has performed with Grammy-recognized artists Toni Braxton, Prince, Kelis, and La Ley to name a few. Julio has appeared in many feature films, stage productions, and television. Julio is a graduate of UCLA, CSUDH, and CSULA and has a Doctorate in Education from Pepperdine University researching the Power of Artistic Activism. Julio is an advisory board member of The Young Shakespeareans and the founder of The Artistic Activist Collective. 

MARK JACOBSEN (Courage, “Reggie”), he, is thrilled to tread the digital PlayGround boards again! He just shot NBC’s “This Is Us” last week (airing March 16th), and appeared on “NCIS: LA” in November. Other recent TV: “9-1-1,” “The Resident,” “Speechless,” “How to Get Away…,” “The Rookie,” “Henry Danger.” He can also be heard heckling in NBA2K21, twang-ing in Wasteland 3, and drunk-ing in Genshin Impact, along with French Scooter-ing in the animated series, Kindi Kids. Thanks to Ciera for her wonderful direction, Jessica for her relatable, digestible, powerful words, Carla for carrying the work, Jim for the chance to play and Victoria for everything.

STEPHANIE T. KEEFER (Guiding Light, “Gabriel”), she, is a classically trained actor based in Los Angeles. She works in film, television, theater and voice over.  At U.C., Irvine, she had the good fortune to study with legendary Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski. Her short film, “ONE DANCE,” was broadcast nationally on CBS and FOX, and Stephanie has gone on to write, direct and produce other short films that have been seen in various film festivals nationally.  Catch her on Amazon Prime in the sci-fi rom com “A GIRL, A GUY, A SPACE HELMET.”

MATT KIZER (Underworld, “Jiibayaabooz“) is a proud member of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. He recently appeared as Tashtego in Moby-Dick at American Repertory Theater. Other favorite performances include roles in The River Bride (Alter Theater), El Paso Blue (Eugene O’Neill Foundation), Damn Yankees (AMTSJ), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and West Side Story(Mountain Play). He’s performed in the beloved The Bracebridge Dinner pageant at the Awahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. He also plays ukulele and sings with his band.

CHRISTINE LIAO (Guiding Light, “Mary”), she/her, is best known for her role as the restaurant cashier in the comedy sketch, “The ABC Who Can’t Read Chinese.” She also played Waverly Jong in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s Joy Luck Club in the Fall of 2019. You can also find her in Fine China on HBO platforms as part of the HBO APA Visionaries 2020 winners.

 KRYSTAL MOSLEY (We Jump Broom, “Nell”) comes all the way from Chicago, currently residing in LA and is super excited about the production this evening! Some of her credits include: 10 Virgins with Chicago Dramatist, Ruined with Eclipse Theatre and Blood Wedding with Pursuit Productions. She would like to thank the PlayGround-LA cast, friends and family for their continued support!

MAIYA REAVES (We Jump Broom, “Winny”), she/her, uses her formal training and diverse background to work on projects that penetrate the heart and inspire fresh thought. Born and raised in North Carolina, she credits her southern upbringing for keeping her rooted in her purpose and alive in her body. Maiya is currently focused on Feature Films and continued Training. No stranger to the craft,she received her BFA in performance and has been working as a performer professionally for over 7 years. She brings an enthusiastic discipline to the craft that is infectious. Her most recent project, an independent feature film, Borrelia Borealis (2021) is competing in festivals currently and looks forward to resuming the production of Picnic(2022) that she was dress-rehearsing at the time of closure with The Odyssey in Los Angeles.

DEBBA ROFHEART (The Speck, “Speck”) she/her, is an LA-based actor, a proud PlayGround-LA company member, and an Open Fist Theatre Company member. You can see her as Judy, in “Evie Rose,” now streaming on Amazon. Recently, in zoom theatre, she was seen in OFTC’s “The Book of Life,” by Judy Klass, and as Jennet Jourdemayne, in 2nd Star to the Right’s production of “The Lady’s Not for Burning.” She holds a BFA in Theatre Performance, from the University of Florida. Thank you for keeping theatre alive and supporting Zoom theatre!

TAHMUS ROUNDS (Underworld, “Hades”), he, has appeared in many television shows, including “How I Met Your Mother,” “Bones,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Criminal Minds” and “911 Lonestar.” Among other theatre credits, he is a former Blue Man in Blue Man Group, performing over 1000 shows in Chicago, Boston and New York. He is excited and honored to be a member of PlayGround-LA.

  MAE RULING (The Speck, “Rosie”), she, is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. Mae has appeared in multiple short films as the girl who eventually takes control of her life and in a feature film as a literal dream girl named Gorgeous. Her most recent role was a tenacious reporter in a pilot. Currently, Mae is working on a play about Civil War spies, but she won’t tell you any details just yet. She is thrilled to have the chance to play and grow as a part of the PlayGround-LA company.

ANTHONY RUTOWICZ (Underworld, “Man”), he, is excited to add the role of ‘Alex’ to his PlayGround résumé. Catch Anthony in the virtual choose-your-own adventure holiday experience entitled “STORAGE RUN” produced in association with ROGUE Artists.

 MARIE-FRANÇOISE THEODORE (Waiting for Umoja, “Sydney Blackman”), she, is an accomplished classical stage & screen actress/writer/director based in Los Angeles. Originally from Chicago, she was recently seen in “Never Ever Land” written by Rider Strong. She has graced local stages in leading roles at Sacred Fools, Boston Court and Theatricum Botanicum. Regional/International credits include The Guthrie, Penumbra Theatre, Court Theatre, Watford Palace (UK) and Northumberland Theatre (UK). She can currently be seen in A.X.L., How To Get Away With Murder, Station 19 and The Morning Show. Marie-Françoise is super psyched to be a PlayGround again! She gives thanks for her beautiful son, Aaron.

 WILLIAM WARREN (Waiting for Umoja, “Calvin Blackman”), he, is a native of Gary, Indiana. He began his journey at the famed Second City Theater Improvisation Workshop in Chicago, Ill. William who is an actor and vocalist has performed in various musical productions, toured Canada with the Platters and performed as a backup vocalist with recording artist Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo of The Fifth Dimensions, Stephanie Mills, Deniece Williams and Phillip Bailey of Earth Wind and Fire, among others. William is currently collaborating on a production of Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and recently appeared in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at The Long Beach Playhouse, the critically acclaimed The Little Foxes at Antaeus Theatre: Towne Street Theatre; IN RESPONSE; THE FERTILE RIVER at Baylor University, and 2019 NAACP Theatre Award nominee PERIPHERY at The Hudson Theatre.

DIRECTORS

PARIS MCCARTHY (Guiding Light), she, has worked with PlayGround LA for 7 years first as an actor, then director, and now Associate Artistic Director. She freelances as a script reader but her finest achievement of 2020 is her daughter Clover.

FRIEDA DE LACKNER (We Jump Broom), she, is a director/producer/actor/writer for both film and theatre. Her film, Meeting Matt Damon, began as a play, written by Ron Burch, at PlayGround LA. She co-produced the feature, Hold On, which was released in theaters December 2019 and will be streaming soon. She is delighted to be a company member for Playground LA! Before moving to LA, she worked for over ten years with Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre Programs.

JESUS A. REYES (The Speck), he, has directed The Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre for East LA College @elactechicaltheatre IG, Mima by Remi Mark for The Blank Theatre’s YPF and as Community Partnerships Director at CTG commissioned short plays by Diana Burbano, Juan E. Carrillo, D’Lo, Forrest Hartl, Judy Soo Hoo, and Julie Taiwo-Oni. A longtime PlayGround director.

IVAN RIVAS (Courage), he, is a company member of PlayGround L.A. and Rogue Machine Theater. He is also Resident Director at Downtown Repertory / Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival and a proud alum of University of Southern California and Directors Lab West.

JIM KLEINMANN (Artistic Director; Underworld), he, 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.

JULLY LEE, (Waiting for Umoja), she, is the artistic director of COLD TOFU, the nation’s first and longest running Asian American improv company, as well as a resident director with PlayGround-LA. She has also directed with PlayGround-SF, Company of Angels, Exposition Review, hereandnow, East West Players, Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI), The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP), Playwrights’ Arena, Artists At Play, The Road Theatre, EST-LA, and Center Theatre Group in their Library Readings Series. As an actor, recent TV/film credits include S.W.A.T., Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Veep, The Kominsky Method, This Is Us and Henry Danger. For more information about her, Click HERE!

PRODUCTION

SARAH GASSER (Resident Stage Manager & Sound Designer) joined PlayGround in 2017 and has staged managed for the Monday Night PlayGround series and PlayGround Festival. She stagemanages for companies around the Bay Area, including Brava and Bay Area Children’s Theatre. In her administrative capacities, she assists with PlayGround’s marketing, social media, communications, and website, as well as serving as assistant to the Artistic Director.

COLIN JOHNSON (Visual Designer) is a multi-hyphenate production artist who has sullied the grounds of the Bay Area arts since 2008. His work has been produced or featured at PlayGround, Pianofight, The Circus Center Cabaret, San Diego Comic-Con, Image Comics, Potrero Stage, Pint-Sized Plays, The Olympians Festival, Shotz, Shotgun Players, The Curran, and various theatre, radio and film venues throughout the country. He is the Artistic Director of Awesome Theatre, Chief Creative Officer at Troubleshoot Productions and an Instructor / Director / Designer at Circus Center. He makes movies until he gets too frustrated and makes theatre until he has panic attacks.

PLAYGROUND-LA is the first regional expansion of the celebrated Bay Area playwright incubator and theatre community hub, PlayGround. PlayGround was launched in San Francisco in 1994 by co-founders Jim Kleinmann, Brighde Mullins and Denise Shama. In 1996, Kleinmann became PlayGround’s first Artistic Director. Since its founding, PlayGround has developed and staged over 950 original ten-minute plays by 250 Bay Area and Los Angeles early-career writers and has commissioned/developed more than 80 full-length plays. In the process of staging those works, PlayGround has helped to identify some of the leading emerging writers and, at the same time, has engendered the creation of a true community of theatre artists, bringing together hundreds of local actors, directors and playwrights. Each month, Oct-Mar, PlayGround-LA announces a topic to the thirty-six writers of the PlayGround-LA Writers Pool. Writers have four-and-a-half days to generate their original short plays and the top six are cast with leading local professionals and rehearsed for just 1.5 hours before being presented as script-in-hand staged readings on the second Monday of the month via Zoom live stream. At the end of each season, six of the thirty-six works developed in the Monday night series are selected for a one-night celebration, the Best of PlayGround Gala. The 9th annual Best of PlayGround Gala will take place on Monday, April 12, 2021, via Zoom live stream. PlayGround-LA is a fiscally sponsored project of PlayGround. For more information, visithttp://playground-la.org.

PLAYGROUND-LA CONTRIBUTORS

PlayGround-LA thanks the generous contributors whose donations make our programs possible. The following reflects donations made between March 1, 2020 and March 8, 2021.

Patrons ($250 and above)
Ruth & Robert Brayton, Michael Fried/Planet Earth Arts, Goldman Sachs, Becky Harris, Miss Rhea M. MacCallum, Les Ostrov, Nancy & Carty Spencer, Anonymous (2)

Associate Members ($125-$249)
Laverne Agard, Dr. Elaine Baskin, Frieda de Lackner, Angela Edewi, Dina Fisher, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Lizi Watt, Dale Underwood & Kirsti Aho, Anonymous

Supporting Members ($75-$124)
Miss Erika Agard, Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer, Karen & Michael Berk, In memory of Dylan Duncan Wright, Kathy Bette, Michael Borders, Kathleen Cecchin, Susan Hunter Eiden, Julianne Jigour, Paris McCarthy, Rob Roy and Kazue McGregor, Tahmus Rounds, Steven Rubio, Demetrius Wren, Anonymous

Contributing Members ($25-$74)
Daysha’s Big Sister, Charline Alexandre, Ms. Frieda de Lackner, Dana and Sumner Fein, Ms. Elaine Sandra Feincalvin, Casee B Francis, Sarah Gasser, Mr. Joshua Gershick, Frances Gillmor, Elayne Heilveil, Ms. Mildred Inez Lewis, Bette Linderman, Eliza McGowan-Stinski, Penny Mikesell, Harrison, Kam O’Horo, Sharon Ridge, Debba Rofheart, Emily Brauer Rogers, Jessica June Rowe, Jennifer Rowland, Collette Rutherford, Bill Simmons, Julianne Spencer Spencer, Anonymous, I’ve Decided I’m Not Going, Ms. Kristina Velasquez Witosky, Anonymous

Friends (Up to $24)
Chase Abrams, Michael Adams, Dr. Leslie Allee, Theresa Amy, Brandon Baer, Aldo Billingslea, Sylvia & Bill Blush, Rena Brewer, Ms. Lisa Bruce, Mind Your Own Business, Steve Budd, Diana Burbano, Hillary Burrelle, Ms. Marytheresa Capriles, Susan Culver, Ralph Damato, Lisa Dutton, Andrew Eiden, Robert Klump, Mrs. Rosette Laursen, Debra Lee, Claire Louge, Mrs. Sara Lowry, Luis Mayorga, Gabi Mayorga, Sherry M, Kerri McCanna, Eliza McNitt, Daniel Melling, Emily Eiden Murphy, Miss Nakasha Norwood, Laurel Ollstein, Doug O’Neill, Lorrie O’Shatz, Ms. Adrienne Whitney Papp, Vanessa Parish, Joshua Pritchard, Jesus Reyes, Mercedes Segesvary, Susan Sher, Sindy Swerdlove, LA Thomas, Lisa Thompson, Desireé York, Jo Yuan, Anonymous

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PLAYGROUND-LA WRITERS POOL 2020-21

Michael P. Adams, Amanda Andrei, Evan Baughfman, Rachel Borders*, Diana Burbano*, Kathleen Cecchin*, Bridget Connelly, Allie Costa*, Jerome Joseph Gentes*, Briggs Hatton, Elayne Heilveil, Susan C. Hunter, Uma Incrocci, Julianne Jigour*, Starina Johnson*, Mark V. Jones, Jonathan Josephson*, Ian Kaye, Arthur Keng*, Mildred Inez Lewis, Rhea MacCallum*, Eliza McGowan-Stinski, Misao McGregor*, Scott Mullen*, Nicholas C. Pappas*, Emily Brauer Rogers, Jessica June Rowe*, Richard Ruyle, Joe Samaniego, Mercedes Segesvary*, Mark Sherstinsky*, Ayesha Siddiqui, Nicki Spencer*, Charles Velasquez-Witosky, Daysha Veronica*, and Desiree York

      * Best of PlayGround Award recipient

PLAYGROUND-LA COMPANY

Jahnavi Alyssa, Josef Bette, Sylvia Cervantes Blush, Jordan Carlson, Jordan Covington, Frieda de Lackner, Carolyn Deskin, Rogelio Douglas III, Julio Hanson, Mark Jacobson, Kurt Kanazawa, Stephanie T. Keefer, Christopher Gary Lawson, Jully Lee, Christine Liao, Jackie Marriott, Gabi Mayorga, Paris McCarthy, Rondrell McCormick, Krystal Mosley, Tiffany Mualem, Gary Poux, Tiana Randall-Quant, Maiya Reaves, Jesus Reyes, Ivan Rivas, Debba Rofheart, Tahmus Rounds, Mae Ruling, Anthony Rutowicz, Lamar Usher, Carla Vega, William Warren, Charlotte Williams, Christina Wren, Demetrius Wren

PRODUCTION & STAFF

James A. Kleinmann
Co-Founder & Artistic Director

Paris McCarthy
Associate Artistic Director

Sarah Gasser
Resident Stage Manager & Sound Designer

Colin Johnson
Resident Visual Designer 

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