PlayGround-LA presents Season 13

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

“Dreams & Nightmares”
November 11th, 2024 7pm PT
Broadwater Second Stage & Vimeo Live Simulcast

ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT

PlayGround-LA acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Chumash, Tongva, and Kizh (“keech”), the original inhabitants of Los Angeles. As the past and present Indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Chumash, Tongva and Kizh Nation (Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians) 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 Chumash, Tongva and Kizh 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 Chumash, Tongva and Kizh Communities and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. We honor the storytellers of the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians 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-LA’S ANTI-RACIST POLICY

PlayGround-LA 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-LA 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-LA’s Anti-Racist Policy applies to: all members of the PlayGround-LA community, including employees, independent contractors, volunteers, audience members, donors, and general members of the community.

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Monday Night PlayGround Memberships

We are deeply grateful to our 2024-25 Monday Night PlayGround Members, whose direct support helps to underwrite artists fees for the Monday Night series across all four regions:

Dr. & Mrs. Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Sharon Baldwin, Tim Bishop, Ms. Linda B Breaux-Smith, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, John Brown, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Ben Cain, Joan Cleveland, Ms. Sheila Collins, Ms. Marilyn Berg Cooper, Logan Varas De Valdes, Cathy Earnest, Krystyna Finlayson, Hollis Greenwood, Ms. Elizabeth Groenewegen, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Brandy T Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Le Blanc, Alice Lehmann, Ms. Kristy Lin Billuni, Linda G Marks, Dr. Sheila McCormick, Dan Morley, Ms. Annette Oliveira, Mr. George Rose, Jessica June Rowe, Michelle Ruscetta, John J. Ruskin, Miyoko Sakatani, Mark Sherstinsky, Nancy W. Smith, Stan Stone, Cathy M Stonie, Michael Tonjum & Jan Gilman, Mary Lou Torre, Kim Tram, Vicki Victoria, Dr. Eidell Wasserman, and Ms. Cindy Womack. Thank you!

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Haunted Heart
by Damian Alejandro Arteaga
Directed by Tom Dang
William….Christian Haines
Mary…………..Melissa Ortiz

Bright Colors. Calm Music.
by Steve Harper
Directed by Andy Lowe
Nicole….…Krystal Mosley
Betty……………Carla Vega
Sam….Anthony Rutowicz

She Likes to Look at the Stars
by Scott Mullen
Directed by Cybelle Kaehler
Kurt………….Edward Hong
Anna………Natasha Galano
Molly…Stephanie T. Keefer

Her Name Was Lola
by Lauren Gorski
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Claire….Gabi Mayorga
Bruce………Kevin Phan

Anna Jarvis Hates Mother’s Day
by Uma Incrocci
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Anna Jarvis....Sherry Michaels
Mabel…………….Isabel Siragusa

All I Have To Do Is Dream
by Abel Marquez
Directed by Collette Rutherford
Rogelio…………Peter Pasco
Julian…..Charles Gonzales

Stage Manager – Devin Harris

This performance is produced under agreement with SAG-AFTRA.

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area, A.R.T.-New York, League of Chicago Theatres, and Theatre Communications Group.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

Following tonight’s performance, we invite your participation in this month’s People’s Choice Award. Through the People’s Choice Award, our audience can play a direct impact in furthering the career of a promising new playwright. To vote, make a People’s Choice Award tax-deductible donation on behalf of your favorite play(s)/playwright(s) from the evening. Every donated dollar counts as a vote while directly supporting PlayGround-LA’s award-winning incubator programs.

Cast your vote for your favorite play(s) by making a People’s Choice donation via Zelle (info@playground-sf.org), Venmo (our account ID is @playgroundsf and if they ask for the last four digits of the phone, it’s 8541) or on our website at https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/login?donationquick=23). Add a note/memo with your gift (you can use the donor acknowledgment section when donating on our website) to indicate your favorite play(s) or email your selection to boxoffice@playground-sf.org.

At the end of the week, we’ll tally up the top vote-getter and automatic semi-finalist for our season-ending Best of PlayGround. It’s a powerful way of showing your support for new writers and their work, while helping PlayGround-LA continue doing what we do!

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

DAMIAN ALEJANDRO ARTEAGA (Haunted Heart), he/him, is an accomplished playwright, actor and director in Southern California. This is his second year as part of the Writer’s Pool. During his first year his plays Reefer Girl and Land Amongst Sky were performed and his play The Family with a Short Fuse was chosen as Best of Playground(LA). His plays have seen staged readings at CSUF’s One Act Play Festival (S.D.H.I.F.L and Izzy,) The Larking House Playwright Intensive (The Hole,) and The Redlands Theatre Festival (Smiling for Non-Smilers.) He hopes to inspire the next generation of playwrights.

LAUREN GORSKI (Her Name Was Lola), she/her, has a Master’s in Professional Writing with emphasis in Stage and Screen from the University of Southern California. She writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, and stageplays. Her fiction and poetry have been featured in “apt”, “Badlands”, “Jersey Devil Press”, “Underground Voices”, and elsewhere. Her plays have been performed for the Hollywood Fringe, PlayGround (including the Best of Festival), PianoFight’s ShortLived series, NYC’s Spark, and more. She is a two-time playwright-in-residence with PlayGround, a writing incubator for new playwrights. She was also a finalist for Red Bull Theater’s 2023 Short Play Festival in NYC. Her full-length play THE BRAMFORD received a premiere presentation May-June 2023 in San Francisco. Lauren also serves on the National Board of Directors for Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (WYSE), a mentorship program that pairs college women with at-risk middle school girls, and is on the Editorial Board for Exposition Review, a multigenre literary journal.. She is currently working in production on TRON: ARES for Walt Disney Studios.

STEVE HARPER‘s (Excuse Me, Sir), he/him, play Excuse Me, Sir was last month’s People’s Choice selection. Other plays include Black Lives / Blue Lives [written with Bill Mesce, Jr.], Urban Rabbit Chronicles, Princeton Theory, and True Adventures for Men. Plays have been developed with Classical Theatre of Harlem and New York Theatre Workshop. Steve has written for the TV shows: Tracker, Stargirl, God Friended Me, and American Crime. His collection, A Few Short Plays to Save the World won the 2023 Independent Press Award. Find it at online retailers. Education: Yale, the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard and the Juilliard playwriting program. www.harpercreates.com

UMA INCROCCI (Anna Jarvis Hates Mother’s Day), has been a member of the PlayGround Writing Pool since 2018. Her play “To Keep and Bear” had a workshop at the New Ground Theater Festival at the Cleveland Playhouse in June 2024. Her short plays have been performed around the country, and recently, in Adelaide, Australia. You can catch her TV movies “Romance with a Twist,” “Nature of Love,” and “A Christmas Carousel” on the Hallmark Channel.

ABEL MARQUEZ (All I Have To Do Is Dream), he/him, is an award winning freelance Latiné director, playwright, and arts administrator. He has worked with organizations such as MACLA (San Jose), Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles), Latine Musical Theatre LAB (New York), and more. He currently serves as a Vice Chair for the Kennedy Center Theatre Festival, as Project Manager for URTA (New York), and as a Resident Teaching Artist at Segerstrom Center for the Arts (OC, CA).

SCOTT MULLEN‘s (She Likes to Look at the Stars), he/him, short plays have been produced almost 1000 times around the world, including at the South Pole. His full-length play Carl Flunt Would Protect You From Trucks premiered last year in Ohio. He has written five obscure TV movies, including one that aired on Lifetime.

ACTORS

NATASHA GALANO (She Likes to Look at the Stars, “Anna”), he/her, a Cuban-American actress and aspiring producer, embodies resilience and talent cultivated through her unique perspective. Her skill shines on both stage and screen, highlighted by her recent standout performance in “KNOX GOES AWAY,” expertly guided by Michael Keaton. A graduate of the esteemed North Carolina School of the Arts, Natasha is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, represented by Limitless Management and Daniel Hoff Agency Inc. Beyond her craft, Natasha finds joy in salsa dancing, has a deep appreciation for 90’s action films, and passionately supports cancer outreach as a two-time survivor.

CHARLES GONZALES (All I Have To Do Is Dream, “Julian”), he/him, is an actor with recent voice acting credits in Fallout 76, Disney’s Intertwined and the upcoming animated feature Kayara. He is happy to make his return to PlayGround once again.

CHRISTIAN HAINES (Haunted Heart, “William”), he/him, is a company member of PlayGround-LA. For Bay Area PlayGround has been seen in Sapience, Anna Considers Mars, Value Over Replacement (TBA Award for Featured Actor) as well as a bunch of Monday nights. He is the founding Artistic Director of Amios in NYC and the Producing Artistic Director of ShotzLA. He holds an MFA in acting from the National Theatre Conservatory. Much love and to family, friends and Melissa.

EDWARD HONG (She Likes to Look at the Stars, “Kurt”), he/him, is a Korean American artist and theatre critic for the Nerds Of Color who constantly obsesses over Cinnabons, watermelons, and is the proud father of his beloved feline fur babies. He’s been on a gaggle of primetime TV shows, indie films, video games, commercials, has dubbed over his own people in a variety of Netflix & Disney+ shows, and other miscellaneous things that help pay for his gluttonous addiction. He is currently repped by Ellis Talent Group and Mills Kaplan Entertainment.

STEPHANIE T. KEEFER (She Likes to Look at the Stars, “Molly”), she/her, a native Angelino, is an actor and filmmaker. Keefer graduated from U. C., Irvine where she studied with legendary theatre director Jerzy Grotowski. Favorite roles are Hannah in The Night of the Iguana, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Olivia in Twelfth Night. Her short films have garnered awards at festivals nationwide. She stars in the feature “A Girl, A Guy, A Space Helmet” currently on TUBI. See Stephanie’s work at IMDb.

GABI MAYORGA (Her Name Was Lola, “Claire”), she/her, she/her, is an actress, teacher and director. She was born in Jalisco, Mexico and grew up in the New Mexican desert. She received her BFA in acting from the Theatre School at DePaul University and performed on Chicago stages such as The Steppenwolf Garage and The Goodman Theatre. She’s acted in commercials and independent films, taught theater to young students and enjoys making short films.

SHERRY MICHAELS (Anna Jarvis Hates Mother’s Day, “Anna Jarvis”), she/her, is thrilled to return to PlayGround after a one-year absence in such a thoughtful and inspiring play. She’s a veteran voiceover, theatre and film actor and can currently be seen in commercials for Medicare Advantage and Verizon. She is represented by DPN for commercials.

KRYSTAL MOSLEY (Bright Colors. Calm Music., “Nicole”), she/her, is very excited to return to the Broadwater Theatre as a company member of PlayGround-LA. Originally from Chicago, Krystal has performed with Theatres such as Aurora Theatre/Broadway Factor (Swindlers), Palmbeach Dramaworks (Intimate Apparel) and Chicago Dramatist (10 Virgins). Krystal can be seen in the television series “The Wicked City” on All Blk Network and Amazon Prime , “Young and the Restless” on CBS and“The Neon Highway” on Netflix. Currently, Krystal can be seen on “Bold and the Beautiful “ on CBS as well as the Short Flim “172 -Push UPs” at the Ojai Film Festival. She would love to thank cast, Family and friends for their continued support!

MELISSA ORTIZ (Haunted Heart, “Mary”), she/her, is a PlayGround and ShotzSF company member. Favorite roles: Yazmin in Water by the Spoonful, Anna in Anna Considers Mars, and Masha in The Seagull. She received her MFA from the National Theater Conservatory and studies at John Rosenfeld Studio where she’s also a TA. She sends thanks to her family, friends, and husband for their love and support.

PETER PASCO (All I Have To Do Is Dream, “Rogelio”), he/el, es un actor de Nueva York que le encanta comer pollo a la brasa, nadar en la piscina de los vecinos, y el karaoke. Normalemente tiene varios datos para su biographia pero sigue triste por lo que paso con los Yankees y presiente que Juan Soto no regresara al Bronx. Que pena.

KEVIN PHAN (Her Name Was Lola, “Bruce”), he/him, is a queer Los Angeles-based actor, singer, and dancer. Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in acting from the University of Southern California (as well as a minor in Cinematic Arts), he is also a director, writer, and cast member of the sketch comedy troupe, Trifecta. TV: Better Things (Hulu), Chicago PD (NBC), Leverage: Redemption (Amazon), Angelyne (Peacock), Kickin’ It (Nickelodeon). Film: The Eye (Lionsgate). Regional Theatre: Earthquakes in London (Rogue Machine Theatre).

ANTHONY RUTOWICZ (Bright Colors. Calm Music., “Sam”), he/him, is enthralled to be playing in the MNPG. He’s done stuff in the Theatre, TV & film realms here and there for the past two decades. Always finding new fuel to keep his fire bright. And always finding new ways to that waterfall.

ISABEL SIRAGUSA (Anna Jarvis Hates Mother’s Day, “Mabel”), she/her, is an actor/filmmaker with a BA in Theater Studies from Yale University and an MBA from the University of Cambridge. Favorite credits include performing with Clowns Without Border in South Africa, playing God at SF Sketch Fest, dying as Desdemona in Othello, and speaking at San Diego Comic-Con. In her free time, she studies jiu jitsu and just finished writing, co-directing, producing, and acting in the short film, MotherEarth Inc.—a dark comedy on climate change, dating, and motherhood. Isabelsiragusa.com

CARLA VEGA (Bright Colors. Calm Music., “Betty”), she/her, a multidisciplinary performing artist from San Francisco, has been a member of PlayGround-LA since season 1. She is back from a break and so happy to perform with the PGLA company again! Recently, Carla sang with Nobuko Miyamoto’s band at GreatLeap.org’s FandangObon yearly festival in LA. In SF, she performed her original poem, “Beautiful Remembrance” with the Marigold Project to welcome Día de los Muertos celebrations. UPCOMING: Carla is excited to announce her recurring co-star role playing ‘Tana Lee’ in the thrilling new series, “CROSS” premiering 11/14 on Amazon Prime! Member, SAG-AFTRA. Latest projects: linktr.ee/iamcarlavega Follow: @iamcarlavega

DIRECTORS

TOM DANG (Haunted Heart), he/him, he/him, is an actor, director and writer based in Los Angeles, CA. Current Projects: As Actor: The Sympathizer (HBO) Angelyne (Peacock), Blue Bloods (CBS), Maika (Sundance), Accidental Getaway Driver (Sundance), The Resemblance (Netflix / Tribeca). As Director: Directors Lab West. He is happy to return for another installment of Playground LA! www.tomdangofficial.com / @thenameistomdang

CYBELLE KAEHLER (She Likes to Look at the Stars), she/her, is a film and theatre director who strives to tell meaningful queer and female focused stories. She has worked at South Coast Repertory, New Swan Shakespeare Festival, and Playground-LA. Her recent projects include directing and producing the new play “Restoration” at Hollywood Fringe, as well as directing “Alice in Wonderland” at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre Youth Education Series. She graduated from UC Irvine with degrees in Drama and Film, where she was co-president of Brick Theatre Company, a student collective focused on LGBTQ+ works. Her latest short film, Tombé, won Best Student Film at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood and at LA Sun Film Fest. She is overjoyed to be spending her third season with Playground-LA! cybellekaehler.com insta: @cybellerose

JIM KLEINMANN (Her Name Was Lola; 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-eight 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.

ANDY LOWE (Bright Colors. Calm Music.), he/him, founded San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre in 1995 where he served as Producing Artistic Director (’95-’05) overseeing over 40 full stage productions, staged readings & new works workshops. As a community advocate, he helped develop & run multiple special events; AAPI Cultural Festivals, Amp Music Festival, & Gam3rCon earning him two official mayoral commendations from the City of San Diego. In 2009 he developed the “Theatre in Residence” Program for La Jolla Playhouse which he ran as Coordinator, until leaving in 2013 for East West Players, the largest producer of Asian American Theatre in the nation, as director of Production and Casting. With EWP he has produced 6 seasons of new plays, & musicals including an Ovation Award winning production of Next to Normal, & the first post broadway run of Allegiance: An American Musical starring George Takei, managing a $1.6 million budget, on an Actors Equity modified LORT contract. Directing credits include; Cleveland Raining (’99), F.O.B (’01), The Goddess Of Flowers (’02), Fentor (’03), & in 2007, was awarded a $70k grant through the CCLP to develop Dear Miss Breed, produced by the San Diego Public Library and the Asian Story Theater.

IVAN RIVAS (Anna Jarvis Hates Mother’s Day), he/him/el, is a resident director at Downtown Rep/Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival and company member of Rogue Machine Theatre. He recently directed a play for “Around the Clock” at Rogue Machine Theatre at the Matrix. He is a proud alum of USC School of Dramatic Arts and Directors Lab West.

COLLETTE RUTHERFORD (All I Have To Do Is Dream), she/her, is pleased to be back directing with PlayGround for another season. Recent directing projects include: Twelfth Night (CSU-Fullerton), Blue Stockings (CSU – Fullerton), Gallathea (Infinite Jest Theatre Company), Joan (Catworks Productions), Romeo & Rosalind (Inglewood Playhouse), Urinetown: The Musical (CSU-Fullerton),and This is Not a Drill (SkyPilot Theatre). Other local projects include: Lysistrata Unbound (Not Man Apart/Odyssey Theatre Ensemble), The Blank Theatre’s annual Young Playwrights’ Festival, New American Theatre’s Festival of New One Acts, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Infinite Jest Theatre Company), An Ideal Husband (Kentwood Players) and Fefu and Her Friends (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble). ColletteRutherford.com Social@LaCollette

PRODUCTION

PARIS MCCARTHY (Executive Producer) is thrilled to be taking on the role of Executive Director this season. She holds a BA from Saint Louis University and an MFA from UNLV but truly PlayGround is where she has found her artistic home in 2013.

SCARLETT REDMOND (Casting Associate), she/her, is a Los Angeles-based SAG-AFTRA Actress, Voiceover Artist, and Casting Associate. Training: Emerson College (BFA), Stella Adler (NYC), John Rosenfeld Studios, and UCB LA. She’s a proud pup mama to a scruffy rescue named Chester Cheeseman and loves coffee, estate sales, and true crime podcasts. She’s a member of the PlayGround-LA Company.

DEVIN HARRIS (Stage Manager), he/him, is very excited to be working with PlayGround! Having just graduated USC, he’s excited to be doing theater in the real world! You can usually find him up on a ladder or at some shady open mic. Previous credits include: La Cage Aux Folles, Pasadena Playhouse (Assistant Lighting Designer), Happy Fall, Rogue Artist Ensemble (Assistant Lighting Designee), Eight Ball Theater (Production Manager). Enjoy the show!

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 1,000 original ten-minute plays by 250 Bay Area and Los Angeles early-career writers and has commissioned/developed more than 100 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. The 13th annual Best of PlayGround Gala will take place on Monday, April 14, 2025, live at the Broadwater Theaters and simulcast via Vimeo Live. For more information, visit http://playground-la.org.

COMING SOON VIA SIMULCAST

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, 2023 & November 11, 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 • 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+)

Paul Haahr, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, John H. Gilman, Sam Latham, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Just Play Productions, Linda Kremer, Ronald Whittier Family Foundation, Daniele Nathanson , Nitin, Molly Noble and Bob Guilbault, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, John J. Ruskin, Tom Swift, Malachy Walsh and Heather Robison, Janine Wilburn, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Phoenix Theatre SF, Hillary DeMartino, Paulette Donsavage, Regina S. Guggenheim, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Diane Leonard, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Dr. Gary W. London, Diane Sampson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Jeffrey Trescott, Anonymous

PATRON ($250-$499)

Nina Ball & Jon Tracy, Chris and Cindy Redburn, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Christian Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (3)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

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, Ms. Mildred Inez Lewis, Anonymous, Paris McCarthy, Kimberly Ridgeway, Ms. Jessica Rofé, Margo Rofé, Carolina Rojas Moretti, Katie Ryan, Louel Senores, Alex M. Shafer, Christine Sheppard, Stan Stone, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Scott Lebus & Susannah Wise

To contribute to PlayGround, visit https://playground-la.org/contribute or contact PlayGround Associate Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org or by phone at (833) 992-6677.

PLAYGROUND-LA WRITERS POOL

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, Paris Herbert-Taylor, Aaron Higareda+, Michael B. Kaplan+, Mikee Loria, Rhea MacCallum+, Abel Marquez, Scott Mullen+, Peter Pasco, 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

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

PRODUCTION & STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Paris McCarthy, Executive Producer
Tiana Randall-Quant, Associate Producer
Scarlett Redmond, Casting Associate

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