Best of PlayGround-LA ’26 Playbill

Posted by on April 5, 2026

PlayGround-LA presents Season 14

BEST OF PLAYGROUND(LA) ’26

April 6th, 2026 7pm PT
The 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.

To read the complete Anti-Racist Policy, click here.

Woosh
by Baylee Shlichtman
Directed by Grace Wilkerson
Palmito…………..Anthony Rutowicz
Santa Ana…………..Kyla Garcia

Couples Therapy
by Mark Sherstinsky
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Guy………………..Mark Jacobson

Waiting for… the Bus
by Esther Banegas Gatica
Directed by Andrés Agustín Barrera
Antonia…………..Jacqueline Castañeda
Susane…………..Julia Belanova

The Fire Horse
by Chil Kong
Directed by Tom Dang
Seven…………..Tony Kim
Chil…………..Edward Hong
Cheollum…………..Vivi Le

Dangers of a Kiss
by Abel Marquez
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Jorge…………..Greg Cuellar
Richard…………..Greg Bryan
Patron…………..Tony Kim

Jesus Christ!
by Damian Alejandro Arteaga
Directed by Collette Rutherford
Jesus………….. Jahnavi Alyssa
Judas…………..Brianna Barrett
Godspell Jesus…………..Anthony Rutowicz

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.

This program is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD & NEW PLAY COMMISSION

Following tonight’s performance, we invite your participation in the Best of PlayGround-LA 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 New Play Commissioning program.

Cast your vote for your favorite play(s) by making a People’s Choice donation via Zelle (info@playground-la.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://playground-la.org/monday). 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 next two weeks, we’ll tally up the top vote-getter and recipient of this year’s PlayGround-LA New Play Commission, a full-length expansion and adaptation of their award-winning Best of PlayGround-LA Gala short play. 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

BAYLEE SHLICHTMAN (Whoosh), she/her, writes magical plays about love and autonomy. Her work has been produced or developed with AlterTheatre Ensemble, Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Ensemble Studio Theatre/ LA, Flamboyán Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Commons, New Relic Theatre, UC Irvine, Urbanite Theatre, The Vagrancy Theatre, The Workshop Theatre and others. She is currently under commission with Playground-LA for her full-length play GOOD ROMANS. MFA, UC Riverside ’27.

MARK SHERSTINSKY (Couples Therapy), he/him, has been in the PlayGround family since the 20th century! Last Christmas, his play ‘Shadow of an Uncle Nick’ was part of PlayGround-SF’s ‘A Very Hitchcock Christmas’. Mark recently completed his full-length play ‘The Mission’ (PlayGround-LA People’s Choice commission). Other plays include ‘The Sound of Invasion’ (Towne Street Theatre, Los Angeles); ‘The Things We Do for Love’ (Strange Rx, San Francisco); and ‘The Valley’ (Pittsburgh New Works Festival). Mark’s radio play ‘No Tree’ aired on Shoestring Radio Theatre (KXSF, San Francisco) and his short play ‘Silver Linings’ was published in RipRap Journal.

ESTER BANEGAS GATICA (Waiting for… the Bus), she/her, is a Honduran bilingual playwright, actress, director, and translator. She’s a graduate of Teatro Prometeo from Miami Dade College. She’s obtained a BFA from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She’s taught and performed with/at: Miami Hispanic International Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, the Gluck Foundation, and Fort Worth Fringe. Esther is a recent graduate from the University of California, Riverside with an MFA in writing for the performing arts. She is a Line Producer for Lime Arts productions and part of PlayGround-LA, as well as part of Black Voice News. Follow her work @esteyg

CHIL KONG (The Fire Horse), he/him, is an inspirational keynote speaker, story coach, and artistic disruptor who speaks on storytelling, optimizing public performances and leadership in the midst of chaos. His speech on “How learning to embrace my mother’s kimchi eyes helped me tell better stories” has inspired leaders and garnered rave reviews at multiple leadership events across the country. His gift of storytelling includes film/TV, plays and poetry, but he started in Theater which has served as his creative home, his play FIRE HORSE was recently awarded one of the Best of Playground LA 2025-2026 season. @chilkong

ABEL MARQUEZ (Dangers of a Kiss: A Short Play), he/him, is an award-winning freelance latin director, dramaturg, playwright, and arts administrator. He has collaborated with organizations like Center Theatre Group, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Am, Theatre of NOTE, and more. Abel is the Project Manager at U/RTA (NY), a Teaching Artist at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, serves on the American College Theatre Festival Executive Committee, is a company member of Bethesda Repertory Theatre, and a director/producer for Brown and Out Festival. Recently, Abel premiered his play, My Brother’s Keeper, at Boston Court Pasadena and received the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion Award.

DAMIAN ALEJANDRO ARTEAGA (Jesus Christ!), he/him, is an accomplished playwright based in Southern California. He has been a member of PlayGround-LA’s Writers Pool since 2023 and will now have been staged 11 times over the course of the three seasons. He was also recognized as the winner of the Full Circle Players: Emerging Voices Festival with his play “Super Duper Happy Immigrant Funtimeland,” which will receive a full production on May 29th and 30th in Riverside, CA. His PlayGround play, ‘Friendly Fire,” was staged for the Hell or High Water festival at Different Strokes PAC in North Carolina, for which he was awarded as an Audience Favorite. Other theaters where his work has been performed include The Redlands Theatre Festival, Little Fish Theatre, and the Morgan Wixson Theatre.

ACTORS

JAHNAVI ALYSSA (Jesus Christ!, “Jesus”), has sung, danced, acted, fiddled and choreographed on stages across the country. New feature film Superbloom on PrimeVideo! Theatre credits in LA: Shelby Latcherie in Kentwood Player’s “Steel Magnolias”, Anne Redferne in Downtown Repertory’s sensationally reviewed “Witch!”, 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.) Find her online: @jahnavialyssa

BRIANNA BARRETT (Jesus Christ!, “Judas”), she/her, is an award-winning writer, director, and producer currently based in Los Angeles. An Irish-American daughter, her goal is to create female-driven work that inspires and strengthens our empathy towards others. She has performed on the Annie Russell Stage, in the Fred Stone Theatre, the Orlando Shakes, and in productions at the Orlando and New Orleans Fringe Festivals. In her commercial work, she has collaborated with Disney+, Universal Studios, Disney World, Hallmark, and more. Her films have garnered awards across the country, and she was a finalist for the 2025 Geffen Playhouse Writing Competition. She just wrapped post-production on her most recent project, Chiaroscuro, which is set to premiere at festivals later this year. She is currently in development on a feature film in collaboration with another writer, also named Brianna Barrett.

JULIA BELANOVA (Waiting for…the Bus, “Susane”) she/they, is thrilled to be part of Best of PlayGround LA! Film/TV credits include: Mayans (recurring, seasons 4 and 5), Five Nights at Freddy’s, Lisa Frankenstein, and Sugar. Onstage, Julia has performed with Diversionary Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, American Repertory Theater, and Marin Shakespeare Company (among others). Upcoming: two films, Amador and Holy Fans. Gratitude to PlayGround LA and to every artist out here doing the thing in 2026 – thank you for sharing your light.

GREG BRYAN (Dangers of a Kiss: A Short Play, “Richard”), he/him, is happy to be returning to the Playground stage. He has worked with Playground since 1998. He has appeared locally onstage at The Mark Taper Forum, The Geffen Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Deaf West Theatre and Theatre @ Boston Court. His recent TV credits include Young Sheldon, Euphoria, True Detective, Mosquito Coast, Dead to Me, Www.gregbryan.com

JACQUELINE CASTAÑEDA (Waiting For…The Bus, “Antonia”), she/her, is a company member at Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Towne Street Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, and Playground LA. Jacqueline has written, produced, and starred in several shorts at Venture Works Film, receiving official selections at the LA Comedy Film Fest and LA Latinx Film Fest. She affirms art is essential to promote a sense of growth, community, and activism. Theatrical/commercial representation: Tangerine Talent; IG: @post_moderngirl @ventureworks_film

GREG CUELLAR (Dangers of a Kiss: A Short Play, “Jorge”), he/they, is an actor whose work spans new plays, classical theater, television, and audio. He recently completed the five-hour epic Initiative at The Public Theater, developed over six years with its original company. Off-Broadway credits include Comedy of Errors (Classic Stage Company), Play On! Shakespeare Festival (CSC/OSF), and the LAMBDA finalist I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet (New Light). Regional work includes The Mousetrap (Guthrie Theater and Berkshire Theatre Group). TV: New Amsterdam (NBC). Training: MFA Columbia University.@itsgregcuellar

KYLA GARCIA (Woosh, “Santa Ana”), she/her/tiya, is a Taíno poet, actor, director, and audiobook narrator based in unceded Tongva land. She believes stories are medicine and thinks her 10-year-old self would be pretty jazzed that they get to tell them for a living. Career highlights include Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Sovereignty at Arena Stage where she performed for Gloria Steinem and Ruth Bader Ginsberg and starring alongside Jessica Chastain on the hit podcast series The Space Within on Audible. TV/Film: NBC’s New Amsterdam, Spirit.@kylark

EDWARD HONG (The Fire Horse, “Chil”), he/him, is a Korean American artist and theatre critic for the Nerds Of Color and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle who constantly obsesses over free watermelons. He is part of the Actors Studio directors unit and has recently directed for Echo Theater Company in their 2025 short play festival as well as staged readings conducted at Company of Angels and Japanese American National Museum. Most importantly, he is the proud father of his beloved feline fur babies. @Cinnabonmonster

MARK JACOBSON (Couples Therapy, “Guy”), he/him, considers Playground-LA family and is honored to take part in Best Of this year. On stage, Mark has been seen at Geffen Playhouse, Rogue Machine, A Noise Within, Rubicon, Kingsmen Shakespeare and Coeurage. Recent on-camera credits include: Platonic (Apple), The Conners (ABC), Welcome to Chippendales (Hulu), Obliterated (Netflix), FBI (CBS), The Rookie (ABC), 9-1-1 (Fox), This Is Us (NBC), among others. He can be heard as Jonathan in DAVID, the animated feature that opened at #2 in the US, and in a slew of video games including Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2. Catch him this holiday season in Jumanji 3!

TONY KIM (The Fire Horse, “Seven”), he/him, is very honored to be performing again for The Fire Horse. This play is beautiful, the cast and director are very talented.

VIVI LE (The Fire Horse, “Cheollum”), she/her, is an Actor and Theatre Director based in Los Angeles. Despite having little access to the arts, she overcame socio-economic and cultural barriers, eventually attending UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. The stories that excite her usually involve cycles. Complicated truths. Lands very different from ours, or eerily similar. She is inspired by community, and the infectious spirit of fellow artists. You may know her as Assistant Director of ON THIS SIDE OF THE WORLD at East West Players, SWEENEY TODD at A Noise Within and as the most recent DIRECTING APPRENTICE at Playground LA. Instagram @viviaile

ANTHONY RUTOWICZ (Whoosh, “Palmito”; Jesus Chris!, “Godspell Jesus”), he/him, is ecstatic to be in this seasons’ Best of Show Gala Presentation/remounting/replay. Anthony is currently working hard at making things look easy. Check his IMDb to see just a sliver of the different/random gigs he has done over the years. Fun fact: Anthony climbed his first 50 foot palm tree when he was 18.

DIRECTORS

ANDRÉS AGUSTÍN BARRERA (Waiting for…the Bus), him/him, is a Latino director, playwright, and community advocate dedicated to Latine-centric and multilingual narratives. A Cody Renard Richard Scholar, he is the co-founder of Napa’s Teatro Alebrijes del Valle and a board member for Arts Council Napa Valley. Currently a Directing student at UCLA and a proud Napa Valley College transfer, his work focuses on the intersection of cultural heritage and contemporary performance. Selected Directing: Waiting for… The Bus (PlayGround-LA), Belly of The Beast (PlayGround-SF Free-Play Festival), Enemigo del Pueblo (Teatro Alebrijes del Valle), The Zoo Story (Napa Valley College).

TOM DANG (The Fire Horse), he/him, is a Vietnamese-American actor, director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. Originally from Seattle, his background includes directing and developing stage productions where he cultivated a style focused on physical theatre, ritual, and creating atmosphere. While there, he also served as the producing artistic director of local theatre company REBATEnsemble Theatre Group. Tom attended the University of Washington where he trained learned both filmmaking and acting, and as an actor he is most known for his recent work on HBO’s The Sympathizer. IG: @thenameistomdang

JIM KLEINMANN (Dangers of a Kiss: A Short Play), 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.

IVAN RIVAS (Couples Therapy), he/him, is a Los Angeles based theatre director and producer who works primarily with Rogue Machine Theatre, PlayGround-LA, and Downtown Rep/Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival. He is a proud alum of USC School of Dramatic Arts and Director’s Lab West.

COLLETTE RUTHERFORD (Jesus Christ!), she/her, recently directed The Gradient (CSU-Fullerton) as well as new play workshops for OC Playwright’s Alliance EMBARK program and Moving Arts’ MADLab program. Other directing credits: Urinetown: The Musical (CSU – Fullerton), Gallathea (Infinite Jest Theatre), Joan (Catworks Productions), This is Not a Drill (SkyPilot Theatre). Other select credits: Little Shop of Horrors (South Coast Repertory), Lysistrata Unbound (Not Man Apart/Odyssey Theatre Ensemble), The Osanbi Deal (The Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series), Fefu and Her Friends (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble). Collette is the Producing Artistic Director for Infinite Jest Theatre. ColletteRutherford.com

GRACE WILKERSON (Woosh), she/her, is an LA based director and dramaturg. Her recent work includes assistant directing on Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2025 season, as well as directing the award nominated world premiere folk musical Where Within at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival, The Wolves with the Morgan-Wixson Theatre, and Trap with Aeneid Theater Company. Grace has collaborated with Chalk Rep, Blank Theater, Outside In Theater, and the Geffen Playhouse. She is a member of Rogue Artists Ensemble, an immersive and experimental theater company, where she just finished a workshop of Chelsea Sutton’s gothic horror play, Far Worse Things. www.grace-wilkerson.com

PRODUCTION

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-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.

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.

OPPORTUNITIES WITH PLAYGROUND

STREAMING SOON

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 February 1, 2024 & February 17, 2025.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • Art Space Development Corporation • Avenue Greenlight • Berkeley Civic Arts • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • Creative Capacity Fund • Disney • Grants For The Arts • KFF • Koret Foundation • Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture • LA County Arts Commission • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Daniel E. Cohn & Lynn Brinton, John H. Gilman, Isabella Johnson, Nitin

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, Jediah Craig, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Regina Guggenheim, Just Play Productions, Linda Kremer, Ronald Whittier Family Foundation, Daniele Nathanson, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, John J. Ruskin, Tom Swift, Malachy Walsh & Heather Robison, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Phoenix Theatre SF, Jim Brayton & Debbie Marr, Richard Davis – Lowell, Paulette Donsavage, Kate Hecht, Toby Inoue, Diane Leonard, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Diane Sampson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Janine Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (2)

PATRON ($250-$499)

Nina Ball & Jon Tracy, Ruben & Keli Grijalva, Patience Haggin, Brandy T Jones, Abbe S. Kalos & Kitt Saginor, Dr. Gary W. London, Rebecca Martinez, Christopher Reber, Chris & Cindy Redburn, JM Solberg, Anonymous (2)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Dr. & Mrs. Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Ms. Portia F. Bock, Cass Brayton, Thomas Patrick Broyhill, Joyce Dieda, Clint Fleener, Michael Fried, Gina Harris, Stanley William Hathaway, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Jean Jensen, Gregg Le Blanc, Mildred Inez Lewis, Pam MacKinnon, Clover Rutkowski, Mark Peters, Ms. Jessica Rofé, Margo Rofé, Carolina Rojas Moretti, Kathy Sarconi, Stan Stone, Bex White, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Anonymous

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 (833) 992-6677.

PlayGround-SF Writers Pool 2024-25

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Tanika Baptiste, Daniel Baxter, Nico Bocalan, Robyn Brooks, Madeleine Butler, Melina Cohen-Bramwell, Jediah Craig, rob dario, Laura Domingo, Elizabeth Flanagan, Reed Flores, Antonio Greene, Garret Groenveld, KT Frances Hartline, Grace Hoffman, Everett Holland, Christine C. Hsu, Carl Johnson, Ruth Kirschner, Sarena Kuhn, Greg Lam, Jennifer Le Blanc, Kristy Lin Billuni, Daniel Martinez Jr., Richard Perez, Bridgette Portman, Kimberly Ridgeway, George Rose, Louel Señores, Alexis Standridge, Stan Stone, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Kaz Valtchev, Livian Yeh, Maury Zeff.

PLAYGROUND-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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