Best of PlayGround(LA) ’25 Playbill

Posted by on April 11, 2025

PlayGround-LA presents Season 13

BEST OF PLAYGROUND(LA) ’25

April 14th, 2025 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.

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Hello In There
by Paris Herbert-Taylor
Directed by Frieda de Lackner
John………………..Tahmus Rounds
Linda………………Stephanie Keefer
Joe…………………..Christian Haines

I Don’t Eat Pie
by Amy Ellenberger
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Erin……………Carene Rose Mekertichyan
Luke…………………………….Mark Jacobson
Waiter…………………….Matthew Henerson

Friendly Fire
by Damian Alejandro Arteaga
Directed by Abel Marquez
Arturo Gomez………Anthony Rutowicz

Every Blow
by Summer Broyhill
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Floriberto (Flori)……………….Jeff Torres
Valeria (Val)………Jacqueline Castañeda

Good Romans
by Baylee Shlichtman
Directed by Collette Rutherford
Octavian…………………………Greg Bryan
Octavia………………………Jahnavi Alyssa

Son of Kaiju
by Mikee Loria
Directed by Andy Lowe
Grogon……………………………Tony Kim
Jaeger……………………….Edward Hong
Blastoid……………………………Jo Yuan

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 & 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

DAMIAN ALEJANDRO ARTEAGA (Friendly Fire), 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.

BLAIRE BATTLE (Body Shop), they/she, is an actor, writer, and comedian. She is a graduate of UCLA’s school of Theater, Film, and Television, with a BA in theater and a certificate in writing for television. Blaire was a Screencraft semi-finalist for their tv pilot with long-time creative partner, Graham C. King. They also recently debuted their new play Rebis at Celebration Theater. Blaire has written and co-written a number of works with their production company, The Stranger Kind. including space fantasy webcomic Song of the Rainbow Sea, queer sci-fi rock opera Dreamverse, and post apocalyptic transgender radio play The Transient Bliss of Death by Fallout. @blaire.battle on ig and @thestrangerkind on all platforms.

SUMMER BROYHILL (Every Blow), she/her, is an actor, dancer, singer, musician, educator, and writer. She has performed on Broadway (Hairspray), National tours (Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray), Off-Broadway (Killer Therapy, The Day Before Spring, and The Independents), and in numerous regional productions, short films, and web series. Her solo play DREAM Lover debuted at the PlayGround-SF Solo Play Festival in 2022. She is a proud third-year member of the PlayGround-LA Writers Pool, where six of her short plays have been produced with two, Glue and Thirteenth Night, winning the People’s Choice Award. MFA: Old Globe/ University of San Diego Graduate Acting Program. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.

AMY ELLENBERGER (I Don’t Eat Pie), she/her, is a Los Angeles based playwright, producer, and actor. She is a founding member and current Artistic Producing Director of the site-specific theatre company Chalk Rep. With a passion for sustainability, she volunteers at Cottonwood Urban Farm and is a member of the San Fernando Valley Climate Reality Project. She holds a B.F.A from Otterbein College and an M.F.A. from UC San Diego.

PARIS HERBERT-TAYLOR (Hello In There), she/her, is a writer and producer developing for film, television, and stage. Her Christmas movie 12 Dares Of Christmas is available to stream on Peacock.

MIKEE LORIA (Son of Kaiju), he/him, is a Fil-Am storyteller/actor based in SoCal. He is thrilled to make his Monday Night PlayGround-LA debut writing Lost Drive. Mikee earned a double B.A. in Theatre and Film from UC Berkeley, and is an alumnus of A.C.T’s Summer Training Congress. He is writing a feature-length screenplay in collaboration with World Builders Incubator. He co-lead in the World Premiere of A Driving Beat at Flint Repertory Theatre in March of this year. IG: @mikeeloria

BAYLEE SHLICHTMAN (Good Romans), she/her, writes weird and magical plays about navigating relationships and autonomy. She has had her work produced or developed with AlterTheatre Ensemble, Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Curtis Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre/ LA, The Larking House, Long Beach Shakespeare Company, New Relic Theatre, Playground-LA, Secondary Location Productions, South Texas College Latinx New Play Festival, UC Irvine, Urbanite Theatre, The Vagrancy Theatre, The Wayward Artist, and The Workshop Theatre among others.

ACTORS

JAHNAVI ALYSSA (Good Romans, “Octavia“), she/her, has sung, danced, acted, fiddled and choreographed on stages across the country. Most recently in LA she was seen as 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

GREG BRYAN (Good Romans, “Octavian“), he/him, is so pleased to be returning to Playground-LA. He has worked with Playground for over 20 years. He has performed on stage in Los Angeles with Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Theatre@Boston Court. Regionally he has worked with Marin Theatre Company, San Jose Rep, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Foothill Theatre Company. He has been seen on screen recently in Young Sheldon, Mosquito Coast, True Detective, and Dead to Me.

JACQUELINE CASTAÑEDA (Every Blow, “Victoria (Val)“),is an artist and filmmaker. Jacqueline has written, produced, and starred in several shorts with her friends at Venture Works Film, receiving official selections at the LA Comedy Film Fest and LA Latinx Film Fest, among others. Her work touches on honoring women of color past and present, navigating the LA art scene as an artist of color, and finding balance and self acceptance. She affirms art is essential to promote a sense of growth, community, and activism. Keep up with her on Instagram, @post_moderngirl @ventureworks_film

CHRISTIAN HAINES (Hello In There, “Joe”), he/him, is a company member of PlayGround LA. For Bay Area PlayGround, he 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.

MATTHEW HENERSON (I Don’t Eat Pie, “Waiter”), he/him, has worked locally at the Ahmanson, A Noise Within, Deaf West, Laguna Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, Musical Theatre West, and South Coast Repertory, regionally at ACT, American Shakespeare Center, Denver Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Northern Stage, San Diego Musical Theatre, San Diego Repertory, and at Shakespeare festivals in Arizona, Colorado, Marin, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Utah. Tours: Flashdance the Musical (first national.) Film and television work includes One Day at a Time, The Fosters, Modern Family, Disney’s A Christmas Carol, Mars Needs Moms, and Jungle Book, as well as a recurring role on NCIS: Origins.

EDWARD HONG (Son of Kaiju, “Jaeger”), 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.

MARK JACOBSON (I Don’t Eat Pie, “Luke”), he/him, is thrilled to return to PlayGround! On stage, Mark was most recently seen in The Engagement Party at the Geffen, dir. Darko Tresnjak. On screen, he can be seen as a Supporting Lead opp. Morgan Freeman and Josh Hutcherson in 57 Seconds, opp. Kelsey Grammer in The 12 Days of Christmas Eve, in the upcoming seasons of Apple’s Platonic and ABC’s The Conners, as well as Welcome to Chippendales (Hulu), Obliterated (Netflix), This Is Us (NBC), FBI (CBS), The Rookie (ABC), and 9-1-1 (FOX), among others. That said, his greatest roles are father to Jada and husband to Victoria.

STEPHANIE KEEFER (Hello In There, “Linda”), 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.

TONY KIM (Son of Kaiju, Grogon), he/him, is very excited to be returning to PlaygGround-LA for Son of Kaiju! Recent credits include Tajomaru in Rashomon at Open Fist Theater (receiving a Best Lead Actor nomination from Broadway World) and La Mirada Theater, Helvetica at Ophelia’s Jump, King and I for Anchorage Repertory, A Wrinkle in Time at Sierra Madre Playhouse, and a former member of Cold Tofu, the nation’s oldest and continuous Asian Improv troupe. Tony is a current member of PlayGround-LA theater group, which is a playwright incubator, performing new works regularly. He is also a member of This Week This Week Sketch Comedy group at Open Fist Theater. Raised in San Diego, CA with an education in engineering, he loves nature anything, art (almost) everything, reading too much, and not playing enough video games. Thank you for supporting the arts. Follow him on IG: @tonykimtime

CARENE ROSE MEKERTICHYAN (I Don’t Eat Pie, “Erin”), she/her, is an artist, organizer, educator, and proud Black Armenian Angeleno. Selected stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, …Ladies and Gentleman of Colour, The Tempest, Knight of the BUrning Pestle, Pericles, (Independent Shakespeare Co.), Hunnysweet, Mama Mama Can’t You See (Coin & Ghost), Troy (Hero Theatre), The Three Musketeers (PVPA), Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta (Rogue Artists Ensemble), Macbeth (Northern Stage). She is the Artistic Associate for Social Justice at Independent Shakespeare Co. and Program Coordinator at Support Black Theatre. She received her training from Dartmouth College and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). @carenerose

TAHMUS ROUNDS (Hello In There, “John”), he/him, has been a stage and television actor for over 30 years, and was a Blue Man in Blue Man Group Chicago. His TV credits include How I Met Your Mother, Bones, and 911 Lonestar. Most recently he guest starred on the Prime series Upload. Tahmus is very excited to be in this 12th season of PlayGroundLA!

ANTHONY RUTOWICZ (Friendly Fire, “Arturo”), he/him, has almost reached his limit of providing bios to further self promote what he is bringing to the table. So, aside from that feeling, Anthony is honored to be in the Best of, thanks for watching and continuing to witness the evolution of Anthony Rutowicz and the work he’s been working on.

JEFF TORRES (Every Blow, “Floriberto (Flori)“), he/him, is a Mexican-American writer, director, and actor based in Los Angeles. He’s excited to bring these words to life and be a part of such a timely story.

JO YUAN (Son of Kaiju, “Blastoid”), she/they, is an Asian-American actor of Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean descent from Orange County. With training in Meisner, on-camera acting, voiceover, and comedy (including long-form improv, sketch, and Clown), Jo brings a versatile and authentic approach to each role. Highlights of her career include selections for ABC’s Workshop Week, NBCUniversal’s Launch with East West Players, and an invitation to Macmillan Audio’s Digital New Narrators program (2024). Jo’s voiceover work spans Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, and Amazon Prime. More at www.jo-yuan.com

DIRECTORS

FRIEDA DE LACKNER (Hello In There), she/her, is a director and producer who works in film and theatre. She is passionate about telling stories that make a positive difference. Her latest short film, 172 Push-Ups, is an adaptation of Scott Mullen’s play and stars PlayGround actors Krystal Mosely, Christina Wren, Jahnavi Alyssa, Jon Gentry, and Jonathan Wray. It has screened at festivals across the country and will screen at Poppy Jasper in April. She is delighted to have been a PlayGround member since 2013.

JIM KLEINMANN (I Don’t Eat Pie, 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 (Son of Kaiju), he/him, began as A “California Young Playwrights” finalist, winning production of his play at the Old Globe at age 18. He founded San Diego’s Asian American Repertory Theater; Directing & Producing through ten seasons as Artistic Director till 2005. Inaugural Coordinator of the “Theatre-In-Residence Program” at the La Jolla Playhouse 2007-12. Director of Production & Casting for EWP the past 12 years. He also directs/develops new plays, musicals & immersive experiences; notably 2011 Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog Live adaptation & R&D projects for Disney Imagineering. Fight Choreographer for productions at Laguna Playhouse, UC Riverside, USC, and Nominated for an Ovation in 2019 for Man of God.

ABEL MARQUEZ (Friendly Fire), 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).

IVAN RIVAS (Every Blow), he/him, has directed at theaters in NYC and all across LA including Rogue Machine at the Matrix, Zephyr, 24th Street Theatre, Los Angeles LGBTQ Center, Whitmore/Lindley, PRT, The Broadwater, and the historic Pico House. Assistant directed at CTG and The Old Globe. And lovingly served as a Teaching Artist at the Pasadena Playhouse and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (also in the acting company). He is a proud alum of the USC school of Dramatic Arts and Directors Lab West.

COLLETTE RUTHERFORD (Good Romans), she/her, is currently directing a reading of Dana Schwartz’s new play Hope for Morgan-Wixson’s New Works Festival: LA Chapters. Recent directing credits: Urinetown: The Musical (CSU – Fullerton), Gallathea (Infinite Jest Theatre), Joan (Catworks Productions), This is Not a Drill (SkyPilot Theatre), and Robbed! (The Wayward Artist). 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 Social@LaCollette

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.

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 • 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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