PlayGround-LA presents Season 12

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

“The Shakespeare Multiverse”
January 8th, 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 2023-24 Monday Night PlayGround Members, whose direct support helps to underwrite artists fees for the Monday Night series across all four regions: Sharon Baldwin, Jaisey Bates, Tim Bishop, Ms. Linda B Breaux-Smith, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Ben Cain, Julie Campbell, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Joan Cleveland, Ms. Marilyn Berg Cooper, Ann Ehrmann, Ms. Cherielyn Ferguson, Krystyna Finlayson, Sheri Flanders, Conde Freeman, Dr. Jan Gilman, Michael Tonjum & Jan Gilman, Hollis Greenwood, Dana Hall, Rachel Harner, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Brandy T Jones, Ms. Anne M. Krause, Emily Kuroda, Ms. Kristy Lin Billuni, Mr. John Lindner, Jonathan Luskin & Leslie Katz, Rhea MacCallum, Brian Markley, Linda Marks, Dr. Sheila McCormick, Ms. Cynthia L Morishige, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Annette Oliveira, Ms. Vicki Oswald, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Mrs. Elizabeth Poston, Mr. George Rose, Jessica June Rowe, Michelle Ruscetta, John J. Ruskin, Kathryn Ryan, Miyoko Sakatani, Louel Senores, Mark Sherstinsky, Nancy W. Smith, Stan Stone, Mr. Richard Dana Swart, Kim Tram, Michael E Tuton, Dr. Eidell Wasserman, and Janine Wilburn. Thank you!

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Shakespeare is the Worst
by Shoshanna Green
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
The Host……………..…Ben Cain
Actor 1……………...Greg Cuellar
Actor 2……….Anthony Rutowicz
Actor 3…………………….Tony Kim

This Cold Night
by Lauren Gorski
Directed by Paris Crayton III
Cordelia………………….Eliza Frakes
Thomas…………….Matthew Henerson
Edward…………………… Andrew Perez

Ro and Julieta
by Adrian A Babatunde Thomas
Directed by Gabi Mayorga
Ro.………………………….Jalen Eason
Merc………………………..Jon Gentry
Julieta……………………..Natasha Galano
Nurse………………………..Jahnavi Alyssa

Witches
by Cara Sanchez
Directed by Paris McCarthy
Young Woman……………….….Hillary DeMartino
First Witch….……………………….Stephanie Keefer
Second Witch…………………..Tiana Randall-Quant
Third Witch…………………………Scarlett Redmond

Undisputed
by Baylee Shlichtman
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Lear……………………Tahmus Rounds
Goneril…………….……Jordan Carlson
Regan…………………….Isabel Siragusa
Cordelia……………………Krystal Mosley

Remembrance
by Allie Costa
Directed by Frieda de Lackner
Hamlet…………………….Kevin Phan
Ophelia…………………………Mae Ruling

Stage Manager – Jay Dutcher

House Manager – Julie Lippert-Pasco

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-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 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

ALLIE COSTA (Remembrance), she/her, is an actor, writer, director, and singer working in film, TV, theatre, and voiceover. She recently wrapped two films and is currently in rehearsal for a musical. Her acting credits include Spring Awakening, 90210, You Me & Her, Future Shock, Alien vs. Musical, and Slayers: A Buffyverse Story. She’s also appeared in commercials and podcasts, narrated audiobooks and documentaries, and lent her voice to video games and animated projects. Her work has been produced internationally, including the critically acclaimed Two Girls, Music of the Mind, Boxes Are Magic, and Can You Keep a Secret? Occasionally, she sleeps. http://www.alliecosta.com http://www.imdb.me/alliecosta

LAUREN GORSKI (This Cold Night), 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 and was nominated for the Rella Lossy Award. She is on the Editorial Board of Exposition Review, a multi-genre digital literary journal that publishes and invests in new, emerging, and established writers.

SHOSHANNA GREEN (Shakespeare is the Worst), she/her, has done a lot of things and plans to do a lot more. Shoshanna says she’s from Philadelphia, but she grew up in Pittsburgh and her family lives in New Zealand. She is a UCB graduate and current writer on The Pack House Team Corduroy. More info at: www.ShoshannaRuthGreen.com 

CARA SANCHEZ (Witches), she/her, is a recent graduate of Cal State Fullerton, where she studied theatre and film. Recently, she had a workshop reading of her full-length play, The Dybbuk: A Reimagining with The Larking House Theatre. Also, her murder mystery one-act, Stage Fright, was produced at the CSUF Advanced Directing showcase. Her other works, Catching Violets and Finding Faith, have been performed at CSUF as well. She’s received a certificate of exceptional writing from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

BAYLEE SHLICHTMAN (Undisputed)

ADRIAN A. BABATUNDE THOMAS (Ro and Julieta), he/him, studied Theatre Arts at Prairie View A&M University where learned the craft of playwriting from Dr. Ted Shine. He has over 25 years of writing experience. He was mentored by Philip Hayes Dean at The Robey Theatre’s playwright’s lab. Adrian has produced, written, and directed many plays and films and has served as Technical Director for numerous theatres.

ACTORS

JAHNAVI ALYSSA (Ro and Julieta, “Nurse”), she/her, has sung, danced, acted, fiddled, and choreographed on stages across the country. Most recently in LA she was seen as 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.) 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. Find her online: @jahnavialyssa & www. jahnavialyssa.com

BEN CAIN (Shakespeare is the Worst, “The Host”), he/him, is a proud member of this wonderful group of artists. I am currently co-starring in a 2023 movie on Amazon Prime called “That’s Funny”. Please check it out! And coming soon to the shows “Beacon 23” on MGM+ and “American Rust Season 2” on Freevee.

JORDAN CARLSON (Undisputed, “Goneril”), she/her, is an actor/ screenwriter/ and producer. She has been with Playground LA since the Zephr days. Jordan recently wrapped a comedy short in which she plays an Italian American single mother and a horror film on loss, redemption, and letting go. Jordan’s short film, Canopy, was a part of the official selection at the Culver City Film Festival. You can find her on social media @girljordancarlson

GREG CUELLAR (Shakespeare is the Worst, “Actor 1”), he/him, is a Mexican-American actor. He recently voiced Ferdinand in THE TEMPEST starring Jay O. Sanders (Next Chapter Podcasts). Greg can be seen guest-starring on NEW AMSTERDAM (NBC) and BEAUTY OF A BLANK SPACE (2022 Audience Award at Austin Film Festival). Select NY Theatre: Dromio of Syracuse in COMEDY OF ERRORS (Classic Stage), Jeremy O. Harris’ THE FEELS…(KMS), I WANNA F*CK LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET (New Light Theatre), PLAY ON! Shakespeare Festival (CSC/OSF) and IT’S ONLY A PLAY opposite Broadway Legends Kristine Nielsen and Julie Halston, directed by Tony-nominated Kevin Cahoon (George Street Playhouse). Development with the Public and Page 73. Education: Columbia.

HILLARY DEMARTINO (Witches, “Young Woman”), she/her, is excited to be working with Playground! Her most recent creative endeavors include studying Shakespeare with Charles Pasternak (Porters of Hellgate) and singing backup vocals for a local musician.

JALEN EASON (Ro and Julieta, “Ro”), he/him, Michigan native, Jalen Eason, has chosen to live by these words. After graduating high school, he began his acting journey at Chicago’s Roosevelt University. Here he studied the classic Constantin Stanislavski method of acting while doing plays in the city as well as short films. At the end of college, he packed up and moved to Los Angeles where he learned the Meisner Technique and began filmmaking. He co-founded Apt. 56 Productions with his wife, Cori Munro, and has been chasing a career in film ever since.

ELIZA FRAKES (This Cold Night, “Cordelia”), she/her, is an actor and writer currently living in Los Angeles. Her newest play, Certain Death and Other Considerations premiered to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023 and is now running at the Echo Theater in Los Angeles. Her most recent credits include playing The Surrogate in Certain Death and Other Considerations, PA Julie on General Hospital, and Maz in Maz and Bricks at Corrib Theatre. She is thrilled to be a company member with Playground LA.

NATASHA GALANO (Ro and Julieta, “Julieta”), she/her, is a Cuban-American actress and aspiring producer who arrived in Los Angeles by way of Florida and New York. Known for her role in “KNOX GOES AWAY” directed by Michael Keaton, Natasha is a North Carolina School of the Arts alum. A member of SAG-AFTRA, she’s represented by Limitless Management and Daniel Hoff Agency Inc. Outside of acting, Natasha enjoys salsa dancing, 90’s action movies, and passionately supports cancer outreach as a two-time survivor.

JON GENTRY (Ro and Julieta, “Merc”), he/him, was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Theater credits include A Play is A Poem (Mark Taper Forum), Clybourne Park, Marcus; or, the Secret of Sweet, A Christmas Carol (ACT), Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Masao & The Bronze Nightingale (CASA 0101) Trouble in Mind (Aurora Theater Company). TV/Film: Somang, Ten, Outlaw Empires. MFA: American Conservatory Theater. BA: Harvard. Social Media: @gentryjon

MATTHEW HENERSON (This Cold Night, “Thomas”), he/him, has appeared locally at the Ahmanson, A Noise Within, Deaf West, East West Players, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, and regionally at ACT, Bay Street Theater, Laguna Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory and at Shakespeare festivals in Arizona, Colorado, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Utah. Recent work includes Stan in Sweat at Northern Stage and Claudius/Ghost in Hamlet at the American Shakespeare Center. Film/Television: One Day at a Time, Modern Family, The Fosters, Hung, The Bernie Mac Show, Torn Apart, Ticking Clock, A Christmas Carol, Mars Needs Moms, and The Jungle Book.

STEPHANIE KEEFER (Witches, “First Witch”), she/her, Native Angelino Stephanie T. 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. Keefer’s 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 (Shakespeare is the Worst, “Actor 3”), he/him, is very excited to be a part of Season 12!! 4th year with Playground-LA and couldn’t be more grateful. Thanks for coming to support live theater.

KRYSTAL MOSLEY (Undisputed, “Cordelia”), she/her, 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!

KEVIN PHAN (Remembrance, “Hamlet”), 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). 

TIANA RANDALL-QUANT (Witches, “Second Witch”), she/her, is a born and raised Angeleno trying to change the narrative that “LA is not a theatre town”. Her goal is to create theatre that gives a glimpse into a world full of love and healing. Her creative focus revolves uplifting the voices of the underrepresented and marginalized, particularly that of queer Black women. Her biggest inspirations include Audre Lorde, Rihanna, and her sister Jade. She is also a proud co-drafter of the new LA ARTS Document, and a proud co-founder of BLKLST, an organization focused on anti-racism and accountability in Los Angeles Theatre. She can also be found making fun comedy and gaming content with The 354 Squad on YouTube.

SCARLETT REDMOND (Witches, “Third Witch”), 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.

TAHMUS ROUNDS (Undisputed, “Lear”), he/him, has been a professional actor for over 30 years, appearing in many television shows, including How I Met Your Mother, Bones, Grey’s Anatomy, Parks and Recreation, and Criminal Minds. He can be seen in S3E2 of Upload on Amazon Prime. 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 have been involved with PlayGround-LA for the past 12 years!

MAE RULING (Remembrance, “Ophelia”), she/her, is a Los Angeles-based actress and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. She recently finished recording her fifth audiobook and post-production on a short film that she wrote and starred in about Carole Lombard and Clark Gable. Mae is delighted to be returning to the stage with her fellow Playground LA company members.

ANTHONY RUTOWICZ (Shakespeare is the Worst, “Actor 2”), he/him, seems to always be attempting to pen the perfect bio. Anthony has done Theatre in many places. Been doing PlayGround Monday nights for 6-8 years. Was the resident bartender on Young Sheldon last season. Recently played a creep on a bus for the Prime Video Blumhouse movie ‘Run Sweetheart Run’.

ISABEL SIRAGUSA (Undisputed, “Regan”), she/her, is an actor and filmmaker with a BA from Yale University in Theater Studies and an MBA from the University of Cambridge. Selected film credits include Capps Crossing, The Trade, The Ark (San Diego Comic-Con) and Pater Mater. Favorite theatre credits include Desdemona in Othello (African American Shakespeare Company) and the one-woman show Fragile Decisions (The Marsh). Isabel also performed at SF SketchFest and with Clowns Without Borders. In her free time, she studies jiu-jitsu and is in pre-production for a dark comedy on climate change, dating, and motherhood. Isabelsiragusa.com

DIRECTORS

PARIS CRAYTON III (This Cold Night), he/him, is an award-winning playwright, actor, and director. He was one of ArtsATL’s “30 under 30” and Atlanta Journal Constitution’s “Artist to watch.” Critics have called him “a powerful dramatist” and praised him as “One of the most important playwrights of our time.” His directing credits include; Labyrinth of Desire at The University of Kansas. Crumbs from the Table of Joy at DeSales University. Chasing Gods at Davidson College. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Pure Artistry. Mama Bear at Out of Box Theatre, and more. Please visit www.ParisCrayton3.com for more info.

FRIEDA DE LACKNER (Remembrance), she/her, is a theater and short film director and producer. She recently turned Scott Mullen’s play, 172 Push-Ups, from Playground LA, into a short film starring Playground actors Krystal Mosley, Christina Wren, Jahnavi Alyssa, and Jon Gentry.

JIM KLEINMANN (Shakespeare is the Worst), 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.

GABI MAYORGA (Ro and Julieta), 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. 

PARIS MCCARTHY (Witches), she/her, is pleased to be back directing for PlayGround-LA’s year opener and wishes everyone a witchy New Year.

IVAN RIVAS (Undisputed), he/him, is a resident director at Downtown Repertory and has worked as a teaching artist at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Pasadena Playhouse.

PRODUCTION

JAY DUTCHER (Stage Manager)

JULIE LIPPERT-PASCO (Front of House)

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 12th annual Best of PlayGround Gala will take place on Monday, April 08, 2024, live at the Broadwater Theaters and simulcast via Vimeo Live. PFor 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 November 1, 2022 & November 20, 2023.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • Art Space Development Corporation • Avenue Greenlight • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • California Humanities • California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program • Creative Capacity Fund • Grants For The Arts • KFF • Koret Foundation • LA County Arts Commission • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • Rock Paper Scissors Landscape Inc. • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

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

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

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

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

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

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

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

PATRON ($250-$499)

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

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

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

To contribute to PlayGround, visit https://playground-la.org/contribute or contact PlayGround Associate Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org or by phone at (415) 992-6677.

PLAYGROUND-LA WRITERS POOL

Michael P. Adams+, Tamadhur Al-Aqeel, Damian Alejandro Arteaga, Esther Banegas Gatica+, Jaisey Bates, Evan Baughfman+, Emily Bauer Rogers+, Summer Broyhill, Allie Costa+, Joe Luis Cedillo, Sandra Cruze, Stacy Davies, Amy Ellenberger, Lauren Gorski+, Grant Gottschall, Shoshanna Green, Rachel Harner, Briggs Hatton+, Susan C. Hunter, M.J. Kang+, Michael B. Kaplan+, Mildred Inez Lewis+, Rhea MacCallum+, Scott Mullen+, Peter Pasco, Lina Patel, Margo Wade Rofé, Jessica June Rowe+, Cara Sanchez, Baylee Schlichtman, Mark Sherstinsky+, Ayesha Siddiqui+, Maria D. Smith, Adrian Thomas, Evelyn Wu-Coffey, Carolina Pilar Xique

+ Past Best of PlayGround playwright.

PLAYGROUND-LA COMPANY

Jahnavi Alyssa, Jerome Beck, Julia Belanova, Josef Bette, Sylvia Cervantes Blush, Summer Broyhill, Ben Cain, Hugo Carbajal, Jordan Carlson, Jordan Covington, Tom Dang, Frieda de Lackner, Hillary DeMartino, Carolyn Deskin, Rogelio Douglas III, Angel Dumapias, Eliza Frakes, Eric Geller, Danny Gomez, Cassie Grilley, Christian Haines, Julio Hanson, Matthew Henerson, Mark Jacobson, Alejandra Jaime, Alexia Jasmene, Kurt Kanazawa, Stephanie T. Keefer, Tony Kim, Emily Kuroda, Christopher Gary Lawson, Christine Liao, Lea Madda, Jackie Marriott, Gabi Mayorga, Paris McCarthy, Sherry Michaels, Krystal Mosley, Rachel Berney Needleman, Melissa Ortiz, Andrew Perez, Tansu Philip, Gary Poux, Tiana Randall-Quant, Maiya Reaves, Jesus Reyes, Ivan Rivas, Debba Rofheart, Tahmus Rounds, Mae Ruling, Collette Rutherford, Anthony Rutowicz, Richard Ruyle, Janet Song, Angela Sonner, William Warren, Charlotte Williams, Jonathan Wray

PRODUCTION & STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Paris McCarthy, Associate Artistic Director 
Christian Haines, Co-Executive Producer
Melissa Ortiz, Co-Executive Producer
Sylvia Blush, Associate Producer 
Tiana Randall-Quant, Associate Producer 
Abel Marquez, 2023-24 Directing Apprentice
Julie Lippert-Pasco, 2023-24 Producing Fellow
Sofia Dutcher, Stage Manager

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