PlayGround-LA presents Season 13

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

“Holiday Surprise”
December 9th, 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.

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

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!

To learn more about the Monday Night PlayGround membership program, click here.

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Ho, Ho, Oh, No!
by Tim Bryant
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Bob……….Jon Gentry
Eve….Isabel Siragusa
Gus………..Josef Bette

Creating A Winter Wonderland
by Cara Sanchez
Directed by Rachael Berney Needleman
Ruth………………...Summer Broyhill
Helen……………………………..Jo Yuan
Mrs. Richards…..Kathy Bell Denton

Little Brother Eldest Son
by Evelyn Wu-Coffey
Directed by David Le
Big Sister…………Grace Su
Little Brother…..Todd Lien

Special Peppermint
by Evan Baughfman
Directed by Angela Sonner
Kriss………Jordan Carlson
Holly…..Shoshanna Green
Felicia…Stephanie Keefer

The Last Surprise
by Esther Banegas Gatica
Directed by Abel Marquez
Elena….Stella Ramirez
George………Gary Poux
Emilia….Natasha Galano

Glue
by Summer Broyhill
Directed by Frieda de Lackner
Sheila………………..Nemma Adeni
Frank…………………….Jon Gentry
Noel…………………..Emily Kuroda
Nurse Johnson…Alexia Jasmene

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

ESTHER BANEGAS GATICA (The Last Surprise), she/her, is a Honduran bilingual writer, playwright, actress, director and translator. She’s a graduate of Teatro Prometeo from Miami Dade College. She’s also 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 part of the Playground LA writers pool and part of the Black Voice News team. Follow her work on IG @esteyg

EVAN BAUGHFMAN (Special Peppermint), he/him, is a playwriting member of PlayGround-L.A. and is also a company member with Force of Nature Productions in Burbank. His plays are published with Heuer Publishing, YouthPLAYS, Next Stage Press, and Drama Notebook. Evan also writes horror fiction. His books include: The Emaciated Man, Vanishing of the 7th Grade, Bad for Your Teeth, and Try Not to Die in a Dark Fairy Tale. More info available at amazon.com/author/evanbaughfman

SUMMER BROYHILL (Glue), 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 San Francisco Solo Play Festival in 2022. MFA: Old Globe/ University of San Diego Graduate Acting Program. She is a proud third-year member of the Playground-LA Writers Pool. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.

TIM BRYANT (Ho, Ho, Oh, No!), he/him, earned his MFA in Theater at Southern Illinois University, where he was briefly a staff writer for The Jo Jo and Joyce Club on WSIU-TV. His plays have been produced in San Francisco, Memphis, and St. Louis. In 2023, his comedy Hot Beef was one of six finalists in Playhouse on the Square’s NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Contest. In July his musical for young audiences, LuLu Lucy—written with composer John Gerdes—was presented in a series of staged readings complete with jazz orchestra at Greenfinch Theater and Dive in St. Louis.

CARA SANCHEZ (Creating a Winter Wonderland), she/her, is thrilled to be part of another season with Playground-LA! Her plays, The Beauty Who Created The Beast, Body, Soul, Heart, and Witches, have been performed at the Monday Night Playground performances. Body, Soul, Heart was a finalist for Playground-LA’s Best of Playground ’24. Recently, she participated in the Embark playwriting program with The Wayward Artist and OCPA, which culminated in a staged reading of The Life and Undeath of Lucy Westenra. She also had a workshop reading of her play, The Dybbuk: A Reimagining, through The Larking House Theatre’s Playwright’s Intensive last year.

EVELYN WU-COFFEY (Little Brother Eldest Son), they/she, is a Los Angeles and Taipei-based playwright, actor, and musician. Their works for the stage include Ground, Guest Slippers, and Push Pull. Her plays have been produced by Taipei Shorts, Playground LA, and Shakespeare Company at UCLA. MEMBER: Playground-LA Writers Pool. EDUCATION: UCLA – B.M. in Bassoon Performance, Theater Minor. Instagram: @evelynhueienwucoffey.

ACTORS

NEMMA ADENI (Glue, “Sheila”), she/her, is an actor and writer of mixed Yemeni and Indian origin, based in LA. Her superpowers include a knack for dialect and language (she speaks Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Gujurati, and conversational French, Mandarin and Spanish) and genre-fluid improv. Her versatile style has led to both dramatic and comedic credits in film and theater. Most recently, her work with Golden Thread Theater’s ReOrient Festival of one act plays appeared on the KQED list for Best Bay Area Theater in 2023. Since then, she has starred in several short films, including “Witness”, a bilingual Urdu-English short supported by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Princeton University, so she can portray computer hackers pretty accurately (in case you were wondering).

JOSEF BETTE (Ho, Ho, Oh, No!, “Gus”), is originally from Chicago, IL, LA transplant since 2011. He has been happy to be part of the PlayGround LA community since 2019 and his film credits include Chasing the Blues and Parked on Amazon Prime.

SUMMER BROYHILL (Creating a Winter Wonderland, “Ruth”), 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 San Francisco Solo Play Festival in 2022. MFA: Old Globe/ University of San Diego Graduate Acting Program. She is a proud third-year member of the Playground-LA Writers Pool. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.

JORDAN CARLSON (Special Peppermint, “Kriss”), she/her, is an actress based in Los Angeles and a longtime company member of Playground-LA. She is thrilled to be a part of the holiday round for Monday Night. Being part of a community that brings fresh, original works to life is one of her favorite things about Playground-LA. She loves collaborating with fellow artists and sharing stories that spark connection and creativity.

KATHY BELL DENTON (Creating a Winter Wonderland, “Mrs. Richards”), she/her, is a member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA.
Favorite roles: Bananas House of Blue Leaves at Sierra Rep, Virginia The Clean House at ICT, and Mrs. Winemiller Eccentricities of a Nightingale with Collaborative Artists. Active in the development of new plays and musicals , she has worked with PlayGround LA, The Word and on Velina Hasu Houston’s Hum the Bee at The Road. Regional work includes The Old Globe, Sierra Rep and five seasons with Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara. She is an audiobook narrator, who recently won an Earphones Award. Check out her work at: https://www.kathybelldenton.com/

NATASHA GALANO (The Last Surprise, “Emilia”), she/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 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.

JON GENTRY (Glue, “Frank,” and Ho, Ho, Oh, No!, “Bob”),  he/him, was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He holds an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater and received his BA in English from Harvard. He currently teaches the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique at the Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory. Regional theater credits include roles in Pipeline, Masao & The Bronze Nightingale, and Romeo and Juliet. On screen, he appeared in TEN, Behold a Lady, Meeting Matt Damon and voiced Preston Garvey in Fallout 4, gaining viral fame. His multiple award-winning solo show, Black Bastard, returns to San Francisco and Los Angeles in January-March. Website: theejongentry.com

SHOSHANNA GREEN (Special Peppermint, “Holly”), she/her, is an actor from Philadelphia, by way of New Zealand, by way of Pittsburgh. She adores Shakespeare, immersive theater and laughter. Shoshanna just finished an incredible run of shows at Theatricum Botanicum where Broadway World called her “wildly comic and entertaining.” When she’s not on stage you can find her writing comedy for her sketch group Corduroy at The Pack Theater. More info at www.shoshannaruthgreen.com

ALEXIA JASMENE (Glue, “Nurse Johnson”), she/her, is a queer trans actor/musician/comedian/poet who believes in the power of stories to open the hardest minds and soften the hardest hearts. You can hear her voice as Valeria in the English dub of Veneno on Max, formerly HBOMax, or you may have seen her perform her self-written role of Dawn Langley Simmons in both renditions of Tales of the Trancestors. She’s worked in several theaters in Chicago, and today can be found working in Los Angeles on her queer western passion project, performing stand-up or performing her music or poems. Whichever medium she uses, Alexia hopes her work as a storyteller brings joy and healing to those it resonates with, wherever they may be in their journey.

STEPHANIE KEEFER (Special Peppermint, “Felicia”), she/her, 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.

EMILY KURODA (Glue, “Noel”), she/her, worked at Actors Theater of Louisville with Damaso Rodriguez (we, the invisibles), Theatreworks (Tiger Style, Language Archives, Calligraphy), Seattle Rep (Ballad of Yachiyo) New York Theatre Workshop (Endlings), Pan Asian (Brothers Paranormal), American Repertory Theater (Endlings), Page 73 (Toda is My Birthday), Huntington Theater (Tiger Style, Woman Warrior), Artists at Play (Two Mile Hollow), South Coast Rep (Tiger Style, Fast Company, Ballad of Yachiyo and Our Town), Alliance (Tiger Style), East West Players, Kirk Douglas, Mark Taper Forum, Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Singapore Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, The Doolittle, LATC, Zephyr, LA Women’s Shakespeare Company, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. Recent TV: All Rise. The Good Doctor, The Resident, Drop Dead Diva, Gilmore Girls. Recent Films: Kimi for HBO, Take the 10, Party Boat, Red and Sensei, Adopting Audrey with Jena Malone and the upcoming Flowervale Street with Ann Hathaway. Awards: – Dramalogue Ikebana, The Maids, Minamata, The Golden Gate, and Visitors from Nagasaki – LA Commendation (About Love) – Garland Straight As a Line. Entertainment Today (Winter People).

TODD LIEN (Little Brother, Eldest Son, “Little Brother”), he/him, is an actor/director from Taiwan, and he moved to Los Angeles in 2014 to pursue his MFA degree in Acting for Film from New York Film Academy. He appeared in numerous theater productions including Love Boat (2016), Song of the Fall (2017), Happy Father’s Day Musical (2018), and Love List (2022). His film credits include Straight A (2016), After Sunset, Dawn Arrives (2022), EKG (2023), The Choice (2017), the feature film The Rescue (2020) and iBOT (2018) on IQIYI, and the TV miniseries Bob’s New Roommates (2017), Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem (2022), Open To It (2023).

GARY POUX (The Last Surprise, “George”), he/him, as always, is thrilled to share the stage with his PlayGround-LA fam.

STELLA RAMIREZ (The Last Surprise, “Elena”), she/her, is excited to make her debut with PlayGround-LA. She most recently played Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Theatricum Botanicum and Tania in Native Gardens at Ophelia’s Jump.

ISABEL SIRAGUSA (Ho, Ho, Oh, No!, “Eve”), 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

GRACE SU (Little Brother, Eldest Son, “Big Sister”), she/her, “Grace has courage, imagination, and a wicked sense of humor.” – John Patrick Shanley | Born in Knoxville, TN and raised in Silicon Valley, Grace Su is a Taiwanese American actress working bicoastally between Los Angeles and New York. She has worked with the likes of Al Pacino, Jim Carrey, Lady Gaga, and John Patrick Shanley to name a few. Check her out in the award-winning independent films STAYCATION and HIDE BEHIND or as ADA Pepper Levine on FRASIER. www.gracesu.com

JO YUAN (Creating a Winter Wonderland, “Helen”), she/they, Jo Yuan 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

RACHAEL BERNEY NEEDLEMAN (Creating a Winter Wonderland), she/her, a director and dramaturg for new plays and classical work, is a proud member of Playground, where she has directed many brilliant pieces over the last several years. As a director: Mira and the Whale at (Dev/LAb for EST/LA), Whitesville and other audio plays for Open Door Playhouse, What We’re Up Against, Five Second Chances (PRT Co-op), Cabaret Noel with Gigi Bermingham, Cowgirls (EST-LA), The Space Between (The Braid), 4 Minutes (MeetCute LA), and new play readings and workshops for companies across Los Angeles. Dramaturg credits include Arizona Theatre Company and Antaeus. Rachel is a co-author of the LA Anti-Racist Theatre Standards.

ANGELA SONNER (Special Peppermint),

DAVID LE (Little Brother, Eldest Son), he/him, is a Vietnamese American theatre director, filmmaker, and producer based in Seattle and Los Angeles. Cultural identity, family, and the desire to belong are often focal points in his work. He finds nothing more enjoyable than telling stories that speak to the current moment in some way – that challenge people’s beliefs about who they are as a person, but also celebrate the culture and ideas that they are the culmination of. He has previously worked with Yun Theatre, Microsoft, Playground-LA, Theatre Battery, REBATEnsemble, UW Undergraduate Theatre Society, and Pork Filled Productions – the latter of which he is currently a
producer for.

ABEL MARQUEZ (The Last Surprise), 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 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 (Ho, Ho, Oh, No!), he/him, is a proud company member of PlayGround LA, Rogue Machine Theatre, and Downtown Rep/Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival.

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.

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 December 1, 2023 & December 6, 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+)

Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Paul Haahr, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, 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 (415) 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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