PlayGround-LA presents Season 12

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

“FLASHBACK: 1994”
February 12th, 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 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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Alignment
by Briggs Hatton
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Kelly……………..…Summer Broyhill
Derrick…………...Anthony Rutowicz
Sun………………………Alexia Jasmene
Moon……………………………Gary Poux

The Chase
by Margo Rofé
Directed by Paris Crayton III
Tony Battle………..Christopher Lawson
Marina…………………..Scarlett Redmond

Welcome to Paradise
by Rachel Harner
Directed by David Le
Bex……………..Eliza Frakes
Davy/Cult Follower 1……..Josef Bette
Supreme Mother/Cult Follower 2……Carolyn Deskin
9969/Cult Follower 3……………..Tiana Randall-Quant

Surviving Northridge
by Rhea MacCallum
Directed by Mark Anthony Vallejo
Jayson………..Andrew Joseph Perez
Marta…………………………Janet Song

Climbing Through Windows
by Emily Brauer Rodgers
Directed by Rachel Berney Needleman
Bette……………………Jordan Carlson
Helen…………….……Brianna Barrett
Regan………………….Isabel Siragusa
Future Bette………Stephanie Keefer

Reefer Girl
by Damian Arteaga
Directed by Cybelle Kaehler
Rebecca………………….Natasha Galano
Kylie….…………………….Isabel Siragusa
Jamie……………………………Peter Pasco
Sandra…………………..Alejandra Jaime

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

DAMIEN ARTEAGA (Reefer Girl), he/him, is an accomplished playwright, actor, and director in Southern California. He recently graduated from Cal State Fullerton with his B.A. in theater with an emphasis in Playwriting, and a minor in Chicana/o Studies. His plays have seen staged readings at CSUF’s One Act Play Festival, including (S.D.H.I.F.L) and (Izzy). He has also participated in The Larking House Playwright Intensive to put on a staged reading of (The Hole). He hopes to inspire the next generation of playwrights and push the theater medium.

EMILY BRAUER RODGERS (Climbing Through Windows), she/her, writes about humorous kickass women in mythology, history, and science fiction. She received her MFA from USC. She optioned Romeo, Juliet, and Rosaline to Amazon Studios, and her plays Bringing Iraq Home, Bloomer Girls, and an adaptation of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” have been produced by various theatres. Her TV pilot of Bloomer Girls was read by the New Works Theatre Festival as a fundraiser for the Actors Fund. She participated in HBMG Foundation’s and The Orchard Project’s residencies. She’s published in 161 Monologues from Literature and Kids Comedic Monologues that are Actually Funny. For more visit www.emilybrauerrogers.com.

RACHEL HARNER (Welcome to Paradise), she/her, is a screenwriter, playwright, and creative executive at Spycraft Entertainment. She has several TV series and features in development across a variety of genres, including a feature rom-com set on a cruise ship. Rachel is a producer on the iHeart podcast “Mission Implausible” and an assistant producer on the Freevee YA series CLASSIFIED. Rachel is the co-director of the Harvardwood Writers Program and a contributing playwright for ShotzLA. When she isn’t writing, Rachel loves to cook comfort food, shoot archery, and play a mountain dwarf pirate captain in Dungeons & Dragons.

BRIGGS HATTON (Alignment), he/him, is an L.A. playwright, screenwriter, and copywriter. He’s been a proud member of the PlayGround-LA Writers Pool for four seasons and received Best of PlayGround in 2022. Three of his short plays were recently commissioned by NY’s Atlantic Theater School. In TV, he worked for two seasons on the TBS comedic game show “The Misery Index,” and worked for four seasons on the NBC sitcom “Community.” He’s performed at U.C.B. LA, Second City Chicago, and IO Chicago. He holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a degree in Theater and Creative Writing from Northwestern University.

RHEA MACCALLUM (Surviving Northridge), she/her, is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and script consultant, whose plays have been produced across the United States and six continents. She was honored to participate in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and was named a finalist by the Actors Theatre of Louisville for the Heideman Award for her play, YESTERDAY ONCE MORE. Her work has been published by Smith & Kraus, Heuer, Original Works, and Pioneer Drama. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ICWP, ALAP, Greenhouse Ensemble’s Writer’s Group, and Playground-LA’s Writer’s Pool. BA: USC; MFA in Playwriting: Actors Studio Drama School, New School University. rheamaccallum.com.

MARGO ROFÉ (The Chase), she/her/ella, is a retired lawyer/playwright who resides in Southern California. Margo’s works have been showcased and/or workshopped by the University of Nebraska Omaha as part of its BIPOC Festival; The Pulp Stage Theatre in Portland, OR; Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble; The Robey Theater; and the Alliance of LA Playwrights. Her monologue “Caplata” was published in the anthology “The Covid Monologues”. Her play “Venn Diagram” reached the semi-finalist round of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s National Fellowship competition. Margo served as a committee member for the 43rd NAACP Image Awards’ Literary Sub-committee in the category of Poetry Literature.

ACTORS

BRIANNA BARRETT (Climbing Through Windows, “Helen”), she/her, is an LA-based performer/director who loves to tell female-driven stories that explore the strength of human connection. Raised on LI bagels and pizza, she graduated from Rollins College in Florida with a BA in theatre performance. She recently wrote and directed the short film Tandem. But more importantly, she loves her family, friends, and a good conversation over tea.

JOSEF BETTE (Welcome to Paradise, “Davy/Cult Follower 1”), he/him, is originally from Chicago, IL, LA transplant since 2011. He is 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 (Alignment, “Kelly”), 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, a New York Times Critics’ Pick), 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 member of the Playground-LA Writers Pool. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.

JORDAN CARLSON (Climbing Through Windows, “Bette”), she/her, originally from Ohio, is happy to be a part of another Monday Night Playground. She just wrapped production on two short films and will be shooting another in March. If she had to pick a 1994 favorite, it would be Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye.

CAROLYN DESKIN (Welcome to Paradise, “Supreme Mother/Cult Follower 2”) she/her, has just completed the Shakespeare Summer course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. You can also catch her the second Wednesday of every month with her sketch team, Paperback, at the Pack Theater (also in this theater).

ELIZA FRAKES (Welcome to Paradise, “Bex”), 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 (Reefer Girl, “Rebecca”), 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 standout performance in “KNOX GOES AWAY,” expertly guided by Michael Keaton. A graduate of the esteemed North Carolina School of the Arts, Natasha is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, represented by Limitless Management and Daniel Hoff Agency Inc. Beyond her craft, Natasha finds joy in salsa dancing, has a deep appreciation for 90’s action films, and passionately supports cancer outreach as a two-time survivor.

ALEJANDRA JAMIE (Reefer Girl, “Sandra”) she/her, Alejandra Jaime is glad to be back for another round of Playground! Recent tv/film credits include; Echo (Disney +), The Mosquito Coast (Apple TV), Latasha Harlins (Visual Aptitude). Theatre Credits; (Will Greer Shakespeare Rep.) “Hippolyta”-A Midsummer Nights Dream, (Hollywood Fringe) “Medvedenko”-The Seagull. For rep inquiries: Insta: @Alejandra_Jay_. IMDb: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm12485612/

ALEXIA JASMENE (Alignment, “Sun”), 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 (Climbing Through Windows, “Future Bette”), 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.

CHRISTOPHER LAWSON (The Chase, “Tony Battle”)

PETER PASCO (Reefer Girl, “Jamie”), he/El, made it to the Broadway stage last year, and he was promptly escorted off by security. Apparently, it isn’t acceptable to take a selfie onstage before a show. Who knew? So what he breaks rules! That’s what he learned growing up in the Bronx. Earlier this year he was in the world premiere of “That must be the entrance to heaven” over at Urbanite Theatre in Florida. You can also find him at street corners begging for change to pay his SAG/AEA dues.  

ANDREW JOSEPH PEREZ (Surviving Northridge, “Jayson”), he/they/she/all pronouns, is an actor / singer / audiobook narrator / fight choreographer / Jack-of-All-Trades spending his free time finding parking in K-Town. You can find his audiobooks on most platforms under his own name and – for our fans of spicy fiction – under the name Julio Maxwell. Many of his antics can be found on Instagram and TikTok @andrewjosephperez.

GARY POUX (Alignment, “Moon”), he/him, is as always, glad to share the stage with his PlayGround-LA fam.

TIANA RANDALL-QUANT (Welcome to Paradise, “9969/Cult Follower 3”), she/they, is an actor, facilitator, educator, and one of three newly appointed Artistic Directors to Ammunition Theatre. She has been a part of Playground LA since 2018 and made her Playground SF debut in 2023 for the Playground Festival premiere of “Starlight”. She is grateful for this creative home to play with other artists.

SCARLETT REDMOND (The Chase, “Marina”), 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.

ANTHONY RUTOWICZ (Alignment, “Derrick”), he/him, digs working on the freshest material and it don’t get any fresher than a Monday night Playground. He has been acting and storytelling for what seems like decades now. Time no longer matters. There is only now.

ISABEL SIRAGUSA (Reefer Girl, “Kylie”), 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

JANET SONG (Surviving Northridge, “Marta”), she/her, is the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards from Audiofile Magazine. Select theatre credits include Kim’s Convenience (Laguna Playhouse), Rent, Urinetown (Coeurage Theatre), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Fountain Theatre), and Tea, with Music (East West Players). Janet has also worked with Rogue Machine, Lodestone, Boston Court, and the Celebration, among others. For TV and Film credits: janetsong.com: IG: @janetsongla

DIRECTORS

RACHEL BERNEY NEEDLEMAN (Climbing Through Windows)

PARIS CRAYTON III (The Chase), 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.

CYBELLE KAEHLER (Reefer Girl), she/her, is a film and theatre director who strives to tell meaningful queer and female-focused stories. She has worked at New Swan Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, and Playground-LA, and recently directed and produced the new play “Restoration” at Hollywood Fringe. She graduated from UC Irvine with degrees in Drama and Film, where she was co-president of Brick Theatre Company, a student collective focused on LGBTQ+ works. Her latest short film, Tombé, won Best Student Film at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood and at LA Sun Film Fest. She is currently a production assistant on A Christmas Carol, running this December at South Coast Repertory! cybellekaehler.com insta: @cybellerose

JIM KLEINMANN (Alignment), 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.

DAVID LE (Welcome to Paradise), he/him, is a director based in Seattle and Los Angeles. He graduated with a BA in Theater, much to his parents’ dismay. Cultural identity, family, and the sense of belonging 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, but also celebrate the culture and ideas that they are the culmination of. He has previously worked with Yun Theatre, REBATEnsemble, and Pork Filled Productions – the latter of which he is currently a producer for.

MARK ANTHONY VALLEJO (Surviving Northridge), he/him, is a director, stage combatant, and educator. Selected credits include: Faith (Latino Theatre Center in collaboration with East Los Angeles College, AD) La Comedia of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, AD and choreographer), La Victima (Latino Theatre Center @ The Los Angeles Theatre Center, Co-director), Mr. Popper’s Penguins (musical version @ South Coast Repertory Theatre, AD) and George Bizet Carmen (Music On Site, AD). He was born and raised in East Los Angeles. Honored to be runner-up for the Metropolitan Opera Directing Fellowship this year. Mark Anthony is honored to be sharing his work and collaborating with fine artists. He is currently working on Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz and Colossal by Andrew Hinderaker. (Insta- @markanthonydrama)

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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