PlayGround-LA presents Season 11

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

PLANET EARTH ARTS NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
“GRIEF AND HOPE FOR PLANET EARTH”
March 13th, 2023 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.

Hope with Feathers
by Emily Brauer Rogers
Directed by Paris McCarthy
Ava……………………….…Tansu Philip
Casey…………………….……Janet Song

Still in the Ring
by Esther Banegas Gatica
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Amelia…………………Alejandra Jaime
Elizabeth….……………….Melissa Ortiz

Play Dead
by Evan Baughfman
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Oakley………………..Summer Broyhill
Kendall……………..…Tahmus Rounds

Of Words and Water
by Jaisey Bates
Directed by David H. Parker
Earthling……………….…Gabi Mayorga
Earthsong 1…………………….Tony Kim
Earthsong 2….Andrew Joseph Perez

Louisiana Shoal
by Mildred Inez Lewis
Directed by Julianna Stephanie Ojeda
 Earlene………………..….Maiya Reaves
Livia……………………….Christine Liao

Desert Fashion Dreamers
by Ayesha Siddiqui
Directed by Sylvia Cervantes Blush
Ray……………….…..Christian Haines
Polly……………………..Krystal Mosley
Kashmere…………...Alexia Jasmene

Stage Manager – Tammy Mora

House Manager – Susan C. Hunter

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

ESTHER BANEGAS GATICA (Still in the Ring), she/her, is Honduran and proud; She’s a graduate from Teatro Prometeo’s Conservatory at Miami Dade College.Then received her BFA from Oral Roberts University, in Oklahoma. She translates plays from English to Spanish and vice versa. She’s taught Rasaboxes Jr. for Syracuse Stage in NY and directed for Fort Worth Fringe Festival. Her writing is bilingual and seeks to explore the liminal identities of women and immigrants through a comedic angle. As a playwright and dramaturg, she’s written/directed several of her own one-act plays. She premiered her play “Latinext” at the New Play Festival at the University of California, Riverside. She was part of Limearts Unfinished where she developed “Una Cita en él Salon”. Esther recently obtained her MFA in Playwriting at the University of California, Riverside- where she’s collaborated with Latinx Play Project and Gluck Foundation.

JAISEY BATES (Of Words and Water) they/she/jaisey/any, is a neurodivergent poet performer playwright singular plurality. Awards include Marin Theatre Company’s Emerging American Playwright Prize. Festival selections include Bay Area Playwrights, Clamour, Cutting Ball, Native Voices at the Autry, OKC Theater Company and Vagrancy. Finalist recognitions include the Princess Grace Playwriting and American BluesTheater’s Blue Ink awards and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Websites include NPX and the-peoplehood.com.

EVAN BAUGHFMAN (Play Dead), he/him, Evan Baughfman is a Southern California author and playwright. A number of Evan’s play scripts are published through Heuer Publishing, YouthPLAYS, Next Stage Press, and Drama Notebook. Evan is a company member with Force of Nature Productions. Evan has also found success writing horror fiction, his work found recently in anthologies by No Bad Books Press, Improbable Press, and Grinning Skull Press. D&T Publishing will release his first full-length novel, Bad for Your Teeth, in April 2023. More info is available at amazon.com/author/evanbaughfman

EMILY BRAUER ROGERS (Hope with Feathers), 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

MILDRED INEZ LEWIS (Louisiana Shoal), she/her, writes and directs for stage and screen. She is currently in a winter intensive with her play/kom’plisit/ at the Workshop Theatre (NYC) and looking forward to upcoming projects with Noise Now at A Noise Within (Glendale) and Central Works (Berkeley).

AYESHA SIDDIQUI (Desert Fashion Dreamers), she/her, is a playwright of Pakistani-American descent. Works include: Water Lily (Sundance Institute Playwriting Intensive, 2019) and Baba, Jee (Father, Yes)(Hollywood Fringe Scholarship Winner, 2018). Her newest play, Jaldee/Hurry, is in development with The Vagrancy 2020-21 Writers’ Group.

ACTORS

SUMMER BROYHILL (Play Dead, “Oakley”), she/her, is an actor, dancer, choreographer, director, musician, singer, improviser, 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 February. MFA: Old Globe/ University of San Diego Graduate Acting Program. She is a proud member of the Playground-LA 2022-2023 Writers Pool. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.

CHRISTIAN HAINES (Desert Fashion Dreamers, “Ray”), he/him, loves Playground! Past PGSF shows include Sapience, Anna Considers Mars, Value Over Replacement and tons of Monday Nights. Other credits include Straight White Men (MTC) Reginald and Ruckus, The Moonrisers (Moonrisers), Operation Ajax (Little Fish ), Jihad Jones (Perspective) Death of a Salesman, This is Our Youth (ATSF) and a bunch more. Currently he is doing a bunch of student films, studying with UCB and trying to figure out LA. He holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory and loves his wife, Melissa Ortiz. https://amiosco.wixsite.com/christianhaines

ALEJANDRA JAIME (Still in the Ring, “Amelia”), she/her, is a Los Angeles Based SAG actress. Film/tv: Latasha Harlins 2023 (Natalia), “The Mosquito Coast” season 2 (Apple TV/voice over), Goon (Pilot/Boston). “Period”(short/Jessi) Theatre: “Mirabella” California Inst. of the Arts (Fina), “Bobbie Clearly“ California Inst. of the Arts (Russ Scott), “Taming of the Shrew” (Katherine) California Inst. of the Arts. Insta: @Alejandra_jay_
For talent inquiries contact: Alejandra.Daniela.jaime@gmail.com
www.alejandrajaime.com
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm12485612/

ALEXIA JASMENE (Desert Fashion Dreamers, “Kashmere”), she/her, is an LA based Trans Actor/Musician/Comedian/Poet (Wouldn’t you know it?) who is classically trained with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA and had a robust theatre career in Chicago. She worked with companies such as American Theatre Company as Millie in “Picnic”, About Face Theatre as Sandra in a staged reading of “Transcripts”, The New Coordinates as Eleanor in “Kinfolk”, Side Show Theatre as Nastasia in a staged reading of “Pro Am”, and even in the world premiere of “Naming True” as Amy at Urbanite Theatre in Sarasota, FL. This is her second time playing two roles in Playground theatre’s playwright showcase and third time at The Broadwater after performing a staged reading of excerpts of Natalie Nicole Dressel’s plays “There Is Evil In This House” and “Granny-A Memory Play” for Ghosts and Memories. She’s excited to touch back to her roots as she is pursuing TV, Film, and Voice Acting as a new transplant to LA hoping to open hearts and change minds playing courageously vulnerable women.

TONY KIM (Of Words and Water, “Earthsong 1”), he/him, Actor, Improvisor, Scholar, Warrior, Friend. Tony Kim is excited and grateful to kick off 2023 with you.

CHRISTINE LIAO (Louisiana Shoal, “Livia”), she/her, is a Los Angeles based actor. Her best known role thus far is as the restaurant cashier in the comedy sketch, The ABC Who Can’t Read Chinese. You can also find her in Fine China on HBO platforms and the video game Life is Strange: True Colors. When she’s not acting, you might find her at an indoor rock climbing gym, a boba shop, or perched on a tree or rock in the great outdoors.

GABI MAYORGA (Of Words and Water, “Earthling”), 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.

KRYSTAL MOSLEY (Desert Fashion Dreamers, “Polly”), 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!

MELISSA ORTIZ (Still in the Ring, “Elizabeth”), she/her, recently relocated to Los Angeles from the SF Bay Area. She is the Producing Artistic Director for ShotzLA. Favorite roles include: Ariel in Shoot Me When… (SF Playhouse), Gemma in F L I G H T (PlayGround Solo Fest), Regan in King Lear (SF Shakes), Anna in Anna Considers Mars(PlayGround), and Lizzy in The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Marin Theatre Company). She is a PlayGround-LA Company Member. Melissa received her MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory. She loves her family and insanely talented husband.

ANDREW JOSEPH PEREZ (Of Words and Water, “Earthsong 2”), he/him, Unlicensed Fool, can be found on Tiktok, Instagram, and Patreon @andrewjosephperez, on Twitter and Facebook @andrewjperez, wherever you find your audiobooks as himself and Julio Maxwell, outside unsupervised possibly with a camera or bullwhip, on your TV as “Pool Dad, Otezla,” and growing a moustache so hard it helps fight cancer.

TANSU PHILIP (Hope with Feathers, “Ava”), she/her, is an Indian-American actress from Redlands, CA. A third culture kid, Tansu has been influenced by her time spent in India, Kuwait, England, Czechia, and the US and has reflected it in her work and acting style. A big fan of comedy, Tansu performed her first one woman show PARATHA in January 2023 in Playground SF’s solo festival. When not acting, Tansu runs a boba shop she co-founded with her boyfriend David, Viva La Boba.

MAIYA REAVES (Louisiana Shoal, “Earlene”), she/her, is an LA based actress working to join the SAG-AFTRA and continue her work on independent features. Maiya recently performed the role of Margaret Alexander in Seattle’s first ever professional production of The Amen Corner written by James Baldwin. She is so excited to be back The Playground performing for you tonight!

TAHMUS ROUNDS (Play Dead, “Kendall”), he/him, Tahmus 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, 911Lonestar, and most recently Upload. Tahmus is proud and excited to be in this 11th season of PlaygroundLA!

JANET SONG (Hope with Feathers, “Casey”), she/her, is the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards from Audiofile Magazine. Select theatre credits include: Kim’s Convenience (Laguna Playhouse), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Fountain Theatre), Urinetown (Coeurage Theatre), and Tea, With Music (East West Players). Janet has also worked with Rogue Machine, Lodestone, Boston Court, and the Celebration, among others. TV and Film roles include: The Bling Ring, Kings, Palo Alto, The Good Place, Modern Family, Euphoria, Little Fires Everywhere. IG: @janetsongla

DIRECTORS

SYLVIA CERVANTES BLUSH (Desert Fashion Dreamers; Associate Producer), ella/she/her, was a finalist for the SDCF 2022 Denham Fellowship. Recently a short film she edited and played a supporting role was a Finalist and won Best Narrative for Lift-Off Global Network First-Time Filmmakers Showcase and the Eau Claire Film Festival respectively.

JIM KLEINMANN (Play Dead; 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-four 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 (Hope with Feathers; Associate Artistic Director), she/her, is thrilled to be back directing for another Planet Earth Arts Night.

JULIANNA STEPHANIE OJEDA (Louisiana Shoal), she/her, is a Latina director, producer and actor. She is an alumnus of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival FAIR Program. Select acting credits include: Company of Angels’ Tomorrow LAnd and Angels Project Solidarity is a Four Letter Word, the Garry Marshall Theatre production of Real Women Have Curves, Center Theatre Group’s: Chisme y Queso, OSF’s Latinx New Play Project: The Refugee Hotel, San Diego Rep’s Latinx New Play Festival: Fabulous Monsters. Select directing credits include: ENEMY|FLINT by Diana Burbano at the Wray Theatre, CICADAS by Carol Mullen at Celebration Theatre, and Contra La Corriente by Wind Woods at the Robert Cohen Theatre.

DAVID H. PARKER (Of Words and Water; Directing Apprentice), they/them, is a multi-hyphenate director from Birmingham, AL pursuing their MFA in Directing at UCLA. Most recently: PATIENCE (Second Stage Off-Broadway), TEXAS FOR FOUR MORE YEARS (East West Players), I’M HERE NOW (Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy). Intersectionality informs the base of their work, but the intersection of Blackness and Queerness will always be at the top of their priorities. Unfortunately, being a Type-A Virgo is a full time job, so they need a lot of naps.

IVAN RIVAS (Still in the Ring), is a company member at PlayGround L.A. and Rogue Machine Theatre. He is Resident Director at Downtown Repertory/Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival. A proud alum of the USC school of Dramatic Arts and Director’s Lab West.

PRODUCTION

TAMMY MORA (Stage Manager).

SUSAN C. HUNTER (Front of House), she/her, has been associated with PlayGround-LA since its first season, usually as a member of the writers’ pool. Tonight she serves as House Manager.

MICHAEL FRIED (Planet Earth Arts Co-Founder & Artistic Director) has worked for more than 40 years as a director, producer, arts educator and transformational non-profit leader in theater, the arts, film/media, education and as a social justice activist. Michael was a founding member and spent thirteen years as the Producing Director of New York’s acclaimed Roundabout Theatre Company. His production of Athol Fugard’s The Blood Knot launched Danny Glover’s powerful career and his production of John Osborne’s Look Back In Anger, with Malcolm McDowell, inaugurated the Showtime on Broadway cable TV series. While building this premier arts institution he produced more than 100 major productions and worked with playwrights Samuel Beckett, Athol Fugard, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, John Osborne and Tennessee Williams. Michael also produced the Dance Umbrella at the Roundabout. In 1990 Michael Fried founded Public Interest TV Films. He has produced numerous documentaries on a wide array of subjects and he has served as the Executive Producer for several nationally broadcast PBS films. In 2001, with the support of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, Michael started a pioneering mentoring and training program for gifted ‘disabled’ students and individuals who dreamt of working in film and media. He was the co-founder of California’s first Disability Media Center recognized by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

PLANET EARTH ARTS was founded in 2014 out of our conviction that environmental and racial/social justice are the most urgent issues of our time, and our belief that the arts, in collaboration with the sciences and humanities, must play a leading role in transforming the human presence on our planet from a destructive role to one that is mutually beneficial to the entire community of life. We collaborate with actors, playwrights, directors, photographers, choreographers, dancers, musicians, writers and visual artists. Planet Earth Arts supports them by commissioning, presenting and showcasing their powerful transformative work – confronting and illuminating climate change, mass extinctions, threats to oceans, habitat loss, sea rise and the struggles for environmental justice. That same year we launched the Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival at Berkeley Rep and at Stanford University, in collaboration with PlayGround and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford, to inspire playwrights to create bold new works for the stage that explore issues of planetary sustainability as well as environmental and social justice. For the past nine years Planet Earth Arts has worked with more than 75 playwrights from PlayGround’s Writers Pool in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. The Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival has generated a living library of more than 200 short plays. PlayGround and Planet Earth Arts have co-commissioned 12 new original full-length or one-act plays – several of which have had World Premiere Productions in San Francisco at Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays. Each year at least one or two Planet Earth Arts plays have been included in the Best of PlayGround. We are thrilled to resume collaborating with PlayGround on the 2023 Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival and look forward to supporting the new visions and voices of the Chicago and New York Writer Pools.

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 Gala. The 11th annual Best of PlayGround Gala will take place on Monday, April 10, 2022, 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, gifts of $125 or more committed between January 1, 2022 & January 9, 2023.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • Art Space Development Corporation • 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 • First Republic Bank • The Fleishhacker Foundation • Grants For The Arts • Koret Foundation • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Zellerbach Family Foundation

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

William Bivins, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Jerome Joseph Gentes & Michael Bourque, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Peggy Haas, David Steele

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500–$4,999)

Meriko Borogove, John H. Gilman, Regina S. Guggenheim, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Linda Kremer, Rebecca Martinez, Nitin, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Anonymous (6)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Ruth & Robert Brayton, Thomas Patrick Broyhill, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Kelly & Carlos Delgado, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna Warrington, Jeff Gregory, Regina S. Guggenheim, Kathryn A Hecht, Lisa A. Mammel, Lisa Morse, Ray Riegert, Maury Zeff, Anonymous

PATRON ($250-$499)

Wendy Bear, Jack Codd, Jean and Norm Reynolds, Maria Ross, Diane Sampson, Jerome Solberg, Annie Stuart, Janine Wilburn, Robin L. Wimsatt, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Anonymous (2)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Sharon Baldwin and Joseph Ganem, Gerhard and Kathleen Bette, Dr. Katherine Ardis Blenko, Frieda de Lackner, Michael Fried, Mr. Eric Garcia, Tom Goetzl, Cindy Goldfield, Mr. Stanley William Hathaway, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Abbe S. Kalos & Kitt Saginor, Jennifer King, Gregg Le Blanc, Jonathan Luskin, Paris McCarthy, Everett & Julia Moore, Louis Parnell, Dr. Alan Pearl, Madeline Daly Puccioni , Jesus Reyes, Emily Brauer Rogers, Mike Rosenthal, Christine Sheppard, Liam Vincent, Bex White, Christian Edward Wilburn

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+, Monique Aldred, Steve Apostolina, Esther Banegas Gatica, Jaisey Bates, Evan Baughfman+, Summer Broyhill, Emily Brauer Rogers+, Joe Luis Cedillo, Allie Costa+, Bailey Jordan Garcia, Lauren Gorski+, Mason Greer, Julio Hanson, Briggs Hatton+, Aaron Higareda+, Uma Incrocci+, Starina Johnson+, M.J. Kang+, Michael Kaplan, Ross Tedford Kendall, Arthur Keng+, Keyanna Khatiblou, Ethan LaCaro, Mildred Inez Lewis+, Rhea MacCallum+, Liza McGowan, Scott Mullen+, Peter Pasco, Lina Patel, Joni Ravenna, Jessica June Rowe+, Mark Sherstinsky+, Ayesha Siddiqui+, Nicki Spencer+, Jennie Webb+, Karl Williams
+ Past Best of PlayGround playwright.

PLAYGROUND-LA COMPANY

Jahnavi Alyssa, Julia Belanova, Josef Bette, Sylvia Cervantes Blush, Ben Cain, Hugo Carbajal, Jordan Carlson, Jordan Covington, Frieda de Lackner, Hillary DeMartino, Carolyn Deskin, Rogelio Douglas III, Danny Gomez, Christian Haines, Julio Hanson, Mark Jacobson, Alexia Jasmene, Kurt Kanazawa, Stephanie T. Keefer, Emily Kuroda, Christopher Gary Lawson, Jully Lee, Christine Liao, Lea Madda, Jackie Marriott, Gabi Mayorga, Paris McCarthy, Rondrell McCormick, Sherry Michaels, Krystal Mosley, Melissa Ortiz, 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, Lamar Usher, Carla Vega, William Warren, Charlotte Williams, Christina Wren, Demetrius Wren

PRODUCTION & STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Paris McCarthy, Associate Artistic Director 
Sylvia Blush, Associate Producer 
Tiana Randall-Quant, Associate Producer 
Cybelle Kaehler, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice
Casey Kassal, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice
David H. Parker, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice
Tammy Mora, Resident Stage Manager
Susan C. Hunter, House Manager

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