PlayGround-LA presents Season 11

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

Topic: “GIVE AND TAKE”
November 14th, 2022 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.

The Hunter
By Ayesha Siddiqui
Directed by Gabi Mayorga
Deer……………………………Emily Kuroda
Hunter………………………………..Josef Bette

Trick or Treat
By Scott Mullen
Directed by Julianna Stephanie Ojeda
Virginia…………..Carla Vega
Ginny………………………..Christine Liao

Karma
By Lina Patel
Directed by Paris McCarthy
Lani………………………Aisha Lomax
Jed………………………………..Richard V. Ruyle
Devon ……………………….. Alexia Jasmene

Your Precious Jewel
By Summer Broyhill
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Becca………………………………….Carolyn Deskin
Ted……………………………………..Eric Geller
Harper……………………………………..Jahnavi Alyssa
Lance……………………………………..Jalen Eason

Watermelon Love
By M.J Kang
Directed by Sylvia Cervantes Blush
Nell……………………………..Kayun Kim
Simon………………………...Mark Jacobson

That’s Not Funny
By Michael B. Kaplan
Directed by Rachel Berney Needleman
Customer……………………..Tahmus Rounds
Pawnbroker…………………..William Warren

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

SUMMER BROYHILL (Your Precious Jewel), 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 IG.

M.J. KANG (Watermelon Love), she/her, is a playwright, actor, and director, based in Los Angeles and Montreal. She’s recently been awarded The Breath Project New Play Award 2022 and is one of the recipients of Theater J’s Expanding The Canon Award 2022-2024. She’s been commissioned by Portland Playhouse, Shotgun Players, AFO Solo Shorts (twice) and Blyth Festival Theater. She’s had her plays produced by Son of Semele, Pan Asian Rep, East West Players, Theater Passe Muraille, Tarragon Theater, Factory Theater, Blyth Festival Theater, Shakespeare in Action, AFO Solo Shorts, Shotgun Players, Rising Sun. She’s been playwright in residence at Nightwood Theater and Theater Passe Muraille. She continues to be part of the Playwrights Group at Company of Angels (third year), The Barrow Group’s Restorative Stories with Seth Barrish (second year,) and is part of the Writer’s Pool at Playground-LA (second year.) She’s participated in The Vagrancy Theater’s Writer’s Group, Tarragon Theater’s Playwrights Unit and Theater Passe Muraille’s Playwrights Group (two years.) She’s been nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play (Toronto’s professional theater awards)and has received other awards, fellowships, and nominations from Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council (three times), Groundlings (3 times), UCB (2 times), Impro Theater (full year) and Westside Comedy Theater. She was recently on the writing staff as Story Editor on a HBO Max one hour drama and as an actor, has been in films, television, radio and seen on stage in Canada, the US and London, England. She’s currently acting in a new television show in a recurring guest starring role.

MICHAEL B. KAPLAN (That’s Not Funny), he/him, had his first play produced in the One-Act Marathon at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. Since then he has worked primarily as a TV writer and producer on a dozen different prime time shows for ABC, NBC, FOX and the CW, including stints on such seminal shows as “Roseanne” and “Frasier.” He created “I’m in the Band” on Disney XD and “Dog with a Blog” on Disney Channel, serving as showrunner for both. He has been nominated for four Emmy Awards, winning one, and received a BET Comedy Award for his work as a writer on “Girlfriends.” He is the author of the “Betty Bunny” series of children’s books.

SCOTT MULLEN (Trick or Treat), he/him, is a playwright and occasional screenwriter, whose short plays have been produced over 600 times around the world. Most recently he co-wrote the TV movie LINE SISTERS, which aired on Lifetime this past weekend.

LINA PATEL (Karma), she/her, creates work that explores power, grief, and the struggle for purpose in a precarious world. Selected commissions/productions: Yale Rep, New Harmony Project, Artists At Play, Center Theater Group, Silk Road, Japanese American National Museum, 24 Hour Viral Monologues, Chalk Rep, the Sewanee Writer’s Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellow). Her Playwright’s Arena commissioned adaptation of Lope de Vega’s, “The Window of Valencia” was presented at UCLA’s 2022 LAEscena Festival. Lina is co-producer of Ava DuVernay’s anthology series, “Cherish the Day”; previously on DC’s Superman origin-story, “Krypton”. She got her start as a critically acclaimed actor and voice-over artist. More at: www.linapatelwriter.com

AYESHA SIDDIQUI (The Hunter), 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

JAHNAVI ALYSSA (Your Precious Jewel, “Harper”), she/her, has sung, danced, acted, fiddled and choreographed on stages across the country. Most recently she was seen in Los Angeles as Claire Clairmont in It’s Alive (Downtown Rep), in Portland as Reza in Once (Broadway Rose Theatre Company), and in Salt Lake City playing Qfwfq in The Distance of the Moon (Sackerson Theatre Co.). She is a proud Playground-LA company member and performs the Monday Night Playgrounds regularly, which are a joy. 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. www.jahnavialyssa.com

CAROYLN DESKIN (Your Precious Jewel, “Becca”), she/her, is a Los Angeles based performer and director. She’s recently completed her new short film, Headed Home, which she submitted to AFI conservatory for their directing program. She is currently directing a new comedic web series. And she can be seen on various stages throughout town performing comedic bits.

JALEN EASON (Your Precious Jewel, “Lance”) he/him, began his acting journey at Chicago’s Roosevelt University. There 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 film making. He co-founded Apt. 56 Productions with his wife, Cori Munro, and has been chasing a career in film ever since.

JOSEF BETTE (The Hunter, “Hunter”), 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.

ERIC GELLER (Your Precious Jewel, “Ted”), he/him, for the last twenty years, Eric’s been a member of “Dancing Squirrels,” a non-profit theater troupe that performs at underserved schools and for ill and abused children. Pre-covid, Eric had been performing extensively in immersive theater, including Hollywood Fringe Fest award winners, “Unreal City” and “Vote For Murder.” Eric’s most recognized for hosting an archaeology/exploration series, “Cities of the Underworld,” for The History Channel. Eric’s from St. Louis, attended “Mizzou” and graduated from UC-Irvine.

KAHYUN KIM (Watermelon Love, “Nell”), she/her, was born and raised in South Korea. Kahyun moved to the United States and was immediately accepted into Juilliard’s Drama School. She recently wrapped a major role in Universal Studio’s film Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks and is most known for playing New Media on the hit STARZ series, American Gods. She can also be seen in TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), Mr. Mayor (NBC), 9-1-1 (Fox), Tommy(CBS), Shameless (Showtime), Timeless (NBC), Adam Ruins Everything (TruTV), The Mysteries of Laura (NBC), Austin & Ally (Disney) and Cassandra French (Fullscreen); Films like Bad Match (Netflix), Spa Night (Sundance Premiere) and the Disney reboot of Freaky Friday. Theatre credits include A. R. Gurney’s Love And Money (Signature), starring role in Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista (Steppenwolf) and Jeremy O. harris’ Daddy (co-produced by Vineyard and New Group Theatre).

EMILY KURODA (The Hunter, “Deer”), she/her, has been a proud member of Playground LA for years.

AISHA LOMAX (Karma, “Lani”), she/her,  is excited to join the Playground team for this season. She’s an actor, filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Credits include readings/performances with Orlando Shakes, Dragons Theatre Production Company and the Roots and Wings Project. Additional credits include Kenan (NBC), S.W.A.T. (CBS), Bromates, Good Girls (NBC), Casual (HULU) and commercials such as Progressive, Rocket Mortgage and Orkin. In her free time, she enjoys experiencing each and every day as it comes.

MARK JACOBSON (Watermelon Love, “Simon”), he/him, is thrilled to return to Playground. Catch him Guest Starring in the 1st episode of Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales on 11/22 and starring opposite Kelsey Grammer in Lifetime’s The 12 Days of Christmas Eve on 11/26!

ALEXIA JASMENE (Karma, “Devon”), she/her, is excited to return to Monday nights with Playground LA as a company member! After getting to dust off her Theatre chops from her Chicago days with Playground LA in four productions in 2021, she is ready to dive back in and was fortunate enough to write a piece and perform it in “Tales of the Trancestors” at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022 with Celebration Theatre and is looking forward to performing a play and music at Celebration Theatre’s all trans and GNC artist showcase “HEAR THEM LOUD”. She is still pursuing her TV/Film and Voice Over career as well and grateful to be feeding her soul with the theatre.

CHRISTINE LIAO (Trick or Treat, “Ginny”) 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.

TAHMUS ROUNDS (That’s Not Funny, “Customer”), he/him, has been a stage and television actor for over 30 years, and was a Blue Man in Blue Man Group Chicago. His tv credits include How I Met Your Mother, Bones, and 911Lonestar. Tahmus is very excited to be in this 11th season of PlaygroundLA!

RICHARD V RUYLE (Karma, “Jed”), he/him, is an actor, playwright, and civil engineer. Regional acting credits include Over The Tavern at La Mirada Theatre, Sideman at Ensemble Theatre in Santa Barbara, Monster at East West Players, and Heathen Valley at San Jose Stage Company. His one act plays have been produced at the Attic Theatre and Moving Arts. Playground plays he has authored include IC, Do You Hear…?, Heart of a Dog, A Gift, and Straight Shot.

CARLA VEGA (Trick or Treat, “Virginia”), she/her,  is a versatile and veteran actor (SAG/AFTRA), VO artist, singer, dancer, writer who loves the process of creative collaboration and uplifting new voices and stories on the stage and screen. Recent work includes: Audiobook narration for suspense thriller “Things We Do in the Dark” by Jennifer Hillier, and the API women-led short film, “Everything Good”. Carla has been a proud member of PG-LA since season 1! Follow her artistic journey and upcoming offerings. All socials: @iamcarlavega and linktr.ee/iamcarlavega

WILLIAM L. WARREN (That’s Not Funny, “Pawnbroker”), he/him, is a native of Gary, Indiana. He began his journey at the famed Second City Theater Improvisation Workshop in Chicago, Ill. William who is an actor and vocalist has performed in various musical productions, toured Canada with the Platters and performed as a backup vocalist with recording artist Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo of The Fifth Dimensions, Stephanie Mills, Deniece Williams and Phillip Bailey of Earth Wind and Fire, among others. William is currently collaborating on a production of Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and recently appeared in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at The Long Beach Playhouse, the critically acclaimed The Little Foxes at Antaeus Theatre: Towne Street Theatre; IN RESPONSE; THE FERTILE RIVER at Baylor University, and 2019 NAACP Theatre Award nominee PERIPHERY at The Hudson Theatre.

DIRECTORS

RACHEL BERNEY NEEDLEMAN (That’s Not Funny), she/her, is a director and dramaturg for new and classical works. She is thrilled to be directing again at Playground-LA. Directing credits include What We’re Up Against (Pacific Resident Theatre Co-op), Cabaret Noel with Gigi Bermingham (Antaeus, Skylight Theatre), Cowgirls by Mildred Lewis (EST-LA), 4 Minutes (MeetCute LA), and new play readings and workshops for Company of Angels, Chalk Rep, The Blank, EST-LA, Skylight and Theatricum Botanicum. She recently began directing audioplays for OpenDoorPlayhouse.org. Her dramaturg credits include productions at Arizona Theatre Company and Antaeus. She is a co-author of the Los Angeles Anti-Racist Theatre Standards.

SYLVIA CERVANTES BLUSH (Watermelon Love; Associate Producer), ella/she/her, was a finalist for the SDC Foundation Denham Fellowship. She recently closed the world premiere “Desert Stories for Lost Girls” by Lily Rushing (Genízaro) co-produced by Native Voices at the Autry and the Latino Theater Company. In 2023 she will be making her LORT debut with the historic Dallas Theater Center as she directs Karen Zacarías dueling neighbor comedy “Native Gardens”.

JIM KLEINMANN (Your Precious Jewel; 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.

GABI MAYORGA (The Hunter), 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. She’s excited to direct Tippy Toe by Tahirih Moeller.

PARIS MCCARTHY (Karma; Associate Artistic Director), she/her, is thrilled to be directing this month and wishes. everyone a nice November Holiday

JULIANNA STEPHANIE OJEDA (Trick or Treat), 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 (Karma / Watermelon Love, Assistant Director), they/them, is a director, writer, and actor from Birmingham, AL, a blue island in the US South’s sea of red. Most recent credits include: PATIENCE (Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre), I’M HERE NOW (Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Play Reading), THE ZOO STORY (University of California, Los Angeles). While pursuing their MFA in Directing at UCLA, intersectionality is at the core of their work; the intersection of Blackness and Queerness will always be at the top of their priorities.

CYBELLE KAEHLER (The Hunter / Your Precious Jewel, Assistant Director), she/her, recently graduated from UC Irvine with degrees in Drama and Film and Media Studies. Cybelle strives to tell meaningful stories centered on women and other marginalized groups, often focusing on social issues. She has directed and written several plays and short films. At UCI, she was co-president of Brick Theatre Company, a student collective focused on LGBTQ+ works. This summer, she worked as an assistant director at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival. Her latest short film, “Tombé”, recently premiered at the California Women’s Film Festival and won Best Student Film at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. Instagram: @cybellerose cybellekaehler.com

PRODUCTION

TAMMY MORA (Stage Manager)

SUSAN C. HUNTER (Front of House), she/her, is a veteran of Playwright-LA’s Writers Pool, Susan is working front of house tonight.

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 October 1, 2021 & October 10, 2022.

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 Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program • Creative Capacity Fund • First Republic Bank • The Fleishhacker Foundation • Goldman Sachs • Google • 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, Jerome Joseph Gentes & Michael David Bourque, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Peggy Haas, David Steele, Anonymous

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500–$4,999)

John H. Gilman, Regina S. Guggenheim

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, In Memory of M. David MacCallum, Jr., Rebecca Martinez, Nitin, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Anonymous (3)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Thomas Patrick Broyhill, David Goldman, Jeff Gregory, Regina S. Guggenheim, Linda Kremer, Lisa A. Mammel, Lisa Morse, Nvidia, Nancy & Carty Spencer, J.B. Strasser, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Anonymous (3)

PATRON ($250-$499)

Dr. Elaine Baskin & Kenneth R. Krechmer, Lily L Chow, Ruben & Keli Grijalva, Vicki Hamilton, Roxy Jones, Ray and Carla Kaliski, Annie Stuart, Lisa R. Taylor, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (3)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Maura C. Berkelhamer, Dr. Katherine Ardis Blenko, Frieda de Lackner, Jessica Forbess, Mr. Eric Garcia, Sarah Gasser, Tom Goetzl, Gina Harris, Abbe S. Kalos & Kitt Saginor, Jennifer King, Douglas & Mary Ann Le Blanc, Gregg Le Blanc, Trynne Miller & David Prince, Everett & Julia Moore, Louis Parnell, Dr. Alan Pearl, Ms. Madeline Daly Puccioni, Mike Rosenthal, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Jeffrey Trescott, Liam Vincent, Mr. Darryl Wilburn, Janine & Darryl Wilburn, Robin L. Wimsatt, Kelli Wong, Anonymous (3)

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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