PlayGround Chicago presents Season 1

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

Topic: “Give and Take“

December 5, 2022 7pm CT

Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live

Balance
by Alica Daine Benning
Directed by Brooke-Erin Smith
Coach Beth ……………………. Alka Nayyar
Annika …………………. Jordan Zelvin
Junie …………………. Skylar Frishman
Maggie …………………. Chanell Bell

No More Flowers
by Dana Hall
Directed by Marti Lyons
Freud …………………. Robert Sicular
O’Keeffe ……………………….. Charlotte Harris

Mosquitos
by Tanuja Devi Jagernauth
Directed by Devin Christor
Grace ……………………….. Jamila Joiner
Bob ……………………….. Benjamin Kelly
Mosquito ……………………….. Scott Gryder

Dig In
by Jay Oaks
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Mary ……………………. MiKayla Boyd
Mom ……………………….. Ashley Graham
Dad …………………………… Willie E. Jones III

The Second First Kiss
by Matt Schutz
Directed by Brian Balcom
Theo ………………………. Braedyn Youngberg
Emmet ………………. William Hodgson

Not Unusual
by RJ Silva
Directed by Leanna Oliveira
Kyle ………………….. Louel Senores
Corazon ………………… Marissa Ampon

Stage Manager: Sarah Gasser

This live stream is produced under a SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement.

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group,
and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network (NNPN).

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’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 my phone, it’s 8541) or on our website at https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/online?donationquick=16 (you can also visit the Monday Night PlayGround page for the People’s Choice donation button). Add a note/memo with your gift 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 continue doing what we do!

ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT

PlayGround-Chicago acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires, including the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa, the original inhabitants of the Chicago metropolitan area. As the past and present Indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Council of Three Fires 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 Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa 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 Council of Three Fires Communities and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. We honor the storytellers of the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa and are grateful for our ability to share and uplift Indigenous stories and those of other historically marginalized communities. In working with artists and audiences from all over the country, PlayGround-Chicago asks that each member of the PlayGround-Chicago community representing a different geographical space respectfully acknowledge the legacy of the land they inhabit.

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-Chicago’s Anti-Racist Policy

PlayGround 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 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’s Anti-Racist Policy applies to: all members of the PlayGround community, including employees, independent contractors, volunteers, audience members, donors, and general members of the community.

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

THANK YOU TO PLAYGROUND MEMBERS!

We would like to thank PlayGround members Dr. Elaine Baskin & Kenneth R. Krechmer, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Kenneth C. Clews, Paulette Donsavage & Deeje Cooley, Sunny Da Silva, Carole Florian, Ms. Kristy Lin Billuni, Mr. Scott Mullen, Ms. Vicki Oswald, Michelle Ruscetta, Kathryn Ryan, Andrew Trott, and Dr. Eidell Wasserman for their contribution.

A Monday Night PlayGround membership is a tax-deductible donation and directly supports the more than 400 artists involved in a Monday Night PlayGround season. Members are guaranteed tickets and simulcast access to twenty-four (24) Monday Night PlayGround performances, weekly, October 10, 2022-May 1, 2023, with extended on-demand viewing. Click here to become a member.

Biographies

PLAYWRIGHTS

ALICIA DAINE BENNING (Balance), she/her, (pronounced “AL-i-kuh” like “Metallica”) is a playwright and performer hailing from a tiny town in the rural Southwest. She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California, and recently earned her MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage from Northwestern University. Alica is passionate about telling stories that center mental health, trauma, dysmorphia, misogyny, and the female experience. Her plays explore the intersections of wellness and identity through complex and relationship-driven narratives which are poignant and darkly funny.
Alica is currently based out of Chicago, where in her free time she is a hobbyist figure skater, rock climber, film photographer, and watcher of love-themed reality TV shows. Alica has never been to a Cubs game, and vows she never will.

DANA HALL (No More Flowers), she/her, is a playwright, actor, and mental health therapist. Her Edgar Allen Poe adaptation (Under the Floorboards) was named Outstanding Theatrical Adaptation, Gee-Rated Innertainment. She was a finalist with Morecambe Fringe John Clarke Memorial Prize for script-writing (Lucid). Her self performed/original monologue (Snowglobe) won the Femuscript Monologue Contest 2022. She was the Audience Choice Award winner (Underneath) Eclectic Theatre Patchwork Festival and Finalist Winner in the Hear Me Out Monologue Competition & Labor Day Festival (Sound Mind) 2021. Her plays have been published with Heuer, Stage Plays, & Smith Scripts. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild & Honor Roll! DanaHallCreates.com Instagram: @DanaHallCreates.

TANUJA DEVI JAGERNAUTH (Mosquitos), she/her/hers, is an Indo-Caribbean playwright and dramaturg who believes in the necessity of creation during times of destruction. In 2016, she shifted career paths from Traditional East Asian Medicine to theatre in hopes of practicing four frameworks for collective liberation and wellness through theatre: self/community care, harm reduction, trauma awareness, and body positivity. Inspired by healing justice and PIC abolition, Tanuja employs comedy, magical realism, the fantastic and the absurd to raise questions around how we heal and fight back against internal and external oppressions and build a prison- and police-free world..

JAY OAKS (Dig In), they/them, is an improviser first, storyteller second, and performs for a living as a guide for crime tours and a standardized patient at Northwestern. This program is the first thing to get them back into playwriting since graduating Knox College in 2016 and they’re very excited to have been selected!

MATT SCHULTZ (The Second First Kiss), he/him, is a playwright and actor currently based in Chicago. His play With the Weight of her Fate on her Shoulders was a winner of the New South Young Playwrights Contest, was workshopped at the Horizon Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia and earned him a finalist slot for the Dramatist’s Guild Young Playwright Award. He has developed plays with the University of Iowa, Intrinsic Theatre, the Pride Arts Center, and Inkwell Theater.

RJ SILVA (Not Unusual), he/him, is a playwright, director, and creative producer in Chicago, previously directed and performed for 2nd Story Chicago, and the Orlando Fringe Festival.

ACTORS

MARISSA AMPON (Not Unusual, “Corazon”), she/her/hers, is a technical creative on Ramaytush Ohlone Land (aka the San Francisco Peninsula). Started her acting journey as a voiceover artist and business owner of AmpOnTheAir. Since 2017, she has expanded her skillset to stage and screen actor, stage manager, zoom tech operator, producer, and former Managing Director for The Chikahan Company. Last heard in the radio play, as Yaw-Yaw in PRELUDE (Bindlestiff Studio), on stage as Esmeralda in BELOW SYCAMORE (Shelton Theater) and on screen as Nurse Barb in the award-winning short film NANAY’S LULLABY (Sunny Owl Pictures). IG: @ampontheair

CHANELL BELL (Balance, “Maggie”), she/her/hers, is an American storyteller and humanitarian. Previous performances include Fireflies (Northlight), She The People (Second City), Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Raven), POWER Book: IV on STARZ network and NEXT on Fox. Recent nominations include the BTAA Ethel Waters Award for her role as Olivia Grace in Fireflies. In addition to performing, Chanell is dedicated to helping young artists fine tune their craft and has spent years teaching storytellers in countries all over the world.

MIKAYLA BOYD (Dig In, “Mary”).

SKYLAR FRISHMAN (Balance, “Junie”), she/they,  is an actor of over a decade. They are so excited to participate in a Zoom Performance with PlayGround for the first time! In the past they have been a Fairy in a Zoom production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a number of live theater performances, but this is their first staged reading. In their free time they enjoy reading and eating ramen.

ASHLEY GRAHAM (Dig In, “Mom”), she/her, is an actor from Spartanburg, South Carolina. She was last seen as Michelle in Campfire Repertory Theatre’s production of Elastic Mind by Christian Alexander. She has a BA in Theatre from the University of South Carolina and is about a year into the Chicago artistry scene. She is excited to tell this unique story with PlayGround!

SCOTT GRYDER (Mosquitos, “Mosquito”) he/him, most recently appeared in Eleanor’s Very Merry Christmas Wish (DMT Productions) the Jeff-Award Winning Buyer & Cellar (Pride Films & Plays), Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyric Opera Chicago), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Drury Lane Theatre at Water Tower Place). He has performed in a multitude of cabarets, including SIMPLY SCOTTY (with Nick Sula), WOZ: A Rock Cabaret, and Life Is A Cabaret – The Music & Words of Kander & Ebb, at Davenport’s, Skokie Theatre, and Auditorium. B.A. in Theater, Texas Tech University. MeTV’s Green Screen Adventures earned him three National Daytime Emmy Awards. www.thescottgryder.com

CHARLOTTE HARRIS (No More Flowers, “O’Keeffe”), she/her, is excited to be working with Playground! Charlotte is a recent transplant of Houston, Texas with a Musical Theatre Background. On her time off she enjoys kayaking and crafting. Charlotte would like to thank her friends and family for their constant support, and Playground for the wonderful opportunity!

WILLIAM HODGSON (The Second First Kiss, “Emmet”).

JAMILA JOINER (The Curse, “Beth”), she/her, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Jamila has been seen in many Minneapolis stages including The Guthrie’s A Christmas Carol (2017), The History Theater’s Teen Idol: A Bobby Vee Story (2016 & 2018), Park Square Theater’s Antigone (2019), Mixed Blood Theater’s ROE (2019), Walking Shadow Theater Company’s Reboot (2021), and many more. Her on-screen credits include commercial modeling for many local and national companies. She would like to thank the artistic team of the Playground Chicago for choosing her and making this piece of work her Chicago debut! @jamilajoiner, www.jamilajoiner.com

WILLIE E. JONES III (Dig In, “Dad”), he/him, graduated from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theatre BFA Actor Training Program. He has performed on stages such as The Globe and Morsani Hall. As a playwright, his plays have received workshops and readings at the likes of The Lorraine Hansberry Theater and Millsap College. He is the former Co-Director of Theatre at CFCArts and is the former Artistic Director of Stage Door Theatre. He was also the Executive Producer of the “Blackness Is…” Theatre Arts Festival in collaboration with The Guthrie. He is the Artistic Director of the Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project and is the founding actor/manager of the Jones Classical Theatre Company.

BENJAMIN KELLY (Mosquitos, “Bob”), he/him, is a proud graduate of Illinois State University, with a B.S. in acting. He is incredibly thrilled to be making his debut at PlayGround-Chicago. At Illinois State, he played Jason/Tyrone in Hand to God, King Edward IV in Richard III and Harry Fatt in Waiting For Lefty. Other roles include Roy Cohn in both parts of Angels in America at Joliet Junior College and original roles in several world-premiere works through Coalescence Theatre Project. Ben is based in Chicago, and you can find him on Instagram at ben13kelly.

ALKA NAYYAR‘s (Balance, “Coach Beth”), she/her, selected work: Bhangin’ It (La Jolla Playhouse); The Jungle Book (Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre); The Secret Garden (Court Theatre); Campaigns, Inc., Oslo, Master Class, A Disappearing Number (TimeLine Theatre), A Christmas Carol (The Hanover Theatre, Central Square Theatre); Merchant On Venice (Vitalist + Rasaka 2018; Silk Road 2007); The Masrayana (Jeff Award-nominated choreography), A Widow Of No Importance, A Nice Indian Boy (Rasaka Theatre); Great Expectations (Remy Bumppo + Silk Road); TV: NBC’s Chicago Fire, Med + PD; Film: “Hala”, “The Miseducation Of Bindu”; Web Series: “Code-Switched”. Alka teaches Indian dance and promotes South Asian cultural awareness as Co-Artistic Director of Chicago’s Chitrahar Cultural Academy, at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago Children’s Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet. A University of Chicago alum and a PR consultant, she also serves as Communications Director for Asian ensemble Token Theatre. @alka.selza

LOUEL SENORES (Not Unusual, “Kyle”) is hyped to be able to play with PlayGround once again! Recent performance credits include: “Dream Hou$e” and “The Act of Care.” Recent SM credits include: “Balikbayan Box” and “Water by the Spoonful.” For more info, check out LouelSenores.com

ROBERT SICULAR (No More Flowers, “Freud”).

BRAEDYN YOUNGBERG (The Curse, “Jeremy”), he/him, is thrilled to be joining PlayGround-Chicago in their mission to develop local playwrights! Regional theatre credits include “Don Armado” (Loves Labors Lost), “Roderigo” (Othello), and “Antonio” (Twelfth Night) with Marin Shakespeare Company, “Orlando, et al” (As You Like It) with SF Shakes, “The Monster” (Young Frankenstein) with Spreckels PAC, and “Brad Majors” (The Rocky Horror Show) with Sixth Street Playhouse. Braedyn has trained locally with The Second City and iO Chicago, as well as regionally with Shakespeare & Company.

JORDAN ZELVIN (The Curse, “Jeremy”), she/her/hers, is a Chicago teaching artist with a love of improv, collaboration, and storytelling. Some of her favorite Chicago credits include FAILURE: A LOVE STORY (Oil Lamp Theater), CHICAGO WOMEN’S FUNNY FESTIVAL (Stage 773), and performing with COMEDYSPORTZ CHICAGO (Blackout Cabaret at Piper’s Alley). You can catch Jordan this December starring as Hershel in HERSHEL AND THE HANUKKAH GOBLINS at the Edge off Broadway with Strawdog Theatre Company.

DIRECTORS

BRIAN BALCOM (The Second First Kiss), he/him, is a disabled, Asian-American Director based in Chicago who specializes in contemporary, muscular, relationship-driven plays. He enjoys working with playwrights and thinks that entertainment is underrated. He has directed 12 world premieres, 6 of which were personally commissioned, and has helped develop work at The Playwrights Center, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Dramatists, and La Jolla Rep. Brian has sat on artistic advisory committees for Park Square Theater, Writers Theater, National New Play Network, and American Theater Magazine and served as panel speaker on disability and theater for TCG, American Theater Magazine, Shakespeare Theater Association, The Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and 3Arts

DEVIN CHRISTOR (Mosquitos), he/him, is a director that focuses on plays that critique hegemonic masculinity. Since receiving his B.A in Drama from the University of North Texas he has traveled the country working for several professional theaters to observe established directors and study the ecology of regional theater in America. Credits include: 1919 (Steppenwolf), Julius Caesar & God of Carnage (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Into the Side of a Hill (Flint Repertory Theater “New Works Festival”), Freeze Out (Trinity Repertory Company “America Too” Festival), and Oba (Triangle Rainbow Productions “LGBTQ Short Play” Festival), The Gift of the Magi (American Players Theatre), A Raisin in the Sun (Beverly Arts Center).

JIM KLEINMANN (Dig In; 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.

MARTI LYONS (No More Flowers), she/her, most recently directed Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon currently playing at Northlight Theatre. She recently directed the co-world premiere of Wife of a Salesman at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Sense and Sensibility adapted by Jessica Swale at American Players Theatre, and the world-premiere of John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower at Studio Theatre in D.C. Marti’s other productions include The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess at Writers Theatre; Cymbeline at American Players Theatre; The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe and both the stage and audio productions of Kings by Sarah Burgess at Studio Theatre; the world-premiere of How to Defend Yourself by liliana padilla, a Victory Gardens and Actors Theatre of Louisville co-production; Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee at Victory Gardens and City Theatre; Witch by Jen Silverman at Geffen Playhouse and Writers Theatre (LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Direction); Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías at Victory Gardens; Botticelli in the Fire by Jordan Tannahill at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; I, Banquo at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Title and Deed by Will Eno at Lookingglass Theatre Company; Laura Marks’ Bethany and Mine at The Gift Theatre. Next, Marti will direct Galileo’s Daughter by Jessica Dickey at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. Marti the Artistic Director of Remy Bumppo, an ensemble member at The Gift Theatre, and a proud member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. martilyons.com.

LEANNA OLIVEIRA (Not Unusual).

BROOKE-ERIN SMITH, (Balance; Associate Producer), she/her, is a theatre artist based in Chicago. She has performed across the country and was a finalist for the 2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Her work has been read/performed with Relative Theatrics, Mirrorbox Theatre, Illinois State University, Little Red Theatre Company, and Wellesley College, among others. She was a finalist for the 2021 Echo Theater Company Young Playwrights in Residence program and a semi-finalist for the 2023 Goodman Playwrights Unit. She has directed with St. Croix Festival Theatre, Whiskey Radio Hour, and Improv Playhouse, among other companies. Find her online at brookeerinsmith.com

PRODUCTION & STAFF

SARAH GASSER (Resident Stage Manager).

PLAYGROUND-Chicago is the third regional expansion of the celebrated Bay Area playwright incubator and theatre community hub, PlayGround(SF). PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator, provides unique development opportunities for the Bay Area’s, Los Angeles’, New York’s and now Chicago’s best new playwrights, including the monthly Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, full-length play commissions and support for the production of new plays by local playwrights through the New Play Production Fund. To date, PlayGround has supported over 250 early career playwrights, developing and staging more than 1,000 of their original short plays through the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series and the PlayGround Festival. PlayGround has also commissioned 90 new full-length plays by 60 of these writers through its Commissioning Initiative and, through the innovative New Play Production Fund, has directly facilitated the premiere of 34 plays at theatres of every size, including three that have gone on to NYC and other major theater communities. Most recently, PlayGround renovated and relaunched the former Thick House Theater in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill as Potrero Stage, a state-of-the-art center for new plays, home to PlayGround’s expanding artistic programs and some of the Bay Area’s most distinguished new play developers and producers. Over the past twenty-seven years, PlayGround has served to identify some of the most important new local voices for the theatre. PlayGround’s alumni have gone on to win local, national, and international honors for their short and full-length work, including recognition at the Humana Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Lark’s Playwrights’ Week, New York International Fringe Festival, and others. PlayGround received the 2009 Paine Knickerbocker Award for outstanding contributions to Bay Area theatre, 3 BATCC Awards for Best Original Script for PlayGround commissions, a 2014 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (founder of the Tony Awards®), and a 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

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-sf.org/contribute or contact PlayGround Associate Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org or by phone at (415) 992-6677.

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PLAYGROUND-CH WRITERS COMPANY

Austin Adams, Leah Barsanti, Alica Benning, Gabriella Bonamici, Sarah Bowden, McKennzie Boyd, DC Cathro, Rammel Chan, Ada  Cheng, Richard Lyons Conlon, Scott Cooper, Sunny da Silva , Emma Durbin, Lisa Feriend, Kym Fraher, John Frank, Jay Greve, Dana Hall, Tanuja Jagernauth, Kerri Killeen, Samuel Levit, David Lipschutz, Marjorie Muller, Karissa  Murrell Myers, Ryan Oliveira, Taylor Owen, Susan Pak, Kendall Phillips, Edward Pinkowski, Emma Rund, Matt Schutz, Justin Sikes, RJ Silva, Ryan Stevens, Wai Yim, Desiree York

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Devin Christor, Associate Producer 
Brooke Smith, Associate Producer 
Yiwen Wu, Associate Producer 
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager 
Leanna Oliveira, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice
Karina Patel, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice
Genevieve Swanson, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice

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