March 16th Monday Night PlayGround-Chicago Playbill

PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 4

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

Topic: “Bedtime Stories”
March 16, 2026, 7 pm CT
 Chicago Dramatists & Simulcast

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.

Monday Night PlayGround Memberships

We are deeply grateful to our 2025-26 Monday Night PlayGround Members, whose direct support helps to underwrite artists fees for the Monday Night series across all four regions:

Dr. & Mrs. Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Sharon Baldwin, Julie Berthold, Tim Bishop, Linda B Breaux-Smith, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, John Brown, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Ben Cain, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Joan Cleveland, Sheila Collins, Marilyn Berg Cooper, Logan Varas De Valdes, Betsy Dudak, Cathy Earnest, Ann Ehrmann, Krystyna Finlayson, Michael Tonjum & Jan Gilman, Hollis Greenwood, Elizabeth Groenewegen, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Brandy T Jones, Roxy Jones, Jacqueline Whittier Kubicka, Emily Kuroda, Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Le Blanc, Alice Lehmann, Karen & Matt Levesque, Kristy Lin Billuni, Melinda Lopez, Linda G Marks, Dolores Martinez, Dr. Sheila McCormick, Yvonne McIntyre, Cynthia L Morishige, Dan Morley, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Annette Oliveira, Emily Brauer Rogers, George Rose, Jessica June Rowe, Michelle Ruscetta, John J. Ruskin, Miyoko Sakatani, Jennifer Schultz & Eric Rosenzweig, Mark Sherstinsky, Nancy W. Smith, Stan Stone, Cathy M Stonie, Mary Lou Torre, Kim Tram, Vicki Victoria, Dr. Eidell Wasserman, Bex White, Janine Wilburn, and Cindy Womack. Thank you!

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

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BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

ANDREA BERTING (Hello, My Name Is…. BIGFOOT), she/her, is a live theater professional, having spent much of her career backstage in the world of wardrobe. As a young breast cancer survivor who struggles with bipolar disorder, Andrea uses real-life experience to inspire women-centered stories about finding the joy and levity inside heartbreak and tragedy. Andrea received her BFA in Theater Education from VCU in Richmond, VA. She lives in Chicago with her husband and very anxious rescue dog.

DANA HALL (Itzel and the Ant), she/her, is a Chicago-based, award-winning playwright, actor, and mental health therapist whose work often explores trauma, resilience, and healing. Her plays have received recognition both nationally and internationally. She has been a semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwriting Conference, a multi-time finalist for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, a top finalist for AACT NewPlayFest, and a finalist for the Morecambe Fringe John Clarke Memorial Prize, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellows Program. A winner of the New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest, Dana is currently in residency with the Dramatists Guild Institute’s Certificate in Dramatic Writing program. Her plays have been published by Next Stage Press, Heuer Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Tiny Scripted, and Stage Plays.

TOBY INUE (Mukashi Mukashi), she/her, has loved being a part of PlayGround-Chicago for three seasons, where she has met so many talented artists. Her full length play SORA AND KELLER had a staged reading at Chicago Dramatists (Naked Angels T@9 Chicago, Dec 2025). Toby’s short plays include OWL CALLS AN EMERGENCY MEETING (Break A Leg’s Annual Slam 2025, NYC, Sep 2025; DePaul University’s Climate Action New Play Collective, 2026); POWER PLAY (Troy Foundry Theatre’s Half Baked Festival, NY, Sep 2025); and FRIENDSHIP BREW (ONS Theater, CO, Oct 2025). Toby is a founding member of the Evanston Playwrights Group and a member of the Playwrights Circle @ Speranza Theatre Company. https://wabi-sa.com; @toby.inoue

ARTI ISHAK (Mission Improbable), they/them is an actor/writer/director based in Chicago whose work centers on Queer, Muslim, and multicultural stories. Acting credits include TV: Southside (HBO); Dark Matter (Apple TV); Chicago Med (NBC), and more. Theatre: Fantastic Super Great Nation Numero Uno, The Best Decision You’ve Ever Made (The Second City); Witch, Buried Child (Writers), Venus in Fur (Circle). Directing credits include short films Shukran Bas (Means of Productions), ba la (HF Productions), HALF (ZAXIE). Arti has been named a 3Arts “Make A Wave” artist for their work as a multi-disciplinary artist, and was awarded ISF’s Narrative Grant for their short film HALF. Arti recently won First Place and Audience Choice awards in the 2024 The Mosquer’s Film Festival pitch competition for their upcoming short film MonoLingo. Arti is an instructor at Black Box Acting and Professor at The Theatre School at DePaul. Represented by Paonessa Talent Agency. www.artiishak.com

ALFONZO SOLOMON KAHLIL (Child, Come Home), they/he, is a poet, playwright, and performance artist, raised on the Westside of Chicago, who believes whatever doesn’t kill you, makes for great art. Awarded Best Actor by New York Film Awards for their portrayal of Peter in The Waiting Room and Dramatist of SCORPIO & THE NEW / NEW TESTAMENT, alfonzo’s art utilizes the spoken word as a medium to explore the realm of the interpersonal. alfonzo holds a BFA in theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is represented by Stewart Talent. They were previously seen in Measure of a Man (Perceptions) The Island (Court u/s John), HOLD UP , and CHICAGO FIRE.

J.S. PULLER (Sheherezade’s Voice), she/her, is a playwright and author from Chicago. She has a master’s degree in elementary education and a bachelor’s degree in theatre from Northwestern. She is an award-winning member of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education and has written about the social-emotional benefits of arts education with the University of Chicago Consortium. She is the author of two novels, CAPTAIN SUPERLATIVE and THE LOST THINGS CLUB. She also has several published plays, including: WOMEN WHO WEAVE, PERSEUS AND MEDUSA – IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME!, THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, and five titles with Plays for New Audiences.

ACTORS

ANDREA CONWAY-DIAZ (Mission Improbable, “Actor 2”), she/her, is thrilled to be part of PlayGround Chicago’s Monday Night Series once again. She recently participated in a staged reading called “She Too Bad For History” at the Beverly Arts Center in conjunction with Amplified Voices. Andrea performed six roles with different voices for the reading! Andrea has been cast in a two-person play called “Life Sentence” as part of Gray Matters Play Festival. Andrea was also in the cast of 7 Guitars, which was nominated for 6 Jeff Awards, including Best Ensemble.

NICOLETTE DE GUIA (Mission Improbable, “Mom”).

 

 

 

STEPHANIE FONGHEISER (Mission Improbable, “Actor 1”), she/her, is excited to be performing with PlayGround-Chicago for the first time. Chicago credits include: The Pets (u/s, Bramble Theatre); Dear Jack, Dear Louise (u/s, Metropolis Theatre); Time is a Color and the Color is Blue (Avalanche Theatre); Mercy Killing (Open Space Arts); The Brightest Thing in the World (u/s, About Face; A Christmas Carol (u/s, Drury Lane Theatre); Little Women (First Folio Theatre); and Frankenstein (Oil Lamp Theatre). She is a company member at Avalanche Theatre and is represented by BMG Talent.

SARAH GARFINKEL (Sheherezade’s Voice, “Dinazade”), she/her, is thrilled to be playing Dinazade at Monday Night PlayGround. She is a Chicago-based actor, writer, and dancer who recently earned her BA from The Ohio State University in Theater and Creative Writing. Originally from Highland Park, she is excited to be back in Chicago and stepping into the city’s vibrant theater scene.

CHARLOTTE HARRIS (Mukashi Mukashi, “Sue”), she/her, is greatful to be performing in another wonderful round with her resident playground company! Some recent credits include PrideArts Panto production Rapornzel (Pascal the Rascal), Saint Sebastian Player’s The Man Who Came to Dinner, and A Penny for Your Intrusive Thoughts at The Second City Training Center, along with multiple Playground Chicago Productions. Here’s to many more!

ARIYA HAWKINS (Itzel and the Ant, “Ant”), she/they, is a Chicago-based performer, poet, multidisciplinary theatre artist, and arts educator. Hawkins has been nominated for a Jeff Award and a BACA Black Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre. She has toured the nation, performing and teaching with several regional companies including Goodman Theatre, The Red Kite Project at Chicago Children’s Theatre, A.B.L.E. Ensemble, Olney Theatre Center, Lifeline, Filament, MPAACT, and Artemisia Theatre. Hawkins has taught over 1,600 students throughout Chicagoland and the U.S., empowering people of all ages, abilities, and experiences through storytelling. Art belongs to all of us, ariyahawkins.com

CARMIA IMANI (Child, Come Home, “Gret”), she/her, is a Chicago-based actor, poet, and producer. Carmia is a company member of PlayGround-Chicago and an ensemble member of A Short Leap Theatre Company. Chicago credits: Veal (A Red Orchid Theatre), Clearing (A Short Leap); Field of Flesh (Leisure); brother sister cyborg space (u/s, Raven Theatre). Regional: Borrowed Babies (American Lives); Skeleton Crew, Death of a Salesman (The Black Rep); Much Ado About Nothing (u/s, Commonwealth Shakespeare). Carmia holds a BFA in Acting from Ball State University. She gives endless thanks to God, her family, and friends for their unwavering support.

LILY LOURIGAN (Mukashi Mukashi, “Quinn”), she/her, is beyond excited to be a part of Monday Night Playground Chicago! After graduating last year with a BA in Theatre Performance, she is paving her way into the professional world of acting. She has done understudy roles with Bramble Theatre, Next Act Theatre MKE (upcoming), and Young People’s Theatre of Chicago and is looking forward to her principal role as Mrs. Manningham in Gaslight with Acacia Theatre. She hopes you enjoy this new work! @pandadinosaurs

BEAU MALONE (Hello, My Name Is…. BIGFOOT, “Bigfoot”), he/they, is a Chicago-based theatremaker hailing from different places.

 

 

ILSA MORALES (Itzel and the Ant, “Itzel”), she/her, is a Chicago-based actress who has been performing with The Playground Theater for several seasons. She is excited to bring her latest character, Itzel, to life.

 

MIA PARK (Mukashi Mukashi, “Harue”), she/her, is a multi-dimensional artist and health care provider based in Chicago, facilitating grassroots projects that connect people and experiences. Boundless enthusiasm fuels her community engagement as a hospice nurse, actor; taiji, yoga, and acting teacher; cultural producer; and university professor. Mia is most proud to produce the EVOLUTION Asian American Arts Festival at Lookingglass Theatre, May 2-3! MiaPark.com

AMAL SALEM (Sheherezade’s Voice, “Sheherazade”), she/her, is a Palestinian-American artist born and raised in the southwest side of Chicago and is passionate about making theater that interacts with and serves our communities. As a multidisciplinary artist, she’s worked with Jackalope Theatre, Avalanche Theatre, Bramble Theatre, A Red Orchid, and PlayGround, and she can also be found at her position as the Admin Associate with Palestine Legal. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 2022 from Northwestern University after studying theater, entrepreneurship and innovation. And, as always, Free Palestine.

SAVAUN STOKES (Child, Come Home, “Han”).

 

 

 

JORDAN ZELVIN (Hello, My Name Is…. BIGFOOT, “Ava”), she/they, is a Chicago teaching artist, comedian, puppeteer, and proud company member of PlayGround Chicago with a love of improv, collaboration, and storytelling. She has worked with The Alliance Theatre, Writers Theatre, NTYA, Oil Lamp Theater, Strawdog Theatre, Redtwist Theatre, The Second City, The Annoyance, iO Theater, and The Revival. Jordan is the Associate Artistic Director and Lead Teaching Artist for the K’ilu Company, co-founder of Chronic Collective Chi, and a comedian of Malarkey Comedy. She’s thrilled to be back with PlayGround Chicago and supporting free and accessible theatre.

DIRECTORS

JJ GATESMAN (Hello, My Name Is…. BIGFOOT), he/him, is a Chicago-based director, playwright and actor with a knack for the fantastical, brutal, and absurd. He has participated in play development with Jackalope, Haven Theater, and Red Theater. His plays have been produced at the Milwaukee Entertainment Group, (Jack of Hearts, The Beauty of Psyche), The Milwaukee Fringe Festival, The Las Vegas Fringe Festival and a devised piece called Machina Persona at Cooperative Performance.

RACHEL RUBIN (Itzel and the Ant), she/her, is a director, teaching artist, and arts administrator based in Chicago. Originally from the D.C. area, she has worked with organizations such as Northlight Theatre, Theater Wit, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Skyline Children’s Theater, The Theatre Lab, and Arts on the Horizon. She is currently a directing apprentice with PlayGround Chicago for the 2025–26 season. A graduate of Northwestern University, Rachel recently directed the 82nd Annual Dolphin Show, the largest student-produced musical in the country.

KAELI MENO (Mukashi Mukashi), they/she, is a queer and Chamorro theater professional. Kaeli has assistant directed on the Thanksgiving Play (Steppenwolf) She has also previously worked on Emma with First Folio Theater, That Long Damn Dark, Drowning Girls, and many more with the University of Alaska Anchorage.They graduated with a dual degree in History and Theatre from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2020.

LYDIA R DIAMOND (Mission Improbable), She/her, Lydia R. Diamond is an award-winning playwright known for works such as Stick Fly, Smart People, Toni Stone, The Bluest Eye, and Voyeurs de Venus. Her plays have been produced at major theaters, including the Huntington Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Writers Theatre, and the Roundabout Theatre Company. Diamond has received many honors, including the Horton Foote Playwriting Award and the Kesselring Prize. She has also written for television networks including NBC, HBO, Hulu, and Showtime. She currently teaches playwriting at the University of Illinois-Chicago and serves on the Dramatists Guild Legal Defense Fund Board.

RASHAAD BOND (Child, Come Home), he/him, is a Chicago based actor, director, and producer. He moved to Chicago from Albuquerque, New Mexico in the summer of 2019. In Albuquerque, Rashaad founded and served as the artistic director for Middle Ground Theatre Company, a company dedicated to giving opportunities to those in the community that were often neglected. He holds a BA in Theatre from the University of New Mexico. He holds a deep passion for developing stories that highlight the lived experiences of people of color. His work has afforded him the opportunity to collaborate with numerous theatre organizations across the Chicagoland area.

BRAEDYN YOUNGBERG (Sheherezade’s Voice), he/him, is thrilled to be returning to PlayGround-Chicago and support 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.

PRODUCTION & STAFF

JIM KLEINMANN (Artistic Director & Co-Founder), he/him, co-founded PlayGround in 1994, along with playwright Brighde Mullins and director Denise Shama, and has served as Artistic Director since 1996. For PlayGround, he has provided artistic and administrative leadership for the past twenty-eight seasons, developing PlayGround’s unique array of new playwright and new play incubator programs, including Monday Night PlayGround, the PlayGround Festival of New Works, the full-length play Commissioning Initiative, the New Play Production Fund, Potrero Stage: PlayGround Center for New Plays, and most recently the Innovator Incubator. For PlayGround, he has directed more than one hundred short and full-length plays, including works by Garret Jon Groenveld, Aaron Loeb, Geetha Reddy, Lauren Yee, Katie May, and many others. Recent directing and dramaturgy credits include David Steele’s Vignettes on Love and Ruben Grijalva’s Value Over Replacement. He is a veteran arts administrator with more than thirty years of experience, including stints leading Traveling Jewish Theatre, Smuin Ballet and Berkeley Symphony, and received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

CHARLIE LEVINSON (Stage Manager), they/she, is excited to be stage managing for PlayGround Chicago once again! Credits include: Hamlet 50/50 (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival); The Magic Flute, Emperor of Atlantis, Hansel and Gretel (Northwestern Opera); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Theo Ubique); Murder for Two, Oliver!, The Mousetrap, and Private Lives (The Winnipesaukee Playhouse), Three Musketeers, Antigone, The Ghost Tour: Staged Reading, Twelfth Night, and Where Did We Sit On The Bus? (Cleveland Play House); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Saint Joan, and Shakespeare in Love (Ohio Shakespeare Festival).

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.

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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 January 1, 2025 & January 25, 2026.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Art Space Development Corporation • Berkeley Civic Arts • Berlanti Family Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Office of the Small Business Advocate • Fleishhacker Foundation • Grants For The Arts • KFF • Koret Foundation • LA County Arts Commission • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • National Endowment of the Arts • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • New York State Council on the Arts • News Corp • NIAC • Nvidia • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Ronald Whittier Family Foundation • Rye Financial Services • SF Shines • The Shubert Foundation • State Compensation Insurance Fund

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Emilie & Gordon Brooks, Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Keith Goldstein & Donna Warrington, Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman, Jackie Kubicka, Craig Moody, Darryl Wilburn

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Randy Adams, John Gilman, Regina Guggenheim, Kathryn Hecht, Nitin Nitin & Vasugi Kailasam, Jessica June Rowe, Christian Wilburn, Janine Wilburn, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Jahnavi Alyssa, Linda Amayo-Hassan, Meriko Borogove, Anne Brady, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Sheila Collins, Jediah Craig, Elizabeth Dudak, Jessica Forbess, David Goldman, Greg Gorel, Gina & Steve Harris, Uma Incrocci, Jonathan Josephson, Linda Kremer, Tobi Marcus, Rebecca Martinez, Bram McGinnis, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Kendall Phillips, Evelyn J Pine & Doug Peckler, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Arthur Rock & Toni Rembe Rock, Kathryn Ryan, Miyoko Sakatani, Diane Sampson, Sanjit Sengupta, Kurt Taylor, William C. Thompson, Jeffrey Trescott, Hechale Productions

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Tanvi Agrawal, Ben Cain, Lydia R. Diamond, Leon Goertzen, Philip Gotanda & Diane Takei, Toby Inoue, Paul & Pam Kleinmann, Margery Kreitman, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Jenny Rand, Cindy & Chris Redburn, John Ruskin, Kitt Saginor, Mercedes Segesvary, Jerome Solberg

PATRON ($250-$499)

Linda Ayres-Frederick / Phoenix Arts Association Theatre, Ruth Brayton, Marilyn Cooper, Clint Fleener, Alex Loddengaard, Alan Maass, Tobi Marcus, Stephanie Prentice & David Haines, George Rose, Mark Sherstinsky, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Mary Lou Torre, Robin Wimsatt, Maury Zeff

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Sharon Baldwin, Deepanshu Dutta, Krystyna Finlayson, Clint Fleener, Patience Haggin, Abbe Kalos, Karen Levesque, Pam Mackinnon, Linda Marks, Jack Needleman, Karen Reaume, Katja Rivera, Nancy Smith, Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, Christina Velasco, Matt W Wills, Susannah Wise

To contribute to PlayGround, visit https://playground-ch.org/contribute or contact PlayGround Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org or by phone at (833) 992-6677.

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PLAYGROUND-CHICAGO WRITERS POOL

Daniel Arzola, Siah Berlatsky, Andrea Berting, Jessie Bond, Anne Brady, Rachel Chin, Mikayla De Guzman, Kimberly Dixon-Mays, Betsy Dudak,Liz Haas, Dana Hall, James Hayakawa, Toby Inoue, Arti Ishak, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Jerluane Jenkins, Jessica Johnson, alfonzo kahlil, Juliet Kang Huneke, Alex Kingsley, Alan Maass, Sydney MacGilvray, Shail Modi, J.S. Puller, Shannon Pritchard, Jay Rehak, Matt Schutz, Katherine Swan.

PLAYGROUND-CHICAGO COMPANY

Manny Buckley, Valerie Butler-Newbern, Devin Christor, Andrea Conway-Diaz, Yvette Corrine, Lynda Cortez, Vivian Delgadillo, Spencer Diedrick, Eileen Dixon, Sheri Flanders, Skylar Frishman, Ashley Graham, Scott Gryder, Charlotte Harris, Carmia Imani, Hannah Lynn Kato, Benjamin Kelly, Charlie Levinson, Beau Malone, Kaeli Meno, Paige Mesina, Ilsa Morales, Alka Nayyar, Leanna Oliveira, Dakota Pariset, Kendall Phillips, Shariba Rivers, Diana Simonzadeh, Brooke-Erin Smith, Peter Stielstra, Tyler Struble, William C. Thompson, Kezia Waters, Karla Wren, Braedyn Youngberg, Jordan Zelvin.

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Devin Christor, Executive Producer 
Leanna Oliveira, Associate Producer 
Brooke-Erin Smith, Associate Producer 
Karissa Murrell Myers, Casting Director 
Donna Fondjo, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Jordan Don, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Juliana Morgado Brito, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 
Devin Cunningham, 2025-26 Producing Fellow 

 

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