February 3rd Monday Night PlayGround-Chicago Playbill

PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 3
in association with Theater Wit

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

Topic: “The Shakespeare Sequels”
February 3, 2025 7pm CT
Theater Wit & 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 2024-25 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, 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, 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!

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BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

MATT SCHULTZ (A Tale of Such Woe), he/him, is a playwright and actor currently based in Chicago. His play .PDF Preferred was included in PlayGround-Chicago’s Best of Chicago production. 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.

ALAN MAASS (The Serpent’s Tooth), he/him, is a journalist and editor whose writing has appeared at The Nation, Jacobin, the Chicago Reader, and other publications. He is currently communications director for the Rutgers University faculty and graduate workers union. As a playwright, he is a first-time caller, long-time listener. This is his first play selected for PlayGround.

RACHEL LINTON (Honeymoon), she/her, is a playwright, poet, and law student at the University of Chicago. This is her first year in the PlayGround Writer’s Pool. Her plays has been produced in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Chicago. Her latest work, a full-length musical entitled Find the Beginning, had its first workshop reading at the University of Chicago last year. You can learn more at rachellinton.com

TOBY INOUE (The Shrew Strikes Back), she/her, is an Evanston playwright who writes about how the glass is half empty *and* half full. A staged reading of her full length play KEEP IT LIGHT was part of Redtwist Theatre’s 2024 Twisted PlayFest in Chicago. Her short plays GAMAN and 23 AND ME AND ME AND ME (People’s Choice Award, Jan 2025) have also been included in the 2024-25 PlayGround-Chicago Monday nights series. Recent productions of other short plays include BOOTY CALL (One Night Stand Theater, CO, Feb 2025); THE GETTING’S GOOD (Surfside Playhouse Readers Theater, FL, Sept 2024); and BEST FUNDAY FRIEND (North Park Playwright’s 2023 festival CA). IG: @toby.inoue; https://wabi-sa.com

LIZ HAAS (Being Cesario), they/she is a queer, mixed-race, Taiwanese/Chinese and German American playwright based in Chicago. Their play A Home Education was featured in the play reading series Re/Generation Studio at About Face Theatre, and they were a member of the devising ensemble for Still/Here at Free Street Theater. Liz is a member of the Western Massachusetts-based collective Theater Between Addresses. Liz received a bachelor of arts in history from Smith College. Outside of the theater, Liz works in nonprofit development and enjoys speculative fiction.

ANA F DALIPI (Iago), she/her, likes to read, She has a lazy cat, and she enjoys writing fantasy.

ACTORS

VALERIE BUTLER-NEWBERN (The Shrew Strikes Back, “Kate”) she/her, is happily returning to PlayGround-Chicago to tell another story as Kate in The Shrew Strikes Back by Toby Inoue. A few of her PlayGround-Chicago credits include although not limited to Mom in Are You Scared Of The Dark by Katherine Swan, Ida Lewis in the Sea and its Keeper by Zach Barr and Boomer in Stay Humble by Ian Michael Minh. Val is a Chicago based actor who loves bringing characters to life on stage and screen.

AMANDA DE PINTO (A Tale of Such Woe, “Prince”) she/her, Amanda DePinto is a Chicago-based actor with a BFA in Acting from The Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. She is passionate about work that empowers and uplifts women and the queer community. Amanda is so excited to be a part of sharing new work with PlayGround-Chicago. Originally a Jersey girl, she is still on the hunt for the best bagel in the city. IG: @amanda.depinto, amandadepinto.com

TIEMEN GODALDT (The Serpent’s Tooth, “Eddie”),he/him, is a new transplant to the Chicago scene, hailing from South Bend, Indiana. He was last seen in This Bitter Earth at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater and is looking forward to more new experiences within the Chicago Theatre community. When he’s not on stage he is doing puzzles with his partner Monica and their cats.

CARMIA IMANI (Being Cesario, “Viola”), she/her, is a Chicago-based theatre artist. Her regional acting credits include: Field of Flesh (Leisure), brother sister cyborg space (u/s) (Raven Theatre), Skeleton Crew, Death of a Salesman (The Black Rep), and Much Ado About Nothing (u/s) (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Carmia co-produced and wrote a poetry film about police brutality and racism, “AmeriKKKa,” which won Best Film at the Hoosier Films Annual Festival in 2021. She is Company Member with PlayGround-Chicago and holds a BFA in Acting from Ball State University. You can connect with Carmia on social media @carmiaimani.

RONNIE LYALL (Being Cesario, “Sebastian”), he/him. This is Ronnie’s second time performing with PlayGround and he is very excited to work with them again. Ronnie would like to thank everyone in his life that offered him constant love and support, and of course the audience that comes to see the shows! Follow Ronnie on Instagram @ronniedlyall and @ronnielyall on TikTok.

 

BEAU MALONE (The Serpent’s Tooth, “Learstone”), he/they, is a Chicago-based theatremaker hailing from different places.

 

 

 

DINA MONK (Honeymoon, “Helena”; A Tale of Such Woe, “Nurse”), she/her is thrilled to join PlayGround Chicago for the first time! She recently returned from her second year performing in A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Recent Chicago credits include Macbeth with Back Room Shakespeare Project, Love Song at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Private Lives at Raven Theatre, and several readings with The Shakespeare Project of Chicago. She’s a born and raised Chicagoan, and holds a BFA in Acting from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. When not onstage, she’s a Standardized Patient at several hospitals in town. For more info on her past work, visit dinamonk.com.

LISA MORALES (A Serpent’s Tooth, “The Fool”), she/her, is a Chicago-based actress, comedian, and writer with a background in improv, sketch comedy, and live performance. A graduate of The Second City’s Improv and Conservatory programs, she performs regularly at PlayGround Theater and Otherworld Theatre.

 

FRANK NIMS  (The Shrew Strikes Back, “Petruchio”), Trained at Acting Studio Chicago, Actors Gymnasium, Second City Chicago. 

 

 

EVAN OZER (Honeymoon, “Demetrius”), he/they, is a Jewish actor from New York. Recent theater credits include Monster (The Creature) and Lysistrata (Magistrate) at DePaul University and Hamlet (Hamlet) at The University of Oxford. Recent film credits include MORE (Chicago Int’l Film Fest) and the NY Emmy-nominated production of Rising Stars (Solo Monologue). In addition to acting, Evan assistant directed the Jeff Award-Winning World Premier of Gods and Monsters and is the Founder/Executive Producer of The Reels Series. Evan is proud to be a LaGuardia High School Drama Graduate (Spirit Award Winner), a National YoungArts Winner in Theater, and a Roger Reese Excellence in Solo Performance Winner. IG @evanozer

JORGE SALAS (The Shrew Strikes Back, “Hortensio”), he/him, is a Chicago-based actor excited to be part of PlayGround-Chicago for the first time! His recent stage credits include: Accidental Election of an Anarchist (Athenaeum Theatre), La Ronde (Meat Machine Theatre), The Language Archive, and Jeff nominated, Buried Child (AstonRep). Recent Film/TV work includes: Deli Boys on hulu, and BAM (Broke Ass MotherF*ckers) on Prime. He works in technology by day, plays soccer, and lives for foodie orgasms. Thank you for supporting live theatre!

PETER STIELSTRA (Iago, “Iago”), he/him, originally from San Francisco, is a Chicago based actor and singer, thrilled to be returning to PlayGround-Chicago. Favorite Chicagoland credits include Alice by Heart (Kokandy Productions), The Threepenny Opera (Theo Ubique), and Girlfriend (PrideArts). He is a proud company member of PlayGround-Chicago, glad to be playing again in his second season.

 

WILLIAM C. THOMPSON (A Tale of Such Woe, “Capulet”), he/him,  has worked on stage, film, radio, television, & street theatre since he was sixteen. Since moving to Chicago in 2016, he has appeared in Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Netflix’s Easy, and two major motion pictures, as well as numerous short films. He is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association, and is represented by The Rock Talent Agency. He is delighted to be a PlayGround-Chicago Company member.

BRAEDYN YOUNGBERG (A Tale of Such Woe, “Laurence”; Iago, “Unnamed Guard”), 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 (Iago, “Cassio”), she/her, is a Chicago teaching artist and proud company member of PlayGround-Chicago with a love of improv, collaboration, and storytelling. Some of her favorite Chicago credits include THE TALE OF THE WHALE (NTYA), WAKE UP, BROTHER BEAR! (NTYA), ACROSS THE SAND: A PASSOVER THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE (NTYA), HERSHEL AND THE HANUKKAH GOBLINS (Strawdog Theatre Company), FAILURE: A LOVE STORY (Oil Lamp Theater), TREASURE ISLAND (Oil Lamp Theater), CHICAGO WOMEN’S FUNNY FESTIVAL (Stage 773), and various comedy shows at The Second City, The Annoyance Theatre & Bar, and iO Theater where she is a company member of Malarkey Comedy performing in COMEDYSPORTZ, IMPROVISED DCOM, and TWO BIRDS 1 SCONE every Thursday-Saturday. She’s thrilled to be back with PlayGround-Chicago and supporting free and accessible theatre.

 

DIRECTORS

KAELI MENO (A Tale of Such Woe), 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.

PAIGE MESINA (Being Cesario), she/her, earned her Bachelor’s degree in Theatre from the University of Central Florida and her Master’s Degree in Directing at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. After teaching and directing for 8 years in South Florida, she moved to Chicago to pursue a career in theatre. Some of her directing credits include: The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould (Haven), She Kills Monsters YA Edition, Antigone, Medea, Peter & the Starcatcher, Much Ado About Nothing (Lake Worth Playhouse), A Christmas Story (Lake Worth Playhouse), Mycelium (PlayGround-Chicago), Raisin Girls (PlayGround-Chicago), Not Unusual (PlayGround-Chicago), Ellison Grants a Wish (PlayGround-Chicago).

EMILY NEWMARK (The Shrew Strikes Back), she/her, is a Chicago-based director and choreographer with a passion for developing new work. Her directing credits include This Is Not The Reunion (Milwaukee Rep Studios), Retold:The Musical, Next to Normal, The Tempest, Oklahoma!, and Triplets (Oberlin College). She recently made her filmmaking debut with her short film Kintsugi, which won the Best Cinematography Award at Prague Film School. As an assistant director, Emily has worked on both world premieres—The Heart Sellers, The Nativity Variations, and The Greatest Love for Whitney (Milwaukee Repertory), The Totality of All Things (Redtwist Theatre)—and classic works, including Much Ado About Nothing (Milwaukee Repertory) and Measure for Measure (Oberlin Shakes Fest). Emily graduated from Oberlin College with degrees in Theater and Psychology and received a directing certification from Prague Film School. She is thrilled to be joining PlayGround for the first time this evening!

LEANNA OLIVEIRA (Honeymoon), she/here, earned her Bachelor’s degree in Theatre from the University of Central Florida and her Master’s Degree in Directing at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. After teaching and directing for 8 years in South Florida, she moved to Chicago to pursue a career in theatre. Some of her recent directing credits include: The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould (Haven), She Kills Monsters YA Edition, Antigone, Medea, Peter & the Starcatcher, Much Ado About Nothing (Lake Worth Playhouse), A Christmas Story (Lake Worth Playhouse), Mycelium (PlayGround-Chicago), Raisin Girls (PlayGround-Chicago), Not Unusual (PlayGround-Chicago), Ellison Grants a Wish (PlayGround-Chicago).

TYLER STRUBLE (Iago), he/they, is a director, dramaturg and producer. Most recently they directed the U.K. premiere of I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire Off-West End at London’s Southwark Playhouse and its previous world premiere in New York City Off-Broadway at Nancy Manocharien’s the cell theatre. Other credits include Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY), dramaturg for What The Consititution Means to Me (Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY), Crossing (Pocket Theatre VR, Chicago, IL), SERVICE/PLAY (Facility Theatre, Chicago, IL). www.tylerstruble.com

JOEL WILLISON (The Serpent’s Tooth), he/him, is the Artistic Director for Pocket Theatre V.R., Co-founding Artistic Producer of Freshly Brewed, Founder of inc., a company member of PlayGround-Chicago, a member of For The Group Chicago, and was selected for Directors Haven 6 in 2023. Recent credits include Assistant Directing for Mikael Burke for Tambo and Bones, The Runaways Lab Theater, Playground – Chicago, Haven, Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble, Stage Left Theatre, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, and Virtual Theatre Collaboration. In his free time, catch Joel on the Frisbee field, where he plays for Chicago’s professional Ultimate Frisbee Team: The Chicago Union.

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.

DEVIN CHRISTOR (Executive Producer), 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).

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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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 December 1, 2023 & December 2, 2024.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • Art Space Development Corporation • Avenue Greenlight • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • California Humanities • California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program • Creative Capacity Fund • Disney • Grants For The Arts • KFF • Koret Foundation • LA County Arts Commission • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • Rock Paper Scissors Landscape Inc. • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Paul Haahr, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, John H. Gilman, Sam Latham, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Just Play Productions, Linda Kremer, Ronald Whittier Family Foundation, Daniele Nathanson , Nitin, Molly Noble and Bob Guilbault, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, John J. Ruskin, Tom Swift, Malachy Walsh and Heather Robison, Janine Wilburn, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Phoenix Theatre SF, Hillary DeMartino, Paulette Donsavage, Regina S. Guggenheim, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Diane Leonard, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Dr. Gary W. London, Diane Sampson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer, Jeffrey Trescott, Anonymous

PATRON ($250-$499)

Nina Ball & Jon Tracy, Chris and Cindy Redburn, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Christian Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (3)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Mary E. Baird, Ms. Portia F. Bock, Cass Brayton, Sheila Collins, Joyce Dieda, Clint Fleener, Michael Fried, Mrs. Judith Lynn Garcia, Anonymous, Gina Harris, Ms. Sharlene Hartman, Mr. Stanley William Hathaway, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Ms. Mildred Inez Lewis, Anonymous, Paris McCarthy, Kimberly Ridgeway, Ms. Jessica Rofé, Margo Rofé, Carolina Rojas Moretti, Katie Ryan, Louel Senores, Alex M. Shafer, Christine Sheppard, Stan Stone, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Scott Lebus & Susannah Wise

To contribute to PlayGround, visit https://playground-ch.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-CHICAGO WRITERS POOL

Daniel Arzola, Kirsten Baity, Zach Barr, Henry Bender, Siah Berlatsky, Kevin Blair, Gabriella Bonamici, Jessie Bond, Anne Brady, Julie Campbell, Donaldson Cardenas, Ana Dalipi, Mikayla De Guzman, Rachel DuBose, Betsy Dudak, Liz Haas, Dana Hall, Toby Inoue, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Jerluane Jenkins, alfonzo kahlil, Beth Kander, Juliet Kang Huneke, Alex Kinglsey, Rachel Linton, Alan Maass, Marnie Monogue, Lani Montreal, Dakota Pariset, Mary Parisoe, Andrew Piechota, Jessica Puller, Jay Rehak, Keegon Schuett, Matt, Schutz, Katherine Swan.

PLAYGROUND-CHICAGO COMPANY

Brian Balcom, Devin Christor, Spencer Ryan Diedrick, Sheri Flanders, Ashley Graham, Scott Gryder, Charlotte Harris, Carmia Imani, Hannah Lynn Kato, Benjamin Kelly, Alka Nayyar, Leanna Oliveira, Dakota Pariset, Karla Rennhofer, Brooke-Erin Smith, Yiwen Wu, Braedyn Youngberg, Jordan Zelvin

PLAYGROUND STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Devin Christor, Executive Producer
Brooke-Erin Smith, Associate Producer
Leanna Oliveira, Associate Producer
Maria Arreola, Casting Associate
Joey Reyes, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Amal Salem, 2024-25 Producing Fellow

 

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