PlayGround-NY presents Season 2

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

Topic: “IN DISGUISE”
October 24th, 2022 7pm ET
Vimeo Live Simulcast & On Demand

As You Like It Actually
By Leela Velautham
Directed by Tessa Corrie
Bill/ Willa ………..…Sarah Guilbault
Jack……………….Sergio Mauritz Ang

Bugs Beat Back
By Barry Eitel
Directed by Abigail Rosen
Frankie…………….…..….BW Gonzalez
Jex……….………………..Andrew Sellon
Les……….……………..…..….Tyler Kent
Eli……….……………Nikhaar Kishnani

Skin Deep
By Natalie Sacks
Directed by Nathaniel P. Claridad
Ella……….……….,..……..Julia Crowley
Dr. Bernstein….….Cynthia Granville
Gemma..Danette Sheppard-Vaughn

Soon to Rot
By Jacob Marx Rice
Directed by Mary Hodges
Achilles……………..……..Nick Sholley
The Woman………..……Trinity Mikel

Jung
By Matthew Park
Directed by Kalina Ko
Miya Yang……..MeeWha Alana Lee
Julie Williams………..………Jully Lee

Delta Drag
By Gaven D. Trinidad
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Agent…………………Enormvs Muñoz
Chanel…..………..Alex Chester-Iwata
Harvard…………Sergio Mauritz Ang
TJ Maxxxipad……..Enormvs Muñoz

Stage Manager – Sarah Gasser
Visual Design Consultant – Colin Johnson

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-ny.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=168 (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 next 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-NY acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Munsee Lanape, the original inhabitants of the territory colonially known as the five burroughs of New York City. As the past and present Indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Munsee Lanape 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 Munsee Lanape 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 Munsee Lanape Communities and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. We honor the storytellers of the Lanape 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’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 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

MATTHEW PARK (Jung), he/they, is a Korean-American playwright. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Dramatic Writing, studying under Lucas Hnath, Brandan Jacob-Jenkins and Eduardo Machado. His thesis play Hurricane Regan was directed by Sarah Wansley and performed in NYU’s Black Box Theatre. He was Scott Rudin’s assistant during the Broadway productions of Three Tall Women and To Kill A Mockingbird. His play Plague Year was a finalist at Red Bull Theater’s 2020 Short New Play Festival and was published by Stage Rights.

JACOB MARX RICE (Soon to Rot), he/him, plays have been produced and developed at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The Finborough Theatre in London, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Flea Theater, The New Ohio, Atlantic Theatre Stage 2, and others. His play Chemistry has premiered in seven cities across three continents, and Jacob’s screenplay adaptation is currently in development with Anonymous Content. Recent prizes include the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, an Ensemble Studio Theater Sloan Commission, the Faculty Award from the NYU/Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing and the Excellence in Playwriting Award at the New York International Fringe Festival. MFA: NYU.

BARRY EITEL (Bugs Beat Back), he/him, is a San Francisco playwright and a recipient of the 2016 TITAN Award for playwrights from Theatre Bay Area. His plays have been produced in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Louisville. His play THE ICE CREAM SANDWICH INCIDENT was produced by FaultLine Theatre in August, 2016. He was the Head Writer for Boxcar Theatre’s THE SPEAKEASY, leading a team of nine to create a breathing novel set in a Prohibition-era speakeasy. He was the Fall 2014 Artist-in-Residence at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, where he created THE EXPLORERS: A SHIPWRECKED PLAY, an interactive play for young audiences. His short plays have been produced across the country and have been published by Smith & Kraus. www.BarryEitel.com.

NATALIE SACKS (Skin Deep) is a Brooklyn-based playwright specializing in historical and sci-fi theater. Her play, THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE CLASS OF 1902 OF WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESENT, “AS YOU LIKE IT,” is a finalist for American Shakespeare Center’s (indefinitely postponed) 2021 Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries competition. Other plays include INVASIVE SPECIES (Benchmark Theatre), HEY SEXY: AN ENVIRONMENTAL PARABLE (The Bechdel Group), UNTIL WE GET IT RIGHT (semifinalist, Detroit New Works Festival), SHOOTING IN THE DARK (Queen Mary Theatre Company), 50 METERS (The Rude Mechanicals), THE QUEEN OF IRELAND (Turn to Flesh Productions), LOVING GRANDMA JEAN (The Bechdel Group), and SUSCEPTIBLE TO FIRE (The Dirty Blondes). Natalie is an inaugural member of the Playground-NY Writers Pool.

GAVEN D. TRINIDAD (Delta Drag), they/he/siya, is a Filipinx American director-dramaturg-playwright. Their work examines the intersections of social justice, race, immigration, queerness, mental health, and community. They have worked as an artist and/or as an administrator at 2nd Stage, The Juilliard Drama Division, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, IAMA Theatre, and National Queer Theater. TCG 2021 Rising Leaders of Color; Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab 22-23; New York Theatre Workshop’s Community Engagement Associate and Leviathan Lab’s dramaturg-in-residence. They live with Bipolar Disorder 1, and they advocate for more empathetic representations and practices in regard to mental health and care on and off-stage. www.gaventrinidadtheatre.com

LEELA VELAUTHAM (As You Like It Actually), she/her, originally from the UK, is a post-doctoral researcher studying carbon neutrality targets and decarbonization pathways. She participated in Playground SF’s Playwright Residency Program (2020-21), has been featured in the Best of Playground SF 24 and 25 and the best of Playground NY, is a two-time semi-finalist of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and won the University of Oxford’s New Writing Festival in 2011 for her play ‘Schroedinger’s Hat’. She is currently a member of the New Perspectives Theatre Company’s 2022 Full-Length Lab.

ACTORS

SERGIO MAURITZ ANG (As You Like It Actually, “Jack”; Delta Drag, “Harvard”), he/they, is a NYC bred and based Queer creative, actor and teacher originally from Manila Philippines. A former Undocumented Immigrant and DACA Recipient. New York: Colman Domingo’s The Brother[s] (Out of the Box Theatrics), Joker (National Queer Theater), Anna in the Tropics (The Gallery Players), Summertime (Between Two Boroughs) Regional: Song of Me (Stages Houston), Flowers of Hawaii (Chautauqua Theatre Company) From Number to Name (East West Players), Yoga Play, The Skin of Our Teeth, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Ragtime (PlayMakers Rep), Bruise & Thorn (PlayPenn), Peter and the Starcatcher (Kitchen Theatre Company), Mañanas de Abril y Mayo (Connecticut Free Shakespeare). MFA Candidate: UNC Chapel Hill. BFA Acting: Brooklyn College. Insta: yoizsergyo. www.sergiomauritzang.com

ALEX CHESTER-IWATA (Delta Drag, “Chester”), she/her, is an Actor and the Editor-in-Chief of Mixed Asian Media – A digital media outlet for mixed APIs, recognized by the Nielsen Consumer Report on Asian Americans. She is one of the 50 Unsung Hero’s of Asian Hustle Network. Some acting credits include: Broadway’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” Gillian in “This Space Between Us” Off Broadway’s Keen Company. TV credits include: “New Amsterdam,” “The Good Fight,” and “The Closer.” National Commercials include: Samsung, Popeyes, UPS, and H&M. Alex graduated with Honors and the Dean’s Award in May 2021 with her BA through St. Mary’s LEAP Program. @AlexFChester

JULIA CROWLEY (Skin Deep, “Ella”), she/her, s a New York City based actress and creator. Most recently she was performing with Thrown Stone Theater Company, starring as Charlotte in the New England premier of Hysterical! and Jamie in Athena. Favorite past collaborations include performing with: Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective, Waterhouse Collective, and Belladonna Shakespeare Company. Julia wrote and voiced the audio piece A Plant Play, produced by First Kiss Theatre. She’s a graduate of Vermont’s Bennington College where she studied drama and modern dance. She can be seen in the films To Be In Love (2021), Orphans (2020), and Compersion (2019).

SARAH GUILBAULT (As You Like It Actually, “Bill/Willa”), she/they, is a writer and performer currently living in Harlem. Their work focuses on uncanny encounters, diffusions of queer intimacies, laughter and grief. She is a proud Playground New York company member.

BW GONZALES (Bugs Beat Back, “Frankie”), has worked for the following theatre companies: AmericanRepertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Huntington Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Denver Theatre
Center, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, LA Women’s Shakespeare, and Center Repertory Theatre. At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ms. Gonzalez performed such notable roles as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Masha in The Three Sisters, Cassandra in Trojan Women, Ariel in The Tempest, and Good Person of Szechuan as Shen Te/Shui Ta. Other plays include, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Uncle Vanya, Restoration, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and Titus Andronicus.

CYNTHIA GRANVILLE (Skin Deep, “Dr. Bernstein”), she/her, favorite NY and regional stage credits include The Clean House; The Quality of Life (NY premiere); Love Letters; Talley’s Folly; countless world premieres. Onscreen credits include Onion News Network, High Maintenance, the title role in The Fisherman’s Wife (Best Actress, Comicpalooza), and L’Odge d’Oor or all things with eyes must sleep opening Oct. 28 at Village East by Angelika. Also a director and filmmaker, Cynthia most recently directed and edited the webseries Mis(s)Communication and the premiere of Barry Malawer’s Michael and George for ANDTheatre’s Eclectic Evening: BRIEFS opening Oct 28. She studies with Austin Pendleton. AEA SAG-AFTRA Cynthiagranville.com

TYLER KENT (Bugs Beat Back, “Les”), he/him, has been a PlayGround collaborator on both coasts. Credits include Berkeley Rep, The Metropolitan Playhouse, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Kansas City Rep, Shotgun Players, and others. Tyler is also an audiobook narrator and a regular host at Marie’s Crisis in NY’s West Village. MFA The Old Golbe / USD; BA Whitman College.

MEEWHA ALANA LEE (Jung, “Miya Yang”), she/her, is an actor whose journey began when her son, Alan, a film student left this world. Acting has helped sustain her from the demise of grief. She is a member of AEA and SAG AFTRA. She has appeared in Off-Broadway plays, the award-winning short films, feature films like UMMA, GREAT DIVIDE and TV shows, AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS, THE CHAIR, and RETREAT. Being an actor gives her the opportunity to tell the stories of immigrants and women, and themes relating to mental illness and racism, all issues she has lived through.

ENORMVS MUÑOZ (Delta Drag, “Agent”/”TJ Maxxxipad”), he/him, is an actor, dancer, director, writer, burlesque performer, and clown who splits his time between NYC, California, and Hawaiʻi.

NIKHAAR KISHNANI (Bugs Beat Back, “Eli”), she/her, Nikhaar Kishnani Off-Off Broadway: Veil’d at Astoria Performing Arts Center. Regional Theatre: Queen at Geva Theatre Centre, A Doll’s House Part 2 at Actors Theatre Louisville. Film: Post-Term, Him&Her&Him. Television: Brown Nation, Code Switched, Geeta’s Guide To Moving On, Nepotism. Other Theatre: Twelfth Night at DePaul University, The Women Eat Chocolate at DePaul University, Prospero’s Storm at DePaul University, The Children’s Hour at DePaul University, The Qualms at DePaul University, The Rimers of Eldritch at Rutgers University. Additional Credits: Kishnani received her M.F.A. from The Theatre School at DePaul University. She is on house team, Octopus Queen, at Rubbish Comedy Collective.

JULLY LEE (Jung, “Julie Williams”), she/her, is making her Broadway/New York debut in KPOP The Musical, currently in previews at Circle in the Square. She is the Artistic Director of Cold Tofu, the nation’s first and longest running Asian American improv company based in Los Angeles, and a Company Member of Playground-NY as a director, performer and associate producer. Select Theatre: The Joy Luck Club (national tour), Aubergine (South Coast Repertory), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Fountain Theatre/East West Players). Select TV: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Young Sheldon,” “Jane The Virgin,” “This Is Us,” “The Fosters,” and “Veep.” jullylee.com

TRINITY MIKEL (Soon to Rot, “The Woman”), she/her, is thrilled to work with PlayGround-NY and bring new art to life. Originally from California, she studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. Trinity was last seen in Little Shop of Horrors at Mason Street Warehouse in Saugatuck, Michigan. Shoutout to Trinity’s family, friends, and everyone who was cheered her on so far.

DANETTE E. SHEPPARD, (Skin Deep, “Gemma”), she/her, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus (First Featured Female Vocalist), PIPPIN (Berthe), SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE (BJ), CHICAGO (Mama Morton), AIN’T MISBEHAVIN (Nell) – winner of Connecticut Critic’s Circle Award, SISTER ACT (Mother Superior), IN THE HEIGHTS (Abuela), THE LAST SESSION (Tryshia), BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS (Jewel), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Mary), NUNSENSE (Sister Hubert) among other roles. Glory to God! Follow Danette on IG @dazzlingdanette *Appears courtesy of Actors Equity Association

ANDREW SELLON (Bugs Beat Back, “Jex”), he/him, is best known on TV as Mr. Penn/The Ventriloquist/Scarface on Gotham. Other Film/TV: Begin Again, The Smurfs, The Blacklist, Divorce, The Good Fight, Halston. Favorite stage roles in NY and regionally: Polonius in Hamlet, The Fool in King Lear, Vanya in Vanya and Sonia…, Bazzard in Drood, Charlie in The Foreigner, Clown in The 39 Steps, and all 35 roles in I Am My Own Wife. Audiobooks: Turncoat, The Kevin Show, Rattle Man. Andrew is on the graduate creative writing faculty at Western Colorado University and University College/DU, teaching performance and playwriting. Next up: Senex in Forum. www.andrewsellon.com

NICK SHOLLEY (Soon to Rot, “Achilles”), he/him, has been happily playing on this Playground since 1998. He moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Berkshires of Massachusetts in 2020.

DIRECTORS

NATHANIEL P. CLARIDAD (Skin Deep), he/him, directing credits include work at Weathervane Theatre, Southern Rep., Imagination Stage, Two River Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Out of the Box Theatrics, the One Minute Play Festival, New York Shakespeare Exchange, Peculiar Works Project, and a Drama League Resident in 2019 & 2016. He is also co-founder of Broadway Twisted, an annual event in North Carolina benefitting NCAAN and BC/EFA. Acting credits include Here Lies Love (The Public Theater), Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History…(St. Ann’s Warehouse), numerous regional and international credits from the Kennedy Center to the Sydney Opera House.

TESSA CORRIE (As You Like It Actually), she/her, is a Queer and Latinx theater director based in the Bay Area. Her work is grounded in creating space for marginalized and underrepresented communities and narratives. She is a company member, casting associate, and this year’s Women Leaders Directing Fellow at PlayGround SF. Her credits include work at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Center REPertory Company, Palo Alto Players, Hillbarn Theatre, Pear Theatre, Shotgun Players, TheatreFirst, The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, More Más Marami Arts, Poltergeist Theatre Project, PianoFight, AmiosWest, and Our Digital Stories.

MARY HODGES (Soon to Rot), she/her, was a part of the twelve-time Tony nominated, Slave Play Broadway team as the Assistant Director to Robert O’Hara, written by Jeremy O. Harris. She was the SDCF Observer for Slave Play when it made its New York premiere at NYTW, where Mr. O’Hara was her mentor. Virtual Directing Credits: Black Motherhood & Parenting: New Play Festival (What If?…by Cynthia Grace Robinson); Fordham University Drama Department (Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes); Honor Roll! Presents: Say Their Names (Just Wanna Go Home by Michael angel Johnson); Planet Connections Presents: Lip Service (Washington Montessori by Carmen Lobue); Acting Theatre Credits: Lehman Trilogy Broadway; Harlem Shakespeare Festival; HERE Arts Center; Sheen Center; Florida Repertory Theatre; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; TV Credits: It’s Bruno (Netflix); Wu-tang Clan: An American Saga (Hulu); Blue Bloods (CBS); Law & Order: SVU *Judge Anita Wright recurring (NBC). Mary is a proud parent to Amri who is in the 6th grade. Mary is an SDC Associate Member and proud members of SAG-AFTRA & AEA.

JIM KLEINMANN (Delta Drag; Artistic Director), 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, and 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.

KALINA KO (Jung, Associate Producer), she/her, is a Cantonese-American theater director, dramaturg, and literary administrator based in NYC. She is interested in the radical connection and community building of storytelling. Past experience includes directing Paige Conway’s Tag (drafted) and Sophie Poole’s Ethanol (NOMADS), assisting Will Detlefsen on T. Adamson’s The Straights (The JACK, Brooklyn), and script assisting Hansol Jung on Wolf Play (Soho Rep) and Amy Jo Jackson on Hatchetation (National Music Theater Conference). 

ABIGAIL ROSEN (Bugs Beat Back), she/her, s a director and producer, and a company member at Playground-NY. Favorite directing credits include: This is Beauty (Playground-NY), All Shook Up (All Student Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (Washington University). She also works as a grant writer for People’s Theatre Project in uptown NYC.

PRODUCTION

SARAH GASSER (Stage Manager) joined PlayGround in 2017 and has staged managed for the Monday Night PlayGround series and PlayGround Festival. She stagemanages for companies around the Bay Area, including Brava and Bay Area Children’s Theatre. In her administrative capacities, she assists with PlayGround’s marketing, social media, communications, and website, as well as serving as assistant to the Artistic Director.

PLAYGROUND-NY is the second 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’ and now New York’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.

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 24, 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-NY, visit https://playground-ny.org/contribute or contact PlayGround Associate Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org or by phone at (415) 992-6677.

PLAYGROUND-NY WRITERS POOL

Sam Affoumado, Momo Akashi, Anthony Anello, Andy Boyd, Christin Cato, Todd Cerveris, Jayne Deely, Josh Drimmer, Barry Eitel, Bailey Elis, Jack Feldstein, Kari Floren, Ruth Geye, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Stanley Hathaway, Rachel Herron, David Hilder, Rebecca Kane, Elizabeth Lee, Dani Nelson, Matthew Park, Alexander Perez, Jacob Rice, Rachael Richman, Kathryn Ryan, Natalie Sacks, Louise Schwarz, Marcus Scott, Riley Tollen, Gaven Trinidad, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Charles Velasquez-Witosky, Leela Velautham, Rhys Washington, Maggie Wilson

PRODUCTION & STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Kalina Ko, Associate Producer 
Jully Lee, Associate Producer 
Abigail Rosen, Associate Producer 
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager 
Kelsey Bray, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice
Laith Zuaiter, 2022-23 Directing Apprentice

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