PlayGround-NY presents Season 5

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

“Bedtime Stories”
March 9, 2026 7pm ET
The Producers Club & Vimeo Live Simulcast

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 boroughs 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.

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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.

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The Monster Moves On
by Sio Hornbuckle
directed by Jamey Miller
Tabitha……………..Victoria Fanning
Junie………………..Betsy Rosen
Monster………………..Willow Lautenberg

Back Pay
by Taylor A. Blackman
directed by Abigail Rosen
Tooth Fairy………Julia Crowley
Jeremy………………..George Harris
Frank…………………Thomas Grube

Duckling
by Maisa Chiang
directed by Jully Lee
Narrator………………..Eli Wassertzug
Mother/Duckling………………..Lennox T. Duong
Father/Child/College Guy…………………Mark Peters

The Witch, the Wolf, the Dragon, and the Boy
by Ash
directed by Sarah Guilbault
The Witch/Evelyn………………..Stephanie Jean Toussaint
The Wolf/Elias………………..Alex Moggridge
Freddy………………..Merlin McCormick

Freddie Fartfinger Saves the Day
by Bram Hartman
directed by Charlie Rodriguez
Drew………………..Paris Ruiz
Grandma………………..Desirée Baxter

Ghost Light/The Light that Waits
by Melvin Ningyao Yen
directed by Jackson Bradshaw
Child………………..Addison Hinojosa
Ghost Light…………………..Jackie Rivera

Stage Managers – Sarah Gasser, Jimmy Dewhurst and Liz Ombrelalro

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 a Partner Organization of the National New Play Network (NNPN).

PlayGround-NY is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

ASH (The Witch, the Wolf, the Dragon, and the Boy), they/she, is an active composer, choral arranger, playwright, songwriter, sound designer, and music director for choir and theatre. As a writer, she is currently developing both musicals and plays, and she recently participated in the National Queer Theater 2025 Criminal Queerness Studio, Fresh Binder Spring 2025 Writer’s Cohort, and The Workshop Theatre’s Fall 2025 Writers’ Intensive. Ash is the former artistic director of Transpose PDX, and her choral work has been performed globally. As a queer, non-binary, Persian, and hard-of-hearing artist, they value storytelling as a means of connection, revelation, and celebration. Portland raised, NYC-based. MusicByAsh.com

TAYLOR A. BLACKMAN (Back Pay), he/him is a writer, actor, and producer from Chicago, Illinois. His written works include To Infinity, (Alfred P. Sloan/Ensemble Studio Theatre Commission), It’s Karen, B****” (2024 Fire This Time Festival, 2024 WE/US Playwrights of the Gender Minority publishing deal under Smith & Kraus), Riverside Drive (5th Floor Theatre New Works Grant Finalist, Hi-ARTS Residency), and Two of A Pair (PlayGround-NY). He is a current Comedy Central Laugh Lab TV Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan/EST Commissionee, a Uptown Collective Renaissance Residency Fellow, and A Fire This Time Festival Fellow. As an actor, Taylor has collaborated and worked with Roundabout Theatre Company, The Movement Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Stage & Film, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Page 73, Signature Theatre, The Parsnip Ship, and others. TV/Film Credits: FBI (CBS), Raising Kanin (STARZ), Alternatino (Comedy Central). Directing Credits include Movement Director for Sweet Chariot at The Public Theatre’s Under the Radar Festival, and 48Hours in Harlem Festival.

MAISA CHIANG (Duckling), she/her, is a Chinese & Taiwanese-American writer & director based in Brooklyn, NY.

BRAM HARTMAN (Freddie Fartfinger Saves the Day), he/him, is a New York-based writer. Bram studied playwriting at The Acting Studio. His short play “Come On, Ref!” will make it’s West Coast premiere this month. He lives in Hell’s Kitchen with his fiancé and cat.

SIO HORNBUCKLE (The Monster Moves On), they/he, is a playwright and director living in Brooklyn. Their plays have been developed by November Theatre, Playwrights Foundation, and Columbia University NOMADS, and their short play EOL won Best Play at the Secret Theatre’s Act One: One Act Festival. They direct the sketch duo DUKES.

MELVIN NINGYAO YEN (Ghost Light/The Light that Waits), all pronouns, is a New York–based Taiwanese theatre producer, director, playwright, and cultural critic. A cohort member in the BIPOC Critics Lab, Melvin’s work often weaves the Buddhist philosophy of impermanence into performance, bridging theatre, photography, and academic writing. They have held fellowships at Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, and Manhattan Theatre Club; selected works include the musical Awake and the plays The Flight of Impermanence, Breakfast, and Waning Moon. Melvin publishes theatre criticism, poetry, and essays on Substack (The Ritual of Seeing). Instagram: @melvindoesntknow.

ACTORS

DESIREE BAXTER (December 11, 2001, “Nan”), she/her, is an NYC-based actor and classical singer. Roles: Countess/All’s Well That Ends Well, Parent Lear/Lear, Gertrude/ Hamlet, Ranevskya/The Cherry Orchard, Marmee/Little Women, Hope/Be a Good Little Widow and Dauber/The Cradle Will Rock. Thriving in a collective where all voices – past and present – are sought out and amplified, Desirée is an active member of Expand The Canon, uncovering and uplifting classic plays by women & underrepresented genders; and The Drawing Board, a lab for playwrights, screenwriters and actors. AEA, SAG-AFTRA, AGMA. DesireeBaxter.com

JULIA CROWLEY (Back Pay, “Tooth Fairy”), she/her, is a performer and creator based in NYC and New England. She works across mediums on stage, screen, and audio. Julia starred as Charlotte in Thrown Stone Theater’s production of Hysterical! and as Jamie in Athena. She can be seen in the indie film Artificial (2024), which premiered at the Workers Unite Film Festival at Cinema Village and won the Best Narrative award. Julia is a graduate of Bennington College, a company member of Playground-NY, and a performer with the Murder Mystery Company with American Immersion Theater.

LENNOX T. DUONG (Duckling, “Mother/Duckling”), is from Fresno, CA and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Off-Broadway: Hannah understudy for Shit. Meet. Fan. (MCC), Felicity in MIDWEST P*RN (Tent Theater), Ella in We Drift In and Out (New York Theater Festival). Sean in Hello Kitty Must Die (2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Regional: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Moth). Juilliard: Indecent (Chana), Three Sisters (Masha), Cymbeline (Imogen), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Cat), Dance Nation (Amina). (Training: Juilliard, M.F.A.)

THOMAS GRUBE (Back Pay, “Frank”), he/him, Actor, SAG-AFTRA, AEA.  thomasgrube.net

ADDISON HINOJOSA (Ghost Light/The Light That Waits, “Child”) is a New York City-based actor and singer. She was trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles as well as New York and graduated with a certificate in Music Theatre in February of 2024. Some of her past theater credits include Mandy in “Time Stands Still,” Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing,” and Olivia in “Olivia’s Invited.” She has a strong background playing both classical and contemporary roles, bringing truth to characters of all walks and sorts. Performing aside, she has a huge passion for scenic design and construction, as well as writing. For more information, you can find her at @addyhinojosaa or addisonhinojosa.com.

GEORGE HARRIS (Back Pay, “Jeremy”), he/him, is an actor living in NYC. Proudly added as a member to PlayGround-NY and a member of AEA, he has been in numerous regional productions and TV work. Past credits include Pippin, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Hairspray, and Dreamgirls. He has also appeared on Project Runway and Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It, directed by Spike Lee.

VICTORIA FANNING (The Monster Moves On, “Thabita”) is a NYC-based actor and singer. Fordham Theatre Alum. Select Credits: The Bakkhai (Agave), The Wolves (#25), Girlboss (Marlee), The Girls (Catherine). Recent Staged Readings: A High Lonesome Sound (Emmy), Mac In Cheese (Fran). Love always to Cason, her family, and friends! victoriakennedyfanning.com IG: @VictoriaKFanning

WILLOW LAUTENBERG (The Monster Moves On, “Monster”), she/her, is an actress-playwright-singer based in NYC. Off-Bway/NYC credits include: Freak Son (Chain Theatre), What It Means to Be Free (Theatre Row), The Merchant of Venice (Two Song Prods) & Spare Rib (New World Stages). Regional/Tour credits include: Shrek The Musical, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wizard of Oz & Les Misérables. Playwriting credits include: Incarcerated (NewYorkRep commission – Off-Bway reading), What It Means to Be Free (play – performed at United Solo, screenplay – finalist at the Harlem Int’l Film Fest). Resident actor for Playground-NY. Holds a BFA in Acting & a Writing Minor from Emerson College. Love & gratitude to her parents. @willowthesingingtree

MERLIN MCCORMICK (The Witch, the Wolf, the Dragon, and the Boy, “Freddy”), (he/they), is an actor, singer, dancer, and screenwriter from the suburbs of Wake Forest, NC, but he is simply whatever he needs to be to tell a story. They love dancing, stunting on hoes with a clean fit, Shakespeare, history, and writing poetry. Some of his notable credits include Viola in Twelfth Night (International Black Theatre Festival), Romeo, Hamlet, and Orsino in Shake it Up: Cabaret (Shakespeare and Company), and Millie in Trouble in Mind (Clarence Brown Theatre). Merlin holds an MFA in Acting from University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

ALEX MOGGRIDGE (The Witch, the Wolf, the Dragon, and the Boy, “The Wolf/Elias”), he/him, THEATER Broadway: Betrayal, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz; Regional: Metamorphoses, Treasure Island, Three Sisters, Chinglish (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Eat Your Heart Out, I Will Be Gone, (Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival); Clybourne Park, It’s a Wonderful Life, Baskerville (Long Wharf Theatre); Three Sisters (Yale Repertory Theatre); Christmas Carol, Beard of Avon (American Conservatory Theater) and others. PLAYWRITING The Boatman (Flint Repertory Theatre), Simon Dawes Becomes a Planet (Access Theatre, New York) FILM/TELEVISION Batman Begins; The Defenders, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Person of Interest, Trauma.

MARK PETERS (Ducking, “Father/Child/College Guy”), he/him, recently played Melke in Oud Player on the Tel at HERE Arts Center. The play will be produced again later this year. He was King Lear in A Fool’s Lear, an original adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. Other roles: DeGuiche in Cyrano with Gabriel Barre; Sharky in The Seafarer; Frank in The Country Girl; Vanya in Uncle Vanya; Doc in Come Back, Little Sheba (musical) oppo­site Donna McKechnie (cast album); Emile in South Pacific; The Phantom; Perón in Evita; Ahab in Moby-Dick (musical); Matt in Talley’s Folly; Side by Side by Sondheim; Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill.

JACKIE RIVERA (Ghost Light/The Light That Waits, “Ghost Light”), they/them, is a non-binary actor and community-based performance artist. Select NY credits: Helen. at LaMama, Fragments, Lists, and Lacunae (with Judith Butler) at New York Live Arts, and Diane in Hurricane Diane at KTC, Ithaca. They are a bicycle touring theater artist and transportation justice advocate, a core member of eco theater Superhero Clubhouse, and the Program Director of their Ghost Bike Fellowship. Pratt Institute MFA, Performance + Performance Studies. More at jackie-rivera.com

BETSY ROSEN (The Monster Moves On, “Junie”) is a Helen Hayes Award-winning artist based in NYC. Her work includes performance, direction, design, puppetry, devising, and education. She has worked with companies including Lincoln Center, Sydney Opera House, The Drama League, Dead Puppet Society, American Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Arts on the Horizon, Imagination Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Round House Theatre, Taffety Punk, Delaware Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, and The Studio Theatre. Betsy was most recently seen on Broadway and in the first National Tour of Life of Pi, playing the Tiger, Richard Parker, as well as serving as Puppetry Captain and Assistant Puppetry and Movement Director. Education: Theater and Mathematics, University of Maryland College Park. @thebetsyrosen

PARIS RUIZ (Freddie Fartfinger Saves the Day, “Drew”), he/him, is a New York-based artist who graduated from NYU’s Tisch Drama Department. He enjoys playing complex and unique characters on stage and film, bringing a nuanced and realistic approach to his work. When he isn’t acting, he works as an independent filmmaker. He was the Director of Photography for a narrative drama titled “Silhouette”.

STEPHANIE JEANE TOUSSAINT (The Witch, the Wolf, the Dragon, and the Boy, “The Witch/Evelyn”), she/her, is thrilled to be back in the playground with the wonderful artists of PG-NY! She was recently featured in the opening ceremony of WNBA Season 2025 on ESPN. She has also played Meiko in Eureka Day (Shaker Bridge Theatre), Helena in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hip to Hip Theatre), Rosalind in As You Like It (Hamlet Isn’t Dead), Daisy in Dogeaters (Two River Theater). Other credits include Burning Cloud (Chain Theatre), Look How Far You’ve Come (New York Theatre Festival), and Two Takes (Frederick Loewe Theatre). Film credits circulating in festivals include Driver, Beginning, and Polanco. MFA Columbia. @stephaniejeane

ELI WASSERTZUG (Duckling, “Narrator”), they/them, is an NYC-based actor and singer with a BA in Drama from Vassar College. They are a resident artist with The Firebird Project, a member of the Artists Advisory Committee for Notch Theatre Company, and a summer teaching artist for Traveling Players Ensemble; they also recently appeared in the city as part of the 2025 cohort of The 24 Hour Plays Nationals. Eli aims to create inclusive, collaborative, and spectacular art that challenges entrenched systems of power, especially gender.

DIRECTORS

JACKSON BRADSHAW (Ghost Light/The Light That Waits), they/he, is a director, writer, and multimedia artist with a passion for new works development. Some of Jackson’s favorite work includes being the Artistic Director of A La Carte Writers Workshop, directing People Don’t Shoot Up Schools in 1930. at Theatre Row, and producing their internationally acclaimed short film, Untitled Self Portrait! Jackson is an alumnus of the Dobbins Conservatory. You can follow them @jacksonbradshawofficial on all socials.

SARAH GUILBAULT (The Witch, the Wolf, the Dragon, and the Boy), they/she, is “in the moment.”

JULLY LEE (Duckling), she/her, is an Ovation-nominated actor and long-time performer with COLD TOFU IMPROV, the nation’s first and longest running Asian-American comedy troupe. Hailing from Los Angeles, she made her New York and Broadway debut in KPOP the Musical and is now bi-coastal. Some of her theatre credits include: Joy Luck Club (national tour), Coleman ’72, Aubergine, tokyo fish story (South Coast Repertory), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Fountain Theatre/East West Players, Ovation nomination for Featured Actress in a Play), Ladies (Boston Court Pasadena), 36 Views (PCPA), Mexican Day (Rogue Machine), Chinese Massacre [Annotated] (Circle X) and Tales of Clamor (Aratani Theatre). TV credits include recurring roles on Young Sheldon, The Kicks and Gang Related and guest appearances on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, S.W.A.T., Veep, This Is Us, Jane the Virgin, Rosewood, The Kominsky Method, and I Think You Should Leave. Feature film: The Illegal, Reach, Thriller, Double Mommy and Return to Zero. As a director, she has worked with Cold Tofu, Company of Angels, East West Players, Song Collective (NY), Pan-Asian Repertory (NY), Playground-NY, Playground-LA, Playground-SF, Playwrights’ Arena, Moving Arts, IAMA Theatre, The Road Theatre, EST-LA, Artists At Play, Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, Exposition Review, hereandnow theatre ensemble, and USC’s Masters of Professional Writing Program. jullylee.com

JAMEY MILLER (The Monster Moves On), he/him, is a New York–based director. Recent credits include Waiting for Wicked (Soho Playhouse) and Incels and Other Myths (New York Theater Festival), for which he earned a Best Director nomination. He has supported projects with Madison Wells Live, including Swept Away and We Live in Cairo. He previously worked as an agency assistant with APA and ICM Partners. Recent observerships with Rachel Chavkin, Tyne Rafaeli, Sammi Cannold, Ryan Dobrin, and John Rando have shaped his collaborative approach. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Boston University and an associate member of SDC. directedbyjamey.com.

CHARLIE RODRIGUEZ (Freddie Fartfinger Saves the Day), he/him, has a BA in Drama from Texas Women’s University and a MFA in Acting from University of Arkansas and has studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic arts. He has performed both in the US and the UK. He is represented by the bicoastal agency Media Artist Group (MAGtalent). He just finished filming a supporting role for the film Lucky Lu by award winning director director Lloyd Lee Choi. His Insta is @elmejorcalosrodriguez

ABIGAIL ROSEN (Back Pay; Executive Producer), she/her, is a director, producer, and dramaturg, and the Executive Producer of PlayGround-NY. Thank you to Taylor, Charlie, Jim, and BJG.

PRODUCTION

KAYLA AMANI (Associate Producer), she/they, is a director, storyteller and collaborator born and raised in NYC. They are a proud graduate of Syracuse University. Recently, they have assisted directors such as Lileana Blain-Cruz and Sarah Hughes at Second Stage and Lincoln Center Theater as well as directed at PlayGround-NY.

BAILEY JORDAN GARCIA (Casting Director), they/he, is a playwright/actor/producer based in NYC. As a playwright, Bailey’s worked with places such as Atlantic Theatre Company, The Blank, Boston Theatre Company, Cry Havoc, First Kiss, Ohio University, StageQ, and many others! They’re currently a member of Purple Light Production’s Pallet Cohort and under commission for a full-length for PlayGround-NY as well as a 60-minute touring production for Appalachian Center for the Arts (touring schools in January 2026). They’re also the proud co-founder of Fresh Binder Productions, a theatrical home for emerging TGNC playwrights. baileyjordangarcia.com

SARAH GASSER (Stage Manager) joined PlayGround in 2017 and has staged managed for the Monday Night PlayGround series and PlayGround Festival. In the Bay Area, she has stage managed for Brava and Bay Area Children’s Theatre, among others.

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 350 early career playwrights, developing and staging more than 1,500 of their original short plays through the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series and the PlayGround Festival. PlayGround has also commissioned 100 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 36 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 Steinberg Awards, Glickman Awards (including 6 of the past 10), 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.

STREAMING NOW AND COMING SOON

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 playground-sf.org/contribute or contact PlayGround Associate Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org or by phone at (833) 992-6677.

PlayGround-NY Writers Pool 2025-26

Claire Abramovitz, Taylor Blackman, Tré Calhoun, Maisa Chiang, Kyri Colson, Chelyn Cousar, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Bram Hartman, Stanley Hathaway, Howard Ho, Wade Lawrence Hollomon, Sio Hornbuckle, Le’Kee Antonio Horton, Uma Incrocci, Nathaniel Blake Johnson, Sarena Kuhn, Heather McDonald, D.A. Mindell, Gaurav Mishra, Ayodeji Otuyelu, Annie Raczko, Jacob Marx Rice, Kathryn Ryan, Ash, Camron Wright, Melvin Yen

PlayGround Resident Playwrights

Saiya Floyd, Dana Goldstein, Howard Ho, Wade Hollomon, Lyra Nalan, Camron Wright

PlayGround-NY Company

Kayla Amani, Jen Anaya, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Rebecca Aparicio, Jackson Bradshaw, Julia Brothers, Eva Burgess, Tia Cassmira, Nathaniel Claridad, Sheila Collins, Gracie Connell, Julia Crowley, Sarah Guilbault, Neal Gupta, Noor Hamdi, SouJee Han, Amy Hart Nguyen, Monica Ho, Mary Hodges, Anya Josephs, Tyler Kent, Nikhaar Kishnani, Kalina Ko, Nico Krell, Austin Ku, Willow Lautenberg, Jully Lee, MeeWha Lee, Timothy Lee, AJ Lily, Ana Margineanu, Alex Moggridge, Ed Moreno, Norm Munoz, Graceson Nunez, Attilio Rigotti, Charlique C. Rolle, Abigail Rosen, Betsy Rosen, Paris Ruiz, Alex Shafer, Nick Sholley, Olivia Songer, Illana Stein, James Suarez, Kimberly Van Vo, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Rebecca White, Laith Zuaiter.

PlayGround-NY Staff

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Lana Richards, Associate Director of Development
Jonathan Josephson, Director of Marketing & Communications
Abigail Rosen, Executive Producer
Bailey Jordan Garcia, Casting Director
Kayla Amani, Associate Producer
Charlique Rolle, Associate Producer

PlayGround Ambassadors

Julia Brothers, Jordan Carlson, Ben Chau-Chiu , Julia Crowley, Sheri Flanders, Claire Ganem, Eric Geller, Monica Ho, Tony Kim, Christine Liao, AJ Lily, Ely Sonny Orquiza, Andrew Perez, Ivan Rivas, Miyoko Sakatani, Braedyn Youngberg.

PlayGround Equity Workgroup

Diana Burbano, Victoria Evans Erville, Norman Gee, Jim Kleinmann, Brittany Mellerson, Tiana Randall-Quant, Katja Rivera, M. Graham Smith.

PlayGround Board

Stephanie Prentice, Chair
James A. Kleinmann, President
Emilie Talbot, Vice President
Nitin, Treasurer
Christian Wilburn, Secretary
Regina Guggenheim, Chair Emeritus
Tanvi Agrawal
Linda Amayo-Hassan
Julia Brothers
Ben Cain
Howard Ho
Toby Inoue
Rebecca Martinez
Kendall Phillips
Jessica June Rowe

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