PlayGround-NY presents Season 3

BEST of PLAYGROUND(NY) ’24

April 22nd, 2024 7pm ET
Live at The Producers Club + Simulcast & On Demand

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.

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND MEMBERSHIPS

We are deeply grateful to our 2023-24 Monday Night PlayGround Members, whose direct support helps to underwrite artists fees for the Monday Night series across all four regions: Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Tanvi Agrawal, Linda Amayo-Hassan, Sharon Baldwin, Jaisey Bates, Tim Bishop, Ms. Linda B Breaux-Smith, Emilie Brooks, Robyn Brooks, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Ben Cain, Julie Campbell, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Joan Cleveland, Ms. Marilyn Berg Cooper, Sandra Cruze, Dodds Delzell, Hillary DeMartino, Sharon Ebehardt, Ann Ehrmann, Ms. Cherielyn Ferguson, Krystyna Finlayson, Sheri Flanders, Conde Freeman, Michael Fried, Dr. Jan Gilman, Lara Gilman, Michael Tonjum & Jan Gilman, Hollis Greenwood, Ruben Grijalva, Regina Guggenheim, Dana Hall, Rachel Harner, Sharlene Hartman, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Lucy Hsu, Brandy T Jones, Ms. Anne M. Krause, Emily Kuroda, Douglas Le Blanc, Ms. Kristy Lin Billuni, Mr. John Lindner, Jonathan Luskin & Leslie Katz, Rhea MacCallum, George Maguire, Brian Markley, Linda Marks, Dr. Sheila McCormick, Bacilio Mendez II, Ms. Cynthia L Morishige, Dan Morley, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Annette Oliveira, Maryl Olivera, Ms. Vicki Oswald, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Mrs. Elizabeth Poston, Madeline Puccioni, Mr. George Rose, Jessica June Rowe, Michelle Ruscetta, John J. Ruskin, Kathryn Ryan, Miyoko Sakatani, Louel Senores, Mark Sherstinsky, Nancy W. Smith, Stan Stone, Cathie Stonie, Mr. Richard Dana Swart, Mary Lou Torre, Kim Tram, Jeffrey Trescott, Michael E Tuton, Dr. Eidell Wasserman, Michael Waterson, Bex White, Christian Wilburn, Janine Wilburn, and Maury Zeff. Thank you!

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Island of Monsters
by Claire Abramovitz
Directed by Abigail Rosen
Miranda…..Willow Lautenberg
Caliban..……………….Paris Ruiz

Jie Jie
by Howard Ho
Directed by Nathaniel Claridad
Jada………………….Susan Ly
Chris………..Alex Moggridge
Wu…………………….Jully Lee

Origin of the Prince of Denmark
by Lyra Nalan
Directed by Jim Kleinmann
Claudius..………….James Suarez
Ghost……..………….…Alex Shafer
Gertrude………………..Bex White
Old Hamlet……….Parker Damm

@rudymocha has entered the chatroom
by Bailey Jordan Garcia
Directed by Kayla Amani
Betsy….……Carson Lee Cosper
Lexi……………Maria Eleni Zollo
Peter…………..Jonas McMullen

Refuge to Planet Min
by Vicky Pham
Directed by Austin Ku
Kathy……………………………Kimberly Van Vo
Chi……………………………….Amy Hart Nguyễn
Superhero Chi……Stephanie Jeane Toussaint

Slash/Her
by Anthony Anello
Directed by Eva Burgess
Amber…………Gracie Connell
Carlee………….Eli Wassertzug
Jenna…………..Sarah Guilbalt

Stage Manager – Sarah Gasser

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

PlayGround is a member of Theatre Bay Area, A.R.T.-New York, League of Chicago Theatres, and Theatre Communications Group.

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!

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

CLAIRE ABRAMOVITZ (Island of Monsters), she/they/any, is an emerging playwright living and working in New York City. She has recently returned to America from two years living in Jerusalem and learning as an Arts and Culture Fellow at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies. She holds a bachelors degree in English, Theatre, and Jewish Studies from Oberlin College. In addition to all her studies, she is a published author and playwright. Her play To Rot in His Bones was a semifinalist in the 2021 Jewish Plays Project Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. In her spare time she writes poetry, song parodies, jokes, keeps a list of fake band names, and makes soup for at least thirty. Her dream is to open a soup restaurant/comedy club.

ANTHONY ANELLO (Slash/Her) he/him, is a graduate of NYU Tisch’s Dramatic Writing program where he was awarded the John Golden Playwriting Prize and served as a co-founder/president of the Broke People Play Festival. Some of his works include A Dog Dies (Goldberg Prize, runner-up), The Carter Play (Dixon Place), GAY ST./MONTAUK (developed with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), and let’s talk about anything else (Loading Dock & the Tank). He served as a Writing Advisor for Out of the Box Theatrics’ Off-Broadway and Drama Desk-nominated revival of Baby.

BAILEY JORDAN GARCIA (@rudymocha has entered the chatroom), they/them, is a non-binary playwright located in NYC. Selected PlayGround Plays: “The Day Ophelia Drowned”, “@rudymocha has entered the chatroom”, “Thanks for the Mammaries!”,”Eve” (“Best Of LA” 2023 Winner), “This Is Beauty” (“Best Of NY” 2022 Winner). They’ve worked with places such as Atlantic Theatre Company, The Blank, Boston Theatre Company, The Bechdel Group, Cry Havoc, Ohio University, PlayGround-LA , and more! Currently, Bailey is in a residency with PlayGround. They’re also the proud co-founder of Fresh Binder Productions — a theatre company supporting transgender and non-binary playwrights! When they’re not writing, you can probably find them at Bethesda Fountain or at Brave Trails — an LGBT+ leadership summer camp! baileyjordangarcia.com

HOWARD HO (Jie Jie), he/him, is a playwright and composer. His play RESET was produced at Moving Arts and was an O’Neill Finalist. WHERE I’M FROM was a Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival Finalist, was featured in Center Theatre Group’s Community Stories, and is being developed into a musical. His musical analysis Youtube channel (youtube.com/HowardHoMusic) has 120,000 subscribers and was recognized by Lin-Manuel Miranda. His sound design has earned him Ovation and SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nominations. He’s been published in American Theatre Magazine and the LA Times. He holds degrees from UCLA and USC. Instagram: @howardwho

LYRA NALAN (Origin of the Prince of Denmark), she/her, is a bilingual Chinese playwright based in Brooklyn. She is the Judith Royer Award-winning playwright for the play “Paper Dream” and recipient of the Horticultural Playwriting Fellowship and Three Brother’s Playwright Residency. Her work has been showcased or developed at the Kennedy Center, Cherry Lane Theatre, Theatre Row, Adventure Theatre MTC, Silk Road Rising Theatre, Round House Theatre, Spooky Action Theatre, Avant Bard Theatre, Strand Theatre, etc. Lyra is so thrilled and honored to be part of PlayGround-NY! EDUCATION: Northwestern University: MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage. WEBSITE: Lyranalan.com.

VICKY PHAM (Refuge to Planet Min) is a writer, SCU alumna, and current Playwriting MFA student at Columbia University. Through her work, Vicky wishes to raise awareness and champion change to issues afflicting the AAPI, immigrant, and first-gen communities. She is the writer of plays such as White Christmas and A Seat At The Table, which was selected for a reading under the direction of Tony Award winning actor, BD Wong. Vicky is a past Hackworth Fellow, recipient of the Justin T. McCarthy Award for Voice, and currently working on her next full-length play Lipstick Pig focusing on the ethical considerations of diversity casting.

ACTORS

GRACIE CONNELL (Slash/Her, “Amber”), she/her, is an actor, voiceover artist, writer, Basset Hound Enthusiast, and overall funny-girl based out of New York City.

CARSON LEE COSPER (@rudymocha has entered the chatroom, “Betsy”), she/her, has studied Shakespeare Performance at The Globe Theatre in London, Acting at HB Studios, and Theatre at Saint Louis University. Her favorite credits include Nicole in Must Win, Joan of Arc in Saint Joan of Arc and Abigail in The Crucible. You can also catch her in the upcoming short films “Purpose”, “The Keys”, and “Clean My Room”. carsonleecosper.com

PARKER DAMM (Origin of the Prince of Denmark, “Old Hamlet”), he/him, is an actor, director, and writer based in New York City originally from Maryland. ​ He is the oddball friend who is often too open but will lend a hand when one is needed. Goofy and lovable, Parker can be patient to a fault. ​ Parker has studied with Bob Krakower, James Calleri, and Wendy McKenna. Recently he filmed the role of Dancing Mailbox in Lady in the Lake starring Natalie Portman for Apple TV+. The miniseries is coming out this summer.

SARAH GUILBAULT (Slash/Her, “Jenna”), they/she, is a nuisance.

MARIA ELENI (@rudymocha has entered the chatroom, “Lexi”), she/her, has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Norwegian Opera House in Oslo, Norway, Madison Square Garden and on Saturday Night Live (Season 48 Episode 10). She was the Music Director at Sts. Constantine and Helen Cathedral in Brooklyn from 2013-2023. Currently, Maria Eleni is the Chanter at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Manhattan. She holds her B.M in Voice from Mannes Conservatory and her M.A. in Music from CUNY Hunter College. Maria Eleni also maintains a studio of voice and piano students, while also performing in music, theater and stand up comedy. Website: mariaeleni.online

AMY HART NGUYEN (Refuge to Planet Min, “Chi”), she/her, is a Vietnamese/Chinese Canadian actor who trained in NYC at HB Studio and Stella Adler. Her work was recently featured at the Frieze LA Film Award in a short written and directed by Milky Tran. She also studied jazz piano at Vanier College in Montreal and can juggle conversations in English, French, and Vietnamese. Apart from her serious acting studies, Amy practices the art of tarot reading and telling poop jokes to strangers.

STEPHANIE JEANE TOUSSAINT (Refuge to Planet Min, “Superhero Chi”), she/her is thrilled to be reading for PlayGround-NY for the first time. Her recent credits include Burning Cloud (Chain Theatre), Look How Far You’ve Come (New York Theatre Festival), Two Takes (Frederick Loewe Theatre), Just Us (Gene Frankel Theatre), The Witching Hour (The Kraine Theatre), Dogeaters (Two River Theater). Film: Crouching Tiger, The Snoozefest, Delivery, Crimson Harvest, Ava. MFA Columbia. stephaniejeane.com

WILLOW LAUTENBERG (Island of Monsters, “Miranda”), she/her, is an actress-playwright-singer. Off-Broadway: What It Means to Be Free (Theatre Row), Spare Rib (New World Stages). Selected Regional/Tours: Shrek The Musical, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Animal Farm. Playwright: Incarcerated (NewYorkRep commission), What It Means to Be Free (play & screenplay – finalist, Harlem Intl Film Fest). BFA Acting/Writing Minor, Emerson College. @willowthesingingtree

SUSAN LY (Jie Jie, “Jada”), she/her, is a native Houstonian, based in NYC and excited to work with PlayGround-NY! She received her BFA in Theatre from SFASU, studied abroad in England at Rose Bruford and in Spain at La R.E.S.A.D., and has performed in a variety of mediums. Huge thank you to the audience for supporting the arts!! www.sosusanly.com

JONAS MCMULLEN (@rudymocha has entered the chatroom, “Peter”)

ALEX MOGGRIDGE (Jie Jie, “Chris”), he/him, is delighted to return to PlayGround. 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”.

PARIS RUIZ (Island of Monsters, “Caliban”), he/him, began acting seven years ago during his sophomore year of high school, developing an immediate love for the craft. He studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute at NYU for nearly four years, and recently performed alongside Academy Award-winning producer Jaime Ray Newman as the lead in a short film titled Kinship, set to release early next year. Paris loves tackling complex and unique characters. He would like to thank his family for all the love and support they have given him: Soy increíblemente afortunado, los amo con todo mi corazón.

ALEX SHAFER (Origin of the Prince of Denmark, “Ghost”), he/him, moved to New York from the SF/Bay Area in 2018. He is happy to be working with PlayGround again, here in NYC. Theatre highlights in NY include Yehudi in Catapult! at Theatre for a New City, Harry Druggist in The Cradle Will Rock at Theatre 2020, in the SF/Bay Area, Colonel McKean in 1776 at ACT, Dan/Jack in Value Over Replacement with Playground, Michael Flaherty in Playboy of the Western World at Cinnabar, Gaev in The Cherry Orchard at Hapgood. TV/Film highlights include Jacob Ackerman in Law and Order, and Sy in Gone Without a Past.

JAMES SUAREZ (Origin of the Prince of Denmark, “Claudius”), he/him, was recently a Swing in Polar Express (Rail Events) and worked throughout the interactive theater scene in NYC. You can find him performing in cabarets throughout the city (Bar Nine, The Green Room 42, Don’t Tell Mama). He is very grateful for the support of his friends, without them none of this would be possible.

KIMBERLY VAN VO (Refuge to Planet Min, “Kathy”), she/her, is a Canadian French multi – disciplined actor, dancer, and story teller. She’s a graduate of the William Esper Studio Professional Actor Training Program. Before trading Toronto for NYC, she studied Theatre at the University of Ottawa, The Dirt Underneath and The Second City Training Center. Outside of performing, she can be found hiking in the woods and road running around the globe.

ELI WASSERTZUG (Slash/Her, “Carlee”), they/them, is an NYC-based actor and singer originally from Northern Virginia with a BA in Drama from Vassar College. They have most recently worked in the city with The Tank, Notch Theatre Company, Staten Island Shakespeare Theater, and Milky Way Theatre Company, and in addition to Vassar, trained with Hangar Theatre, Powerhouse Theater, Synetic Theater, and Traveling Players Ensemble. Eli aims to create inclusive, collaborative, and spectacular theater that challenges entrenched systems of power, especially gender.

BEX WHITE (Origin of the Prince of Denmark, “Gertrude”), she/her, is thrilled to be PlayGround-ing! Theater: Hadrian’s Wall (Best Actress, NY Fringe), The Taming (Shaker Bridge), 8 roles + guitar for A Christmas Carol (Merrimack Rep), Awake & Sing! (Aurora), The Exonerated (dir. Bob Balaban), World Premiere of T.I.C. (Magic Theater), & NY premiere of Talking to Terrorists. Film/TV: Homeland (Showtime), Falling Water (USA), Eye Candy (MTV), Person of Interest (CBS), The Waiting Room (dir. Oscar-winner Graham Moore & Ben Epstein), Limit (Golden Honu, Hawaii’s BIFF). Graduate: Brown University & The Shakespeare Lab (Public Theater). She singer-songwrites as Bexarkana. instagram/fb: @bexarkana

DIRECTORS

KAYLA AMANI (@rudymocha has entered the chatroom), 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. Kayla is thrilled to be back working with PlayGround for this round!

EVA BURGESS (Slash/Her), she/her, is a New York based director and theatre artist, whose work has been seen in the States as well as internationally. She enjoys the collaborative process of developing new work for the stage (including the Zoom stage). She makes her living teaching theatre and is also an Applied Theatre practitioner. Eva is pleased to be directing again as a part of Playground-NYC’s season.

NATHANIEL CLARIDAD (Jie Jie), he/him, is an NYC based actor & director. Directing credits include Weathervane Theatre, Southern Rep., TheatreWorksUSA, Imagination Stage, Out of the Box Theatrics, Drama League Resident (2019, 2016), guest director for New York University, Marymount Manhattan, and the University of Maryland, College Park. Numerous acting credits include Here Lies Love (Public Theater), Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History…(St. Ann’s Warehouse), numerous regional & international credits from the Kennedy Center to the Sydney Opera House. TV: New Amsterdam, Harlem

JIM KLEINMANN (Origin of the Prince of Denmark, 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.

AUSTIN KU (Refuge to Planet Min), he/they, is a Grammy-nominated new works enthusiast. He is a 2024 PlayGround-NY Directing Apprentice, making his directing debut! As an actor, he is an inaugural company member of PlayGround-NY. International/Broadway Tour: Chinglish. Off-Broadway: Soft Power (Public Theater), Pacific Overtures starring George Takei (Classic Stage Company), Dead Outlaw (Audible Theater) and more. Regional: lots! Film: Sleeping with Other People, Judd Apatow’s The Bubble and more. TV: Guest/recurring on “Inventing Anna”, “Bull”, “Shades of Blue” and more. Concerts: Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, The Kennedy Center at 50 and more. Austin-Ku.com @secretaustinman.

ABIGAIL ROSEN (Island of Monsters, Executive Producer), she/her, is a New York-based director, dramaturg, and producer. Abigail has experience with new play workshops on Broadway, off-Broadway, and local levels. Follow her career and pop culture blog on Instagram @abimayrose, and on her website at abigailrosen.me.

PRODUCTION

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.

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 March 1, 2023 & March 25, 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+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Daniel E. Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Paul Haahr, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

John H. Gilman, Carlie Wilmans, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, David Goldman, Regina S. Guggenheim, Linda Kremer, Eric Craig Moody, Nitin, David Steele, Janine Wilburn, Anonymous (2)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Steve & Gretchen Debenham, Hillary DeMartino, Keith Goldstein and Donna Warrington, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Paul & Pam Kleinmann, Gregg & Jennifer Le Blanc, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Dr. Gary W. London, Pam MacKinnon, Danny & Dolores Martinez, Molly Noble and Bob Guilbault, Jeffrey Trescott, Pam & John Walker, Christian Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (5)

PATRON ($250-$499)

James & Cassandra Carpenter, Sheila Collins, Kelly & Carlos Delgado, Philippa M Kelly & Paul Dresher, Jonathan Luskin, Dolores Martinez, Chris and Cindy Redburn, Diane Sampson, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Jon Tracy, Anonymous

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Mary E. Baird, Ms. Lynda H Barber, Ruth & Robert Brayton, Fair & Levit Family, Anirvan Ghosh, Dana Hall, Tobi Marcus, Michelle Nedboy, Doug Peckler & Evelyn Jean Pine, Kimberly Ridgeway, Mary Ann & Malcolm Rodgers, Kathryn Ryan, Christine Sheppard, Ms. Susan Terris, Mary Lou Torre, Anonymous (2)

To contribute to PlayGround, 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.

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PLAYGROUND-NY WRITERS POOL

Claire Abramovitz, Anthony Anello, Todd Cerveris, Sean Dunnington, Barry Eitel, Adi Eshman, Madi Fabber, Bailey Jordan Garcia, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Lori Goodman, Melinda Gros, Patience Haggin, Michael Hagins, Bram Hartman, Stanley W. Hathaway, Howard Ho, Wade Lawrence Hollomon, Uma Incrocci, Avery Ingvarson, Rachel Leighson, Bailey C. Lewis, Alex Moggridge, Danielle E. Moore, Lyra Nalan, Vicky Pham, Leah Plante-Wiener, Colby Poston, Erin Proctor, Jacob Marx Rice, Rachael Richman, Katie Ryan, Marcus Scott, Matt Sievers, Gaven D. Trinidad, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, SMJ

PLAYGROUND-NY COMPANY

Jen Anaya, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Rebecca Aparicio, Julia Brothers, Nathaniel Claridad, Sheila Collins, Gracie Connell, Sarah Guilbault, Neal Gupta, Noor Hamdi, SouJee Han, Amy Hart Nguyen, Monica Ho, Mary Hodges, Tyler Kent, Nikhaar Kishnani, Kalina Ko, Nico Krell, Austin Ku, Jully Lee, MeeWha Lee, Timothy Lee, AJ Lily, Ana Margineanu, Alex Moggridge, Ed Moreno, Norm Munoz, Wiley Naman Strasser, Graceson Nunez, Attilio Rigotti, Abigail Rosen, Betsy Rosen, Paris Ruiz, Alex Shafer, Nick  Sholley, Olivia Songer, Illana Stein, Kimberly Van Vo, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Rebecca White, Laith Zuaiter

PRODUCTION & STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Abigail Rosen, Executive Producer
Nathaniel Claridad, Associate Producer
Kalina Ko, Associate Producer
Bailey Jordan Garcia, Casting Associate
Sarah Gasser, Resident Stage Manager
Darius Adamson Jr., 2023-24 Producing Fellow
Emily Zhou, 2023-24 Producing Fellow

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