PlayGround-NY presents Season 5

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

“Musical Parody”
December 8, 2025 7pm ET
The Producers Club & Vimeo Live Simulcast

ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT

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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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Phanton of the Slopera
by Claire Abramovitz
directed by Jamey Miller
Christine………………..Julia Crowley
Phantom.AI………………..Mark Peters
Wee Midwestern Lad…………………Julia Brothers

Papa Will Provide
by Camron Wright
directed by Charlique C. Rolle
Ti Moune………………..Tia Cassmira
Papa Ge………………..George Harris
Erzulie…………………Amber Jessie

Moving Out
by Sio Horbuckle
directed by Anya Josephs
Sal………………..Jen Anaya
Sandra………………..Eli Wassertzug
Quinn…………………Bex White

Merrily We Scroll Along
by Wade Lawrence Hollomon
directed by Jackson Bradshaw
Jae-Lynn………………..Frank Poon
Brae-Buster………………..James Suarez
Ava…………………Addison Hinojosa

So, Whats Going On With You?
by Taylor Adam Blackman
directed by Charlique C. Rolle
Priscilla………………..Sarah Guilbault
Gillian………………..Katie Harden
Kate…………………Julia Crowley

Oh Noklahoma!
by Guarav Mishra
directed by Abigail Rosen
Scraggley………………..Talen Marshall
Laurel………………..Willow Lautenberg
Bud Satue…………………Phillip Pineno

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, A.R.T.-New York, League of Chicago Theatres, and Theatre Communications Group, and a Partner Organization of the National New Play Network (NNPN).

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

CLAIRE ABRAMOVITZ (Phantom of the Slopera), she/her,  is an emerging playwright living, working, and eating a lot of cheese in New York City. Her play To Rot in His Bones was a semifinalist in the 2021 Jewish Plays Project Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest and in Bay Street Theater’s Title Wave, New Works Festival 2024. Most recently, her short play Island Full of Monsters was in the Best of PlayGround-NY ’24. In her spare time she writes poetry, song parodies, keeps a list of fake band names, and makes soup for at least thirty. Her dream is to open a soup restaurant/comedy club.

TAYLOR ADAM BLACKMAN (So, Whats Going On With You?), he/him is a writer, actor, 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, an 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.

WADE LAWRENCE HOLLOMON (Merrily We Scroll Along), he/him, is a playwright, director, and actor based in New York City. Produced plays include HEATWAVE (Horizon Theatre Company), Brutal Youth (Market Theatre), Weekend Warriors (Anderson University), and While You Were Asleep (Columbia College Chicago). Wade has a drama degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts High School and the South Carolina School of the Arts, was a Playwriting Apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company in Atlanta, and is a current member of PlayGround-NY’s Writers Pool and Playwright Residency Program. He can be heard on the film podcast Cinema Bums.

SIO HORNBUCKLE (Moving Out), 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.

GAURAV MISHRA (Oh Noklahoma!), he/him, is a playwright, composer, and sound designer based in NYC. He recently obtained an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch and is currently a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He also holds degrees in Theatre & Performance Studies, Music Composition, and Economics from UC Santa Barbara. Gaurav has been employed in venues across New York, Florida, and California as a writer, composer, sound designer, production accountant, musician, and more. He has also been a restaurant jazz pianist and an international tax specialist. Gaurav loves birds, falling asleep to podcasts, and Lille, France.

CAMRON WRIGHT (Papa Will Provide), she/her, is a 2023 graduate from Howard University who majored in English and minored in Playwriting. She grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida and developed a love for theater, writing, and reading at a young age. Wright has interned with The John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts in the Archive, American Ballet Theatre in the Press Team and Polk and Company in New York City.

ACTORS

JEN ANAYA (Moving Out, “Sal”), he/him, is an actor, community organizer, butoh dancer, and alligator enthusiast. He often has strong opinions about theater, and he cherishes every opportunity to play his part in making it happen. In his free time, you can catch him trying to befriend the local bodega cat or cooking curry for friends. Training: Atlantic Acting School.

JULIA BROTHERS (Phantom of the Slopera, “Wee Midwestern Lad”), she/they, is a longtime member of PlayGround from the Berkeley days, Julia loves working on new works. World premieres include Russian Troll Farm (Darko Tresnjak, dir); God in the Kilbane’s rock opera Weightless (Under the Radar, ACT, Z Space); Elaine May’s George is Dead (with Marlo Thomas) and every San Francisco and New York Monday night PlayGround!!! www.juliabrothers.com

TIA CASSMIRA (Papa Will Provide, “Ti Moune” ), she/her, is a multi-hyphenate, Trinidadian-American artist born and raised in Queens, New York. She graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts with her BFA in Acting. In addition to studying in London at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, she has also completed the British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer in Oxford and Midsummer Conservatory Programs. When she’s not acting or dancing, she can be found miming alongside Broken Box Mime and performing with the comedy troupe Recent Cutbacks, and amongst the research committee for Expand the Canon. Recent credits include Anomalous Co’s (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling and Sex & the Abbey by Diana Ly (Mathilda). Tiacassmira.com.

JULIA CROWLEY (Phantom of the Slopera, “Christine;” What’s Going On With You?, “Kate”), she/her, is a New York City and New England based performer. She can be seen starring in the film Artificial (2024) which premiered in the Workers Unite Film Festival, and Orphans (2022) which played in festivals across New York state. Julia can also be spotted playing the villain in the romance web-series The Billionaire Escort, streaming online now. Regional theater work includes starring as Charlotte in the New England premier of Hysterical! at Thrown Stone Theater Company. She’s a graduate of Vermont’s Bennington College where she studied drama and dance. Julia is a proud company member of PlayGround-NY.

SARAH GUILBAULT (So, What’s Going On With You?, “Priscilla”), they/she, is “in the moment.”

KATIE HARDEN (So, What’s Going On With You?, “Gillian”), she/her, is thrilled to be back again for PlayGround’s 2026 season! Credits include: OFF-BROADWAY: As You Like It (Player’s Theatre), A Night To Be Scene (June Havoc). REGIONAL: The Best XMas Variety Show Ever! (Seven Angel’s Theatre). Selected credits include: Nancy in Oliver, Diana Morales in A Chorus Line, Narrator in Joseph (Dir: Mark Wilson of B-Way’s “Hair”), Lucy Harris in Jekyll & Hyde, Belle in Beauty & The Beast, and Kate Mullins in Titanic (B-Way World’s Regional Best Feat. Actress Nominee). She was also part of the top 25 of DTM’s “Next Big Act”, and has been featured on America’s Got Talent, The Voice, a guest at the Hartford Civic Center and wrapped the 48 hour short “Third Key” as Detective Clarissa Gomez. She is a proud AEA member, SAG-E, and Native American/Puerto Rican girl. Katie also interviews celebrities and colleagues for Lorette Magazine as editor in chief and is a web and graphic designer. Find her on Instagram @katiehardenofficial

GEORGE HARRIS (Merchant of Death, “Alfred”), 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 also. 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.

ADDISON HINOJOSA (Merrily We Scroll Along, “Ava”), she/her, is a singer and actress based in New York City. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona- Addison moved to the city to study musical theater and was trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Some of her past theater credits include Mandy in “Time Stands Still”, Amanda Thripp in “Matilda”, and Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing”. Currently, she is touring with the Paper Bag Players in “Hey There, Howdy, Everybody!”, a children’s theatre company based in New York. If you want to hear more about what she’s up to, you can find her at addyhinojosaa (instagram), or addisonhinojosa.com (website).

AMBER JESSIE (Papa Will Provide, “Erzulie”), she/her, is a New York City–based actress, producer, and writer trained in the Meisner technique at the William Esper Studio. Her work spans theater, film, commercials, and voiceover, with experience in both Off-Off Broadway and independent film. She has appeared in numerous short films with NYU, Pratt, and The New School and has premiered work at the Chelsea Film Festival. Amber is also the founder of 927 Productions, where she develops and produces theatrical and film projects. Outside of acting, she’s a runner and a 2025 NYC Marathon finisher.

WILLOW LAUTENBERG (Oh Noklwahoma!, “Laurel”) 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

TALEN MARSHALL (Oh Noklahoma!, “Scraggley”) he/him, is a New York–based actor and member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity. He has studied at Juilliard, the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and John Casablancas, with additional training in Shakespeare, on-camera work, voice, dialects, and movement. His recent screen work includes the feature Feel My Pain, now streaming on Tubi. He is grateful to be part of this production.

MARK PETERS (Phantom of the Slopera, “Phantom.ai”), 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.

PHILLIP PINENO (Oh Noklahoma!, “Bud Satue”) he/him, is a New York performer and writer that has been seen in various productions around the city. Most recently in Negative Space at the Gene Frankel Theatre, Consequences of the Castro at the Spark Theatre Festival, and Blithe Spirit at the Main Street Theatre and Dance Alliance. Phillip has also appeared in numerous productions created by Hokum Arts, performed at the Playground – NY and Tuesdays at 9 play reading series’, and is a co-creator of the comedy web series Planners.

FRANK NICHOLAS POON (Merrily We Scroll Along, “Jae-Lynn”), he/him, is an Asian-American performer, award-winning producer, and creative storyteller. FNP trained at HB Studio for three years, where he was also the Marketing Director. As a producer, FNP has worked on nationally featured film and theatre projects alongside award-winning collaborators and renowned production organizations. Select film credits include Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock (Netflix) and The Story of Plastic (Emmy Winner, 2021). Select theatre credits include Jazz Singer (Abrons Arts Center) and Magic in Plain Sight (Target Margin Theater). BA, Arizona State University. @franknpoon | www.franknpoon.com.

JAMES SUAREZ (Merrily We Scroll Along, “Brae-Buster”), he/him, is thrilled to be a part of the PlayGround-NY family. Pervious credits Loud and With Feeling, Anastasia, Grease, and Rent. This past year he’s been making the rounds in the New York Cabaret scene, find out more @jamo_suarez on Instagram.

ELI WASSERTZUG (Happy Birthday, Beatrice, “Beatrice”), 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.

BEX WHITE (William 3, “Annie”), she/her, fed a 3-legged echidna named Luigi in Australia, & is still smiling about it. Theater includes: Hadrian’s Wall (Best Actress NY Fringe), Lauren Gunderson’s The Taming, 8 roles + guitar in A Christmas Carol (Merrimack Rep), Hennie in Awake & Sing!, Off-Bway’s The Exonerated (dir. Bob Balaban), & T.I.C. (World Premiere, Magic SF). Film/TV: Homeland (SHO), Falling Water (USA), Eye Candy (MTV), Person of Interest (CBS), The Waiting Room (dir. Oscar-winner Graham Moore & Ben Epstein), Limit (Golden Honu Winner – Hawaii’s BIFF). Graduate: Brown & The Shakespeare Lab (Public Theater/NYSF). She singer-songwrites as @bexarkana

DIRECTORS

JACKSON BRADSHAW (Merrily We Scroll Along), 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 alumni of the Dobbins Conservatory. You can follow them @jacksonbradshawofficial on all socials.

ANYA JOSEPHS (Moving Out), she/her, is an actor, voiceover artist, writer, now director, Basset Hound Enthusiast, and overall funny-girl based out of New York City.

JAMEY MILLER (Phantom of the Slopera) 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.

CHARLIQUE C. ROLLE (Papa Will Provide, So, What’s Going On With You?, Associate Producer) is a nationally recognized arts and culture leader, producer, community and cultural design specialist, and visionary storyteller committed to amplifying Black and marginalized voices. A Bahamas-born multidisciplinary creator, she serves as Associate Director of the Off-Broadway New York Times Critic’s Pick Oh Happy Day at The Public Theater; a member of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Director’s Group (Cohort 7) and Space Jam; Producer at Baltimore Center Stage; and Associate Producer and Company Member of Playground-NY. Recognized in Newcity’s 50 Players (2022, 2024), Charlique bridges faith, art, and justice to cultivate spaces for healing, imagination, and collective liberation. Through her work, she reimagines creative production as cultural ministry—designing ecosystems of sustainability, creative freedom, and joy-centered transformation.

ABIGAIL ROSEN (Oh, Noklahoma!, “Amy,” Executive Producer), she/her, is a director, producer, and dramaturg, and the Executive Producer of PlayGround-NY. She is honored to be making her official PlayGround performing debut. Thank you to Sio, 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.

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.

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 October 1, 2024 & October 17, 2025.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • Art Space Development Corporation • Berkeley Civic Arts • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • Fleishhacker Foundation • 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 • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • SF Shines • The Shubert Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Emilie & Gordon Brooks, Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Keith Goldstein & Donna Warrington, Regina Guggenheim, Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman, Craig Moody

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Randy Adams, John Gilman, Kathryn Hecht, Nitin, Jessica June Rowe, Darryl Wilburn, Christian Wilburn, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Jahnavi Alyssa, Linda Amayo-Hassan, Meriko Borogove, Anne & Kevin Brady, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Sheila Collins, Jediah Craig, Elizabeth Dudak, David Goldman, Greg Gorel, Jonathan Josephson, Linda Kremer, Tobi Marcus, Rebecca Martinez, Molly Noble, Berlanti Family Foundation, Kendall Phillips, Doug Peckler & Evelyn Jean Pine, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, Kathryn Ryan, Miyoko Sakatani, Diane Sampson, Kurt Taylor, William & Sharon Thompson, Jeffrey Trescott, Hechale Productions, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Tanvi Agrawal, Jim Brayton, Ben Cain, Lydia R. Diamond, Philip Gotanda, Toby Inoue, Jacqueline Kubicka, Bram McGinnis, Jenny Rand, Kitt Saginor, Anonymous, Janine Wilburn, Maury Zeff

PATRON ($250-$499)

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Ruth Brayton, Mara Gaudette, Matt Schwartz & Karen Levesque, Alex Loddengaard, Gary London, Alan Maass, Pam Mackinnon, Anonymous, Cindy Redburn, George Rose, Jerome Solberg, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Mia Taylor, Robin Wimsatt

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Sharon Baldwin, Marilyn Cooper, Clint Fleener, Wilmina Jensen, Abbe Kalos, Abbe Kalos, Ellen Loebl, Mark Peters, Abigail Rosen, Anonymous, Stephen & Ann Hearn Tobolowsky, Bex White, Susannah Wise

To contribute to PlayGround, visit https://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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