PlayGround-NY presents Season 4

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

Topic: “HOLIDAY SURPRISE”
December 23, 2024 7pm ET
Live at The Producers Club + 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 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.

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MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND MEMBERSHIPS

We are deeply grateful to our 2024-25 Monday Night PlayGround Members, whose direct support helps to underwrite artists fees for the Monday Night series across all four regions: Dr. & Mrs. Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Sharon Baldwin, Tim Bishop, Ms. Linda B Breaux-Smith, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, John Brown, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Ben Cain, Joan Cleveland, Ms. Sheila Collins, Ms. Marilyn Berg Cooper, Logan Varas De Valdes, Krystyna Finlayson, Krystyna Finlayson, Ms. Elizabeth Groenewegen, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Brandy Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Le Blanc, Alice Lehmann, Ms. Kristy Lin Billuni, Linda G Marks, Dr. Sheila McCormick, Yvonne McIntyre, Dan Morley, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Ms. Annette Oliveira, Mr. George Rose, Jessica June Rowe, Michelle Ruscetta, John J. Ruskin, Miyoko Sakatani, Mark Sherstinsky, Nancy W. Smith, Stan Stone, Cathy M Stonie, Vicki Victoria, Dr. Eidell Wasserman, and Ms. Cindy Womack. Thank you!

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

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

R. RÉAL VARGAS ALANIS (The Warmth of Thanksgiving), they, is a world-renowned 2-Spirit interdisciplinary artist, social justice advocate, and dual citizen from Winton, CA (Yokut) and Sahuayo, Michoacán, MX. They are the co-founder of IN THE MARGIN, an arts and advocacy organization that empowers QT, BIPOC voices. In 2023, Réal received the Artist Disruptor Award from the California Arts Council x Center for Cultural Power, and was named one of the “best Latinx comedic talents in the nation” by the Latinx Theatre Commons in 2022. A published playwright (Love is Bliss via Broadway Licensing), their work spans directing, playwriting, casting, and producing, with a focus on new play development. Réal’s credits include institutions such as Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, ACT, SF Playhouse, Breaking the Binary Theatre, and the National New Play Network. As a guest instructor at Princeton and other major institutions, they train and inspire the next generation of artists. Réal is also a minister and the co-owner of Sexii Tacos: Where the tacos are sexii and so are you. IG: @realvalanis

NATHANIEL BLAKE JOHNSON (Hours to Live), he/him, is a New York based writer who hails from Phoenix and Dallas. He received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta for English and an MFA in playwriting from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. He continually strives to push the black narrative for those voices – ancestral, modern, and forthcoming.

CHELYN COUSAR (The Doe’s in Herald Square), she/they, is a playwright, screenwriter and director from Poughkeepsie, New York residing in New York City. She was involved in Women’s Playwriting Circle at Speranza Theatre Company from 2022-2023 in New Jersey, Tiger Heart’s Players in NYC and Cut Edge Collective. She has also worked on indie film projects and always strives to learn more about the craft of writing and directing for film and theater.

ELEANOR EVANS-WICKBERG (The Ham), she/her, is a playwright and screenwriter originally from Dallas, Texas and now based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been developed with Stagefemmes, 938collective, and Good Furniture Films. She is a member of Piper Theater’s PIP (Playwrights in Process) group, and the recipient of the 2019 and 2022 James E. Michael prize in playwriting.

DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN (Comfort and Joy), she/her, is a playwright and lyricist/librettist who has won the New England New Play Competition, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Prize, Different Voices New Play Award, ACTF New Play Award and numerous development grants. Her work has been seen at Manhattan Theatre Club, Cherry Lane, Culture Project, Women’s Project, York, Theatre80, New Dramatists, Vineyard Playhouse, Brave New World, Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga, Clamour (FL), American Stage Company (FL), Left Edge (CA), Pacific Theatre (Canada), TischAsia (Singapore), Baggage Productions (Australia), Red Brick Theatre (UK), NYMF, on Ellis and Liberty Islands, at the UN, etc. www.danalesliegoldstein.com Agent: Michael Moore, Michael@MichaelMooreAgency.com

JACOB MARX RICE (Oh Christmas Tree), is a playwright and screenwriter based in Queens, New York. His play Chemistry recently opened at the Olivier-nominated Finborough Theatre, where The Guardian hailed it as “remarkable for its tender compassion” and The Stage called a “Moving, insightful love story… Rice has written a love story that treats heavy, complex subjects with confidence and compassion.” The play has also won the Excellence in Playwriting Award and FringeFAVE at the NY Fringe Festival, Producer’s Pick at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and Producer’s Encore Pick at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Jacob’s film adaptation of the play was a semifinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and is currently in development with the production company Anonymous Content.

ACTORS

JULIA BROTHERS (The Doe’s in Herald Square, “Lauren“), 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!!! Ho Ho Ho and Merry Happy Everything to Everyone! www.juliabrothers.com

TIA CASSMIRA (Hours to Live, “Lola“), she/her, is a multi-hyphenate, Trinidadian-American artist born and raised in Queens, New York. Recent credits include Sex & the Abbey (Mathilda) and All the Daughters of Viola’s House (Viola & others). Tia was on the 2024 Reading Committee for Expand the Canon, recently made her comedy debut with Recent Cutbacks, and can be seen miming alongside Broken Box Mime as a new company member. www.TiaCassmira.com

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

JULIA CROWLEY (The Ham, “Christa“), 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.

KARA GROOM (Hours to Live “Fadima“), she/her, is excited to embark on this journey with this creative cast and crew! Her select performance credits include: House of the Negro Insane (U/S Madeleine), A Love that Forgives (Addie Mae Collins), Blood Wedding (Young Girl/Third Girl). Her select film credits include: For Cole (Lead), The Brownstone Crew (Lead), and Conversations In A Diner (Supporting). This is her second time working with PlayGround NY, and she is delighted to be a part of this festival again. She hopes you enjoy the show, and wishes happy holidays to all!

SARAH GUILBAULT (The Doe’s in Herald Square, “Iris“; The Warmth of Thanksgiving, “Victor“), she/her, is a curious nuisance; a hopeful clown.

AMBER JESSIE (Hours to Live, “Neisha“), she/her, is a New York City-based actress who trained for two years at the William Esper Studio, where she studied the Meisner technique. Since completing the program in the summer of 2023, she has worked on plays, films, commercials, and podcasts. Some of her highlights include performing on Off-Off Broadway, twice, and being part of a film featured in the Chelsea Film Festival.

ERIC JUDSON (The Ham, “John“), is an arts administrator with a background in fundraising and marketing. He has worked at Playing on Air, Ravinia Festival, and most recently 101 Productions. Outside of work, he produced a reading of the Chicago premiere of Arriving At by Ike Butler. He has also written for 24-hour playwriting festivals in St. Louis and Chicago.

WILLOW LAUTENBERG (Oh Christmas Tree, “Jennie“), 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

AUTUMN MIRASSOU (Comfort and Joy Lane, “Helen“), she/her, is an actress/singer hailing from the Bay Area. You can see her work on NBC’s Law and Order: Organized Crime as Maureen Stabler, A24’s Earth Mama and The Pardon (headed to a film festival near you soon). She is thrilled and so grateful to be working with PlayGround. @autumn.mirassou

MARK PETERS (The Doe’s in Herald Square, “Gerald“), he/him, just completed a successful run of Oud Player on the Tel at HERE Arts Center. He played King Lear in A Fool’s Lear, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play at IRT in Manhattan. Other credits: The Count — La Ronde, IRT; DeGuiche — Cyrano with Gabriel Barre at St. Clement’s; Vanya — Uncle Vanya. Regional credits include: Sharky — The Seafarer, Nantucket; Frank — The Country Girl; Doc — Come Back, Little Sheba (musical) oppo­site Donna McKechnie; Emile — South Pacific; Perón — Evita; Ahab — Moby-Dick (musical ­ Katsaros-St. Germain), Boston; the revues Side by Side by Sondheim and Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill.

CARLOS RODRIGUEZ (The Warmth of Thanksgiving, “Roy”), 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

JAMES SUAREZ (The Warmth of Thanksgiving, “Kelvin”), he/him, is thrilled to be a part of the PlayGround 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.

STEPHANIE JEANE TOUSSAINT (Oh Christmas Tree, “Kelly”), she/her, is thrilled to be reading for this month’s series. Her recent credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hip to Hip Theatre), 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). Films: Driver, Beginning, Polanco, Ava & more. MFA Columbia. stephaniejeane.com

DIRECTORS

JACKSON BRADSHAW (The Warmth of Thanksgiving), they, is an interdisciplinary theatre, film, and multimedia artist with a passion for new works told through a queer lens. Selected theatrical directing credits include Remembering Morgan (Playwrights Horizons,) People Don’t Shoot Up Schools in 1930 (Theatre Row,) and The Big Boy City (Chain Theatre.) When not in the theatre, you can find Jackson working on their latest painting or making edits on an original screenplay. Jackson is thrilled to be returning to Monday Night PlayGround! You can stay up to date on their latest project by following @jacksonbradshawofficial on Instagram.

EVA BURGESS (Comfort and Joy), she/her, is a New York based director and theatre artist, whose work has been seen in the States as well as internationally. She is a deeply collaborative artist whose happiest moments include being in a room with others creating new theatrical work for the 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 and is grateful to be a part of the community.

EM HAUSMANN (Oh Christmas Tree), they/them is a Director/Theatre-Maker whose work focuses on new play development, queer + trans stories, and unique audience experiences. Recent Directing: SWIVES (First Kiss Theatre), SNOW BIRD (BAH), BEETHOVEN: LIVE IN CONCERT (Fort Salem Theater), BEST IN SHOW (The Paradise Factory), THE VERY LAST DANCE OF HOMELESS JOE (Theater for the New City). Em has worked as an associate/assistant for TheaterWorks USA, The Madison Theatre, Kitchen Sink, and New York Deaf Theatre. They are a Resident Director with the Neurodivergent New Play Series and an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). emhausmann.com @emhouseman

AUSTIN KU (Hours to Live), he/they, is a Grammy-nominated new works enthusiast. Broadway: Directing Observer, Yellowface and Oh, Mary! Off-Broadway: Co-Director, Parity (Pan Asian Rep’s NuWorks). Off-Off: Assistant Director, Tomorrow We Love (Chain Theater), Rose Does Rico (NYTF). Concert: “Everest” (NAAP’s Discover: New Musicals). Readings: Who You Kiss for Fun (Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop, virtual), “Jie Jie” (PlayGroundNY – People’s Choice Award), “Refuge to Planet Min” (Best of PlayGroundNY). Austin is also an award-winning stage and screen actor, audiobook narrator and food lover. Boston Conservatory alum. | Austin-Ku.com/directing | @secretaustinman

ANA MARGINEANU (The Doe’s in Herald Square), she/her, is a theatre director based in NYC and founder of PopUP Theatrics. Her most recent show in New York City, The War Letters, was presented at WP. Other recent credits include: Conjuring The King (Miami), Miami Motel Stories ( Miami), The Paralel City (Timisoara) and The Gods The Gods The Gods (London). Her work has received several awards, including: New York Innovation Theatre Award, Best Play Relationship Drama at London Fringe Awards, Best Show at Romanian Drama Timisoara Festival.

ABIGAIL ROSEN (The Banned; 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

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.

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.

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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 December 1, 2023 & December 16, 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+)

Paul Haahr, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Daniel E. Cohn & Lynn Brinton, John H. Gilman, Nitin, Anonymous (2)

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, Jediah Craig, David Goldman, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Regina S. Guggenheim, Just Play Productions, Linda Kremer, Ronald Whittier Family Foundation, Daniele Nathanson , Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock, John J. Ruskin, Tom Swift, Malachy Walsh, Janine Wilburn, Anonymous

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Linda Ayres-Frederick, Phoenix Theatre SF, Jim Brayton & Debbie Marr, Mr. Richard Davis – Lowell, Hillary DeMartino, Paulette Donsavage & Deeje Cooley, Kate Hecht, Diane Leonard, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Dr. Gary W. London, Molly Noble and Bob Guilbault, Diane Sampson, Marian Scheuer Sofaer & Abraham D. Sofaer

PATRON ($250-$499)

Nina Ball & Jon Tracy, Ruben & Keli Grijalva, Brandy T Jones, Jonathan Luskin, Dolores Martinez, Rebecca Martinez, Christopher Reber, Chris and Cindy Redburn, Christian Wilburn, Anonymous (5)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Naomi & Sam Abramovitz, Mary E. Baird, Ms. Portia F. Bock, Cass Brayton, Sheila Collins, Joyce Dieda, Clint Fleener, Michael Fried, Patience Haggin, Gina Harris, Ms. Sharlene Hartman, Mr. Stanley William Hathaway, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Abbe S. Kalos & Kitt Saginor, Gregg Le Blanc, Pam MacKinnon, Paris McCarthy, Kimberly Ridgeway, Ms. Jessica Rofé, Margo Rofé, Carolina Rojas Moretti, Katie Ryan, Christine Sheppard, Stan Stone, Lisa Gaye Thompson, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus, Anonymous

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 2024-25

Claire Abramovitz, Kamila Boga, Tré Calhoun, Todd Cerveris, Maisa Chiang, Chelyn Cousar, Eleanor Evans-Wickberg, Madi Fabber, Aaron Fentress, Saiya Floyd, Bailey Garcia, Dana Leslie Goldstein, Melinda Gros, Patience Haggin, Michael Hagins, Nay Harris, Bram Hartman, Miz Hashimoto, Stanley Hathaway, Ashley Hazzard, Howard Ho, Wade Hollomon, Sio Hornbuckle, LeKee Horton, Uma Incrocci, Nathaniel Johnson, Sohyun Kim, Jenny King, Janelle Lawrence, Danielle Moore, Lyra Nalan, Vicky Pham, Jacob Markx Rice, Katie Ryan, Réal Vargas Alanis, Camron Wright.

PlayGround Resident Playwrights

Michael Adams, Anthony Anello, Robyn Brooks, Bailey Jordan Garcia, Garret Groenveld, Juliet Kang Huneke, Karissa Murrell Myers, Lyra Nalan, Jacob Marx Rice, Kimberly Ridgeway, Louel Señores, Christian Wilburn.

PlayGround-NY Company

Kayla Amani, Jen Anaya, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Rebecca Aparicio, Julia Brothers, Nathaniel Claridad, Sheila Collins, Gracie Connell, Julia Crowley, 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, Charlique C. Rolle, Abigail Rosen, Betsy Rosen, Paris Ruiz, Alex Shafer, Nick Sholley, Olivia Songer, Illana Stein, Kimberly Van Vo, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, Rebecca White, Laith Zuaiter.

PlayGround Staff

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Lana Richards, Associate Director of Development
Jonathan Josephson, Director of Marketing & Communications
Norman Gee, Associate Producer
Katja Rivera, Associate Producer
Zoe Chien, Associate Producer
Tessa Corrie, Co-Casting Director
Patricia Cotter, Co-Casting Director
Brittany Mellerson, Resident Designer
Katie Brown, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Leon Jones, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Zoe Lesser, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Joey Reyes, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Amal Mazen Salem, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
Sarah Showich, 2024-25 Producing Fellow
K’Zhane McGill, Box Office Mananager
Liam Kirk, Resident Stage Manager

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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