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Potrero Stage / San Francisco / February 2-19, 2017

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR“Like Rome and other great cities, San Francisco is a city of villages on hills. Potrero Hill is thequintessential village-on-a-hill, and all phases of San Francisco history have been portrayedon it.” – Kevin Starr (1940-2017), California State Librarian Emeritus

On December 1, 2015, PlayGround announced perhaps the biggest news in the company’sthen-twenty-two-year history. “Really??” you say. Bigger than when PlayGround begancommissioning full-length plays in 2002? Bigger than when PlayGround moved the MondayNight series to Berkeley Rep in 2003? Bigger than when PlayGround began co-producing itscommissions with local partners, starting with San Francisco Playhouse and Aaron Loeb’s FirstPerson Shooter in 2007? Yes, bigger than all of these. This was REALLY big news.

On that day a little more than a year ago, we announced that PlayGround, thequintessential nomadic theatre company had taken on the master lease at Thick House, ourSan Francisco home since 2008. But that news was really just the beginning.

Over the last thirteen months, this little-engine-that-could has raised more than $250,000in support of critical improvements to Thick House: new air-conditioning, seats, theatricallighting, signage, upgraded lobby and restrooms, which you are enjoying tonight, for the firsttime. And with the make-over, we’ve also given the theatre a new name… Potrero Stage: ThePlayGround Center for New Plays.

Potrero Stage will serve as the go-to place for the very best new plays the Bay Area hasto offer, including new seasons by Crowded Fire and Golden Thread, 3Girls’ latest New WorksFestival, a production by Virago Theatre Company, and more. And what about PlayGround?

To mark the grand re-opening of the theatre, we commissioned eight PlayGround alumni– Patricia Cotter, Victoria Chong Der, Ruben Grijalva, Garret Jon Groenveld, Genevieve Jessee,Martha Soukup, Maury Zeff, and Ignacio Zulueta – to help create a theatrical imagining ofPotrero Hill’s past, present and future. Tonight you see the fruits of those labors – The PotreroNuevo Project, the inaugural production of the new Potrero Stage. Thank you for joining usfor this bold adventure through time – more than 250 years in just 90 minutes. We hope thiswill be the first of many productions you’ll see in the coming years at Potrero Stage!

- Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround

268 Bush St #2912San Francisco, CA 94104

(415) 992-6677 (office)(415) 704-3177 (fax)

[email protected]

James A. KleinmannArtistic Director

Annie StuartAssociate Director

Board of Directors

Regina GuggenheimChair

James A.KleinmannPresident

Kate ClarvoeTreasurer

Beverly ButlerSecretary

Aldo BillingsleaRuben GrijalvaMolly NoblePatrick O’BrienGeetha ReddyPatrick ReillyCherie SongDavid G. Steele

POTRERO STAGE BUILDERSPlayGround is deeply grateful for the supporters who made the Potrero Stage renovations possible: Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation, Fred M. Levin & Nancy Livingston, Art Space DevelopmentCorporation, Koret Foundation, Beverly Butler, The Leo J. And Celia Carlin Fund, Karen Chakmakian,The Clarvoe Family, Claudia Mahecha Design, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Regina S.Guggenheim & Paul Schoening, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Aaron Loeb & Kathy Roberts, GwenLoeb & Doyle Ott, Patrick J. & Kate O’brien, Patrick Reilly, Catharine Riggs & John S. Witte, JasonRosha, Studio Rosha Interiors, Diane Sampson, David G. Steele, Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund.


PLAYGROUNDJames A. Kleinmann, Artistic Director

presents

THE POTRERO NUEVO PROJECTLOS CALIFORNIOS by Ignacio Zulueta

directed by Katja Rivera

THE CROSSING by Patricia Cotter

directed by Jim Kleinmann

TENT CITY by Martha Soukup

directed by Margo Hall

ON THE DOCKS by Garret Jon Groenvelddirected by Katja Rivera

FULL STEAM AHEAD by Ruben Grijalva

directed by Norman Gee

GRACEDby Victoria Chong Der

directed by Norman Gee

WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN by Genevieve Jessee

directed by Margo Hall

POTRARIUM UNBOUND by Maury Zeff

directed by Jim Kleinmann

Production ManagerMarcus Marotto

Costume DesignerTammy Berlin

Slide Show CuratorEmily Gogol

Lighting & Sound Designer / Stage ManagerMarissa Marshall

Properties ArtisanTing Na Wang

Historical ConsultantPeter Linenthal

Potrero Hill Archives Project


CAST(in order of appearance)

LOS CALIFORNIOSMr. Californio...................................................................... Carlos AguirreMrs. Californio................................................................ Cathleen Riddley *Padre Abella/Ludovic Choris....................................................... JD Scalzo

THE CROSSINGKit Carson.............................................................................. Jessica Bates *Ramon De Haro...................................................................... Jed ParsarioFrancisco De Haro............................................................ Melvign BadiolaJose de los Reyes Berryessa.................................................Carlos Aguirre

TENT CITYAndrew...................................................................................Soren Oliver *Janet...................................................................................... Jessica Bates *Rudy................................................................................. Melvign Badiola

ON THE DOCKSOne........................................................................................ Jessica Bates *Two.........................................................................................Soren Oliver *Mike.............................................................................................JD Scalzo

FULL STEAM AHEADThe Bartender........................................................................Jessica Bates *Guy/German Guy/Steese....................................................... Soren Oliver *Girl/British Girl................................................................Cathleen Riddley *Fritz Maytag................................................................................ JD Scalzo

GRACEDDaniel............................................................................... Melvign BadiolaGrace.................................................................................Karen OffereinsPa............................................................................................Jed Parsario

WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWNVernice............................................................................ Cathleen Riddley *Henry...................................................................................Carlos AguirreJaleel....................................................................................... Jed Parsario

POTRARIUM UNBOUNDVernice............................................................................ Cathleen Riddley *Two...................................................................................Melvign BadiolaThe Bartender........................................................................Jessica Bates *Hunter Cartwright.................................................................. Soren Oliver *Teslina Cartwright............................................................. Karen OffereinsPez.......................................................................................... Jed ParsarioPadre........................................................................................... JD Scalzo

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Unionof Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

This Theatre operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association,the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.


WHO’S WHO

PATRICIA COTTER’s (The Crossing) awardsinclude: American Academy of Arts Letters,Richard Rodgers Award, Heideman AwardFinalist. Plays: Rules Of Comedy 39th HumanaFestival of New American Plays, 2015; TheAnthropology Section, The Actors Theatre ofLouisville; The Surrogate, (2016 O’NeillNationalPlaywrights Conference finalist); premieres atThe Centenary Stage Company in 2017. VICTORIA CHONG DER (GraceD) has written forseveral Bay Area companies. She is a residentplaywright of the Playwrights Foundation,received a 2014 PlayGround Fellowship, and hasa BA in Creative Writing from Oberlin College.Catch another one of her short dramedies fromFeb 17-25: www.thosewomenproductions.comGARRET JON GROENVELD (On the Docks) is afounding writer with PlayGround. His full lengthworks include Missives, The Serving Class, TheHummingbirds, The Empty Nesters and The Twin.His plays have been produced in Amsterdam,Berlin, Bucharest, Mexico City, New York, SanFrancisco and Zaragoza, Spain.RUBEN GRIJALVA’s (Full Steam Ahead) full lengthplays include Foresight (2010) and the EgertonNew Play Award winning Value OverReplacement (2016). He loves working in thisneighborhood and is thrilled to be a small partof the Potrero Stage re-opening.GENEVIEVE JESSEE (Walls Come Tumbling Down)received a B.A. in Theatre Arts from DillardUniversity of New Orleans, and an M.F.A. inPlaywriting from Boston University. Her work hasbeen presented at the Source Festival, BostonPlaywright’s Theater, DIVAfest and the AtlantaBlack Theatre Festival. MARTHA SOUKUP (Tent City) has won the JuneAnne Baker Prize from PlayGround and theNebula Award for science fiction. Her short storycollection is The Arbitrary Placement of Walls.MAURY ZEFF’s (Potrarium Unbound) plays havewon three PlayGround People’s Choice Awardsand have been performed in Best of PlayGround2014 and around the country. He received aPlayGround Emerging Playwright Award and hasan MFA from the Univ. of San Francisco.IGNACIO ZULUETA (Los Californios) is aPlayGround resident playwright, a literaryassociate at AlterTheater, and the WorldDesigner and Oracle for Epic Immersive, creatingmassive site-specific productions at Fort MasonCenter, San Jose’s History Park, and more.

CARLOS AGUIRRE (Los Californios,The Crossing, Walls Come TumblingDown) has been performing bothas an actor and hip-hop artist inthe Bay Area for over 18 years. Hemost recently appeared in SarahShourd’s THE BOX at

Zspace. Carlos shares his experience by teaching atvarious Bay Area schools and at-risk environments.

MELVIGN BADIOLA (The Crossing,Tent City, GraceD, PotrariumUnbound), based out of Oakland, isthrilled to work with PlayGroundfor the first time and christen thenew Potrero Stage! He also toursas a Stage Manager and manages

Brava Theater’s Youth Program, [email protected] BATES* (The Crossing,Tent City, On the Docks, Full SteamAhead, Potrarium Unbound) hasbeen acting for nearly 20 years,both nationally and abroad.Recent projects include; TheLyons (Aurora Theatre), In A

Word and 123 (SF Playhouse Sandbox series),Swimmers (Marin Theatre), and The Far NearShore (Metabolic Films).

KAREN OFFEREINS (GraceD,Potrarium Unbound) is thrilled tobe making her PlayGrounddebut. She was last seen in SFPlayhouse’s The Rules and hasperformed with Shotgun Playersand Theatreworks. Next, she can

be seen in Cutting Ball’s Phèdre opening this April.SØREN OLIVER* (Tent City, Onthe Docks, Full Steam Ahead,Potrarium Unbound) hasworked locally at MagicTheatre, Cal Shakes, San JoseRep, Marin Theatre Company,Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Rep,

The Jewish Theatre of SF Word for Word and wasthe founding Artistic Director of Central Works.

JED PARSARIO (The Crossing,GraceD, Walls Come TumblingDown, Potrarium Unbound) isdelighted to work withPlayGround and absolutelythrilled to be part of the grandopening of Potrero Stage. He

would like to thank Annie and Jim for welcominghim into the PlayGround family. Check me outMom! www.jedparsario.com

PLAYWRIGHTS ACTORS


CATHLEEN RIDDLEY* (LosCalifornios, Full Steam Ahead, WallsCome Tumbling Down, PotrariumUnbound) is so proud to be a partof this project. She has been seenall over in Bay Area Theatre. She isan alumna of The Juilliard School

Drama Division, a certified ASL Interpreter, and isworking with incarcerated men in San Quentin.

JD SCALZO (Los Californios, On theDocks, Full Steam Ahead, PotrariumUnbound) was recently in Sons ofthe Prophet at New ConservatoryTheater Center and has workedwith Breadbox, TheatreRhino,LeftCoast, and FaultLine. He can

be seen in the upcoming series Gay Husbands ofSan Francisco on Revry.tv. www.jdscalzo.com.

NORMAN GEE (Full Steam Ahead, GraceD), thefounder and artistic director of the OaklandPublic Theater, is pleased to join PlayGround’sdirecting pool. He is currently performing inDeath of A Salesman with Ubuntu Theater.MARGO HALL (Tent City, Walls Come TumblingDown) is an actress/director/playwright who hasperformed and directed for numerous theatersthroughout the Bay. She is excited to be a part ofthe launch of the new Potrero Stage and thismonumental step in the journey of PlayGround!JIM KLEINMANN (The Crossing, PotrariumUnbound) co-founded PlayGround in 1994 andhas served as Artistic Director since 1996. He isa veteran arts administrator with more than 25years of experience, including serving as chiefexecutive for some of the Bay Area’s leadingperforming arts organizations. He received hisMFA from the Yale School of Drama. KATJA RIVERA (Los Californios, On the Docks) is anactor/director/writer originally from Los Angeles.She is an artistic associate with Shotgun Playersand PlayGround, and a proud member of AEA.Directing credits include Custom Made Theatre,PlayGround, Shotgun Players, and DouglasMorrison Theatre. Acting credits include MagicTheatre, Shotgun Players, and Boxcar Theater.

TAMMY BERLIN (Costume Designer) has mostrecently designed shows for Marin ShakespeareCompany, Bay Area Children’s Theatre, BerkeleyOpera, Diablo Theatre Co., St. Mary’s College, andBerkeley Playhouse, as well as films for Flying MooseProductions, Videosyncrasy and EyeQ Films. She isthe resident costume designer for Central Works.

EMILY GOGOL (Slide Show Curator) is alwayscooking up something! An active communityorganizer, she brings together people and placesas co-founder of Pennsylvania Street Gardensand at the Connecticut Friendship Garden. Emilyalso brings people and art together;see www.streeturchin.studioMARCUS MAROTTO (Production Manager) ispleased to continue working with PlayGround asProduction Manager. Marcus has worked intechnical theatre for many years throughout theBay, working at, the Easily Distracted Theatre,Opera San Jose, and the San Francisco Lyric Opera.MARISSA MARSHALL (Lighting & Sound Designer;Stage Manager), aka Tyger Madenda, is a "Jill ofAll Trades" professional who began her trainingat BRAVA's SF Running Crew program. Long storyshort, she's been a theatrical bad-ass for the past16 years. Honored to be part of this new chapterfor PlayGround.ANNIE STUART (Associate Director) has served ascasting director for PlayGround for the past eighteenseasons and in 2005 was named the company’s firstAssociate Director. As a freelance casting director,her other credits include Marin Theatre Company,SF Playhouse, Center REP, the Bay Area PlaywrightsFestival, Brava, and Z Space Studio, among others.TING NA WANG (Properties Artisan) is aTaiwanese-native scenic designer, painter andprops designer of the Bay Area. Her recent creditsinclude props design for YellowFace and Assassins with Los Atos Stage, CasaValentina with New Conservatory Theatre, TheLittle Mermaid and Into The Woods with Palo AltoPlayers, and Best of PlayGround 20 at PlayGround.PLAYGROUND, the Bay Area’s leading playwrightincubator, provides unique developmentopportunities for the Bay Area’s best newplaywrights, including the monthly Monday NightPlayGround staged reading series, annualPlayGround Festival of New Works, full-length playcommissions and production support through theNew Play Production Fund. To date, PlayGroundhas supported over 200 local playwrights in thedevelopment and staging of more than 800 originalshort plays and 71 new full-length plays, with 8more commissions currently in development.POTRERO STAGE is a 99-seat state-of-the-artperformance space located in the heart of SanFrancisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, operated byPlayGround, and serving as home to some of theBay Area’s leading new play developers andproducers, including PlayGround, Crowded Fire,Golden Thread, and 3Girls Theatre, among others.For more information or to inquire about rentals,email [email protected] or call (415) 992-6677.

DIRECTORS

DESIGN & PRODUCTION


PLAYGROUND CONTRIBUTORSPlayGround is deeply grateful for the generous contributions of the many individuals, foundations, corporations and governmentagencies whose contributions make our work possible. This list reflects gifts of $125 or more committed between January 1,2016 and January 31, 2017.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, AND FOUNDATION DONORSActors’ Equity Foundation • Alameda County Arts Commission • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • BillGraham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund • Blackrock • Creative CapacityFund • Dramatists Guild Fund • Edgerton Foundation • Electronic Arts • The Fleishhacker Foundation • Grants For The Arts/SanFrancisco Hotel Tax Fund • Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust • IBM Corporation • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation• Kenneth Rainin Foundation • Koret Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • San Francisco Arts Commission • TheShenson Foundation • The Shubert Foundation • Stanford University • Sustainable World Coalition/ Planet Earth Arts • TheTournesol Project • Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Wells Fargo • WomenArts

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)William Bivins, Beverly Butler, John H. Gilman, Carole & Ted Krumland, Zandra Faye LeDuff, Fred M. Levin & Nancy Livingston,Aaron Loeb & Kathy Roberts, Jill Matichak, Diane Sampson, David Steele, Anonymous (3)

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)Kellie Abreu, Maurice Bolmer, Meriko Borogove, Nicolas & Robin Castaillac, Adam Chall, Kate & Anthony Clarvoe, Daniel E.Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Keith Goldstein & Donna N. Warrington, Judy & Ruben Grijalva, Regina S. Guggenheim & PaulSchoening, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann, Patrick J. & Kate O’Brien, Patrick Reilly, Abraham Sofaer, Bob & Sara Stevenson,Lisa & James Taylor, Maya Lis Tussing & Darren Adkinson, Anonymous (5)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)Wendy Bear, Stan & Sophie Beraznik, Aldo Billingslea, Patrick Blake, Karen Chakmakian, Claire M. Chessen & Alan J. Horwitz,Adriana Clark, Amy Claussen, Jeff & Dayna Deaton, John Ford, Michelle Gaines, Matt Gonzalez, Dana Harrison, Jofish Kaye,Enrique Landa, Gwen Loeb & Doyle Ott, Dr. Gary W. London, Douglas Love, Toni Martin & Michael Darby, Christopher Michel,Rob & Suki Moore, Peter Myers, Cindy & Chris Redburn, Catharine Riggs & John S. Witte, Anonymous, Patti & Rusty Rueff,David Schneiderman, Bruce & Diane Shimano, Russell Stanaland, Daniel & Katherine Teree, Susannah Wise & Scott Lebus,Maury Zeff, Anonymous (2)

PATRON ($250-$499)Jessica L. Bates, David Beery & Norman Abramson, Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Tony Conrad, Joe Corey, Deborah andPeter Davids, Ben De Waal, Andrew Dreskin, Sharon Eberhardt & Perrin Meyer, Barbara Frick, Michele Goller, Roxy Jones,Meghan Martin, Dawn McGuire, Daniel Owens, Austin Philbin, Martha Richards, Marsha Roberts, Hillary Sinclair, Tim Stannard,Jonathan Steele, Jon and Susan Sweedler, Tom Swift, Elizabeth Werter & Henry Trevor, Anonymous

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)Dennis & Jan Austin, Mary Baird, Lauren Berman, Cass Brayton, Joy Carlin, Len Christensen & Bernadette Kim, StevenFlannes, Michael Fried, Ruben Grijalva, Randy Hoffman, Carolyn Holm, Tom Hunter, Kurt & Dianne Kleinmann, GeorgeMaguire, Cecily T. Martin, Kerrin Mitchell, Madeline Puccioni, Virginia Reed, Deborah Santana, Kirk Shimano, Eric Starr, HarryWong, Anonymous

IN-KIND SUPPORTERSAmerican Conservatory Theater, Liz Anderson, Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Blue Moon Bed &Breakfast, Bon Vivants, California Shakespeare Theater, Dan Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Crowded Fire, Electronic Arts, ReginaGuggenheim, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Joie de Vivre Hotels, Chad Jones, Jim Kleinmann & Lara Gilman,Brady Lea, Aaron Loeb & Kathy Roberts, Marin Theatre Company, Jill Matichak, Jonathan Moscone, Nickel & Nickel, MollyNoble, Patrick J. O’Brien, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pixar, PlayGround, Ragged Wing Ensemble, San FranciscoPlayhouse, Shotgun Players, Smuin Ballet, St. George Spirits, David Steele, TheatreWorks, Thirsty Bear, John & PamelaGaye Walker, Lauren Yee, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Z Space.

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