The Potrero Nuevo Project
To mark the grand re-opening of Potrero Stage (formerly Thick House), PlayGround has 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 of Potrero Hill’s past, present and future. Through The Potrero Nuevo Project, audiences will journey over 250 years to experience the people, places, and times that shaped this region: the Ohlone who first hunted and fished here; the Spanish missionaries and early Californios who began settling the region; Kit Carson, the De Haro twins, and the launch of the Mexican-American War; survivors of the 1906 earthquake; Fritz Maytag and the birth of the craft brewing movement; a Potrero Annex family on the eve of the Hope SF reconstruction, and beyond. The Potrero Nuevo Project, helmed by Norman Gee, PlayGround Company Members Margo Hall and Katja Rivera and Founding Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann, runs February 2-19.