JENNIFER SAGINOR was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where she still lives. She has worked in production and development at Spelling Entertainment, Miramax Films, and the Motion Picture Corporation of America.

Information and Background on Playground from Jennifer

PLAYGROUND began as a therapeutic way of expressing my anger and outrage at my parents. I decided to channel my anger into words and conform them into higher meaning and value. I find it interesting how our parents shape our behavior and sexuality, the roles we develop into as children. There is a lingering emptiness -a constant cocoon of anxiety I live inside as a result of a traumatic childhood, the ramifications of terror and verbal abuse: thoughts of finding comfort in avenging myself by identifying and stopping the reckless pursuit of parental neglect.

I battle the Freudian sexual side affects of an overbearing, abrasive, violent father who has no sense of boundaries and a cold, unemotional, bitter mother, who still lives in denial. My lack of parenting was transformed into a physical relationship where I found the warmth, love and affection I never received.

I am forever perplexed by my parents' obsession with weight and the dichotomy they represent: my father, a diet doctor helps people starve themselves; while my mother, a psychologist who specializes in eating disorders, counsels those who are starving.

How ironic that one daughter will eat to fill the void, while the other one won't eat at all, hoping love may come along and save her.

While the surrealism of the Playboy Mansion and glitz of Hollywood provides a compelling hook, the heart of the story explores the complex, confused, and painful dynamics of family relationships from a child's point of view.