“Cashed Out,” the new play at San Francisco Playhouse, is about Rocky, a woman struggling with gambling addiction, and the effect it has on her family.

This commissioned world premiere is also a rarity on Bay Area stages — a Native American story by a Native American playwright, presented with a Native American director and a cast of Native American and indigenous actors.

Playwright Claude Jackson Jr. is a lawyer by profession, director of the public defender’s office for the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. Though he’s made some films with his brother, he’s relatively new to playwriting, and “Cashed Out” is his first production of a full-length play.