Georgina Escobar is a NYC based playwright and visual artist from Ciudad Juárez. Her plays have been produced and developed at INTAR, Dixon Place, New York Children’s Theatre, Lincoln Center, Clubbed Thumb, Governor’s Island (NY), Milagro Theatre (OR), Aurora Theatre (GA), The Green House Theatre (IL), Duke City Rep, The Lensic (NM), Marfa Live Arts (TX), The Magic (CA), and others. Professional development includes Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writers Group, Djerassi Playwright’s Initiative, MacDowell Colony Fellow, Fornés Writing Workshop, Paula Vogel Bootcamp NYC, Playwright Observer and Lit. Associate at the O’Neill, The Brooklyn Generator, and more. She was awarded the Kennedy Center’s National Theatre for Young Audiences Award in 2011, an Outstanding Service to Women on the Border award for her production of the V-DAY Spotlight on the Women of Juárez symposium and event, and was a finalist for the 2016 National Latino Playwriting Award and semi-finalist at the O’Neill. Some of her plays include Then They Forgot About The Rest, Bi-(be), Penny Pinball Presents The Beacons, Sweep, The Ruin, Death and the Tramp, The Unbearable Likeness of Jo, Semity, & Jones, Ash Tree and Bag of Bones. Collaborations and commissions include "A Ribbon About A Bomb", "Quixote: On the Conquest of Self", "Firerock: Pass the Spark" among others. More at georginaescobar.com
