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About Me

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Hey there, you found me! My name is Gina (they/them) and I'm a playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, performer, and writing instructor. My writing process is research-driven and collaborative, focusing on stories of healing and self-discovery that challenge societal norms.

 

My work has been supported through a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council/NEA and a writing residency with The Ragdale Foundation.

I was a 2024 nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the 2021 winner of the Kernodle New Play Award, the 2020 winner of the New Works Initiative at Good Luck Macbeth, and a 2019 winner of the Columbia@Roundabout New Play Reading Series.

My plays have been produced and developed in NYC and regionally with Vermont Stage, Roundabout Theatre Company, American Stage, Barter Theatre Company, Urban Stages, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, The Tank, and more.

 

I have been a finalist for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Award, the Jewish Playwriting Contest, Austin Film Festival Pitch Competition, Big Apple Film Festival, and a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award (twice), O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (three times), The Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the Ashland New Plays Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival (three times), Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Premiere Stages Play Festival, and more. 

 

I've been a guest lecturer at NYU, the University of Arkansas, Hunter College, and the University of Vermont. As a dramaturg, I have supported both classics and new works with La MaMa E.T.C, Vermont Shakespeare Festival, Middlebury Acting Company, and more. I hold a BFA in Theater from NYU and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.

Dramaturgy
& More

Dramaturgy

The Flynn Performing Arts Center

Student Matinee Series Study Guides

(2024-2025 & 2023-2024 Seasons)

Vermont Shakespeare Festival's

Shakespeare: Completely Unbound

(Summer 2021)

Middlebury Acting Company's
American Dream Project (Spring 2021)

     THE ROYALE by Marco Ramirez

     THE NICETIES by Eleanor Burgess

SPOILED by Elizabeth Hess

The Hess Collective

Dixon Place (April 2019)

La Mama E.T.C. (March 2020) 

*cancelled due to COVID-19

NO COMMONER TALE by Quinn Rol

Classics on the Rocks

Shetler Studios (March 2019)

NOW EVERYONE GO AROUND THE TABLE AND SAY WHAT THEY'RE THANKFUL FOR

Devised & directed by nicHi Douglas

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Experimental Theatre Wing

Loewe Theater (December 2017)

Artistic Assisting

Writing Assistant to TV writer James Manos (Summer 2019-December 2021)

Developing projects for BMW, HBO Max, the UN, & more

IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD 

Assistant to writer and performer Eve Ensler

Manhattan Theatre Club (January-March 2018)

MONSOON WEDDING

Assistant to lyricist Susan Birkenhead

NY development workshop (March 2017)

Memberships

Affiliate Artist - The Hess Collective

Member - The Dramatists Guild

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