Theater & Music Theater Past Faculty

Georgina L.H. Escobar

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About

Georgina Escobar is a queer Mexican writer and maker of sci-femme narratives, musical femmetasias and frontera-futurity stories. She is a MacDowell, Djerassi Artist, Fornes Writing Group, Clubbed Thumb Writing Group & La Mama Umbria artist, and a recipient of the National Kennedy Center's Darrell Ayers Award and Outstanding Service to Women on the Border Award. Her work has been published in The Texas Review, Los Bárbaros, Routledge, McSweeney’s "I Know What's Best For You," Climate Change Theatre Action's "Lighting The Way," New Passport Press and IntiPress (UK). Her plays have been produced across the USA and internationally in Mexico, United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark and Sweden. She is an O'Neill NMTC Writer (Little Duende), NPC Finalist (Stoneheart), National Puppetry Conference Mentor and Playwright Observer. Her work has been performed Off-Broadway at INTAR, New York Children’s Theatre, Project Y, Clubbed Thumb, Lincoln Center and Bushwick Starr, and regionally at Two Rivers, Milagro, Aurora Theatre, Duke City Repertory, Greenhouse Theatre and the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. She is the recipient of the inaugural Gotham and Variety Audio Honors award for groundbreaking audio storytelling (Musings) and the creator/writer of Sonoro's Epic Sci-Femme upcoming series "Hidden Element." Her short film Monah is set to have its World Premiere at the Austin Film Festival 2022.