BIO

Gina Young (she/they) is an award-winning writer, director, performer and curator. Recent work for the stage includes STRAIGHT PLAY (a queer beach blanket musical), developed with Ammo Theater Writers Lab under Bernardo Cubria and workshopped with Los Angeles Performance Practice and Son of Semele; and BUTCH BALLET, a movement-theatre piece for a cast of butch women, trans men and nonbinary performers developed at REDCAT's NOW Festival and upcoming at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Recent work for the screen includes ROOM TONE, starring A League of Their Own's Roberta Colindrez and directed by Broadway's Whitney White, which is a winner and finalist at film festivals worldwide.

 

Born and raised in Washington DC, influenced by riot grrrl and third wave feminist activism, Gina came of age creating experimental musicals at NYC's legendary WOW Cafe Theatre. They currently live in Los Angeles where their work has been presented by The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), REDCAT, Highways, Los Angeles Performance Practice, USC’s Visions & Voices Series, The Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Annenberg Community Beach House, and the Feminist Center for Creative Work. They are a winner of the HUMANITAS/PLAY LA Prize, a two-time Finalist for Center Theatre Group’s Sherwood Award, and a winner of the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting for Femmes: A Tragedy.

 

Young has toured nationally and internationally with original performance work, and worked closely with world-renowned creators such as Ryan Heffington, Joey Soloway, and Cassils.

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In 2016, Gina founded SORORITY, a new works salon for women, trans and queer performing artists that has presented the work of hundreds of performers and become a hub for queer and feminist performance in LA. Young is also the creator of Feminist Acting Class, a revolutionary experiment in actor training that has been presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, The Hammer Museum, WTFCon, Directors Lab West, and numerous universities nationwide.

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Gina studied Drama at NYU/Tisch. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Ring of Keys and The Kilroys. Their writing has appeared in The New Yorker and Seattle's The Stranger. Their primary interest is queering content and form.