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Georgina Escobar is a playwright, director and arts educator who specializes in genre with heart, including musical theatre, modern sci-fi, and other futurity femmetasias. Her practice is deeply influenced by speculative futurism and science fiction told through a feminist perspective and the narrative expression of misunderstood sites of knowledge like memory, women, deserts, and la frontera (borderlands). Her plays have been produced in México, Canada, USA, UK, Italy, Denmark & Sweden. She is a Kilroy's List Writer, and the recipient of the inaugural Gotham & Variety Audio Honors award for groundbreaking audio storytelling, the National Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award, and the Outstanding Service to the Women on the Border Award. Escobar is a Fornés Institute, La MaMa Umbria, MacDowell, Djerassi, and Candela Fellow, a Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writer's Group member and and Alcove Climate Cohort and Project Y writer. She is a National Musical Theatre Conference, Project 121 Lortel Theatre, Rhinebeck, and NAMT Writer (Little Duende) and a National Playwrights Conference Finalist (Stoneheart, 2021 and 2024). Her work has been featured and published in The Texas Review, Routledge, Theatre Topics, Smith & Kraus, Los Bárbaros Spain, McSweeny's Press ("I Know What's Best For You", Inti Press UK, and more. Her plays have been produced Off Broadway at INTAR (Then they forgot about The Rest), Off-Off at Dixon Place (Jones) and JACK (Desaparecidas), and developed in NY and regionally at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, New York Children's Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Lincoln Center, Bushwick Starr, La MaMa, Two Rivers, Milagro Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Duke City Repertory, and more.Her short film MONAH was a selection at the Austin Film Festival, El Paso Film Festival, and the Brooklyn Sci-Fi Festival. Her short plays have been featured across the country and internationally as part of initiatives like "After Orlando", Climate Change Theatre Action, The Future is Female, and EMILIA ROMAGNA TEATRO FONDAZIONE: Planet B. Un mondo ancora possibile? As an arts educator she has taught at Kingsborough College (CUNY), University of Texas at El Paso, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College. She serves on the Board of the El Paso Holocaust Museum, Marfa Live Arts, is on the Advisory Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons. Escobar is represented by Bret Adams Agency (Theatre; New York) and 3 Arts Entertainment (TV/Film; Los Angeles).
Theater
Selected Publications
Georgina Escobar's scholarly and creative work spans theatrical innovation, Latinx performance, and environmental justice through drama. Her contributions include chapters in several prominent academic volumes, such as The Routledge Companion of Latinx Theatre and Performance (2024), and the co-authored essay "Imaginative Collaboration: The Student Stage Manager and New Work" featured in Undergraduate Research in Theatre (Routledge, 2021). She also contributed the scene "Sweep" to Scenes for Latinx Actors (Smith & Kraus, 2019).
Her plays have been included in multiple anthologies spotlighting socially engaged theatre. These include The Future Is Not Fixed: Short Plays Envisioning a Global Green New Deal (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2022) with the short play All Its Tainted Glory, and Lighting The Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About The Climate Crisis (Climate Change Theatre Action, 2021), featuring her piece A Dog Loves Mango. Additionally, an excerpt from her work Monsters We Create appears in I Know What's Best For You, edited by Shelly Oria (McSweeney's Books, 2022).
Escobar's translation and editorial work includes Cosmica by Gabriela Fuentes (Inti Press, 2022) and the bilingual publication of Cosmic (Cósmica) with NoPassport Press (2019). Her original play Matted was published in The Texas Review (Vol. 38, 2019), and her scholarly article "The Frontera Aesthetic: Devising A Hybrid Model of New Work Creation" appeared in Theatre Topics (2021, co-written).
Her early theoretical exploration, Playwright as Enchanter: A Compositional Method for Dramatic Writing, was published by Lambert Academic Publishing in 2011.
Workshops, Panels, and Conference Participation
Georgina Escobar is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and thought leader whose work in dramatic writing, Latinx futurity, and eco-theatre has been featured in national and international convenings. Most recently, she served as a Playwriting Respondent for KCACTF Region XI (2025) and delivered the keynote address at the Colorado Equity Summit(2022), speaking on "Restoring the Self and Creative Activism in Dramatic Writing."
Escobar's panel and workshop engagements have included appearances at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center(2022), HowlRound TV's Latinx Superfriends Playwriting Hour (2020), and Stages Repertory Theatre (2019), where she led a workshop on world-building. She has participated in experimental and research-based gatherings such as the Hemispheric Institute Encuentro in Mexico City (2019), where she joined the working group "Becoming Porous: Performing with(in) Climate Chaos." Her other workshop residencies include Aurora Theatre (GA), Marfa Live Arts(TX), and The Lark (NY), where she was part of the think tank "Re-Imagining the Mexico/US Project."
As a frequent contributor to academic and professional theatre conferences, Escobar has presented her research and creative process at the Latinx Theatre Commons 10-Year Reunion (2024), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) (2020–2021), and Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). Her presentations have addressed topics such as protest theatre, radical imagination, and transnational organizing, with a focus on her "frontera new-work" model.
Escobar has also led workshops and delivered keynotes at several Kennedy Center American College Theater Festivals (KCACTF), including Region I, VI, and XI, where she facilitated sessions like The Playwright's Toolkit and Playwright as Enchanter. Additional academic engagements include speaking at Sam Houston State University's Mosaic: Artists Summit (2021), the Fashion Institute of Technology (2021), and the UTEP Women's and Gender Studies Conference(2020), where she presented work on Monsters We Create: A Frontera Funk Tale.
Early in her career, she was featured on panels at HB Studios (NYC), Emerson College, and the Revolutions International Theatre Festival, contributing to national conversations on cross-cultural and borderless theatre practices.
Workshops, Panels, and Conference Participation
Georgina Escobar is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and thought leader whose work in dramatic writing, Latinx futurity, and eco-theatre has been featured in national and international convenings. Most recently, she served as a Playwriting Respondent for KCACTF Region XI (2025) and delivered the keynote address at the Colorado Equity Summit(2022), speaking on "Restoring the Self and Creative Activism in Dramatic Writing."
Escobar's panel and workshop engagements have included appearances at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center(2022), HowlRound TV's Latinx Superfriends Playwriting Hour (2020), and Stages Repertory Theatre (2019), where she led a workshop on world-building. She has participated in experimental and research-based gatherings such as the Hemispheric Institute Encuentro in Mexico City (2019), where she joined the working group "Becoming Porous: Performing with(in) Climate Chaos." Her other workshop residencies include Aurora Theatre (GA), Marfa Live Arts(TX), and The Lark (NY), where she was part of the think tank "Re-Imagining the Mexico/US Project."
As a frequent contributor to academic and professional theatre conferences, Escobar has presented her research and creative process at the Latinx Theatre Commons 10-Year Reunion (2024), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) (2020–2021), and Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). Her presentations have addressed topics such as protest theatre, radical imagination, and transnational organizing, with a focus on her "frontera new-work" model.
Escobar has also led workshops and delivered keynotes at several Kennedy Center American College Theater Festivals (KCACTF), including Region I, VI, and XI, where she facilitated sessions like The Playwright's Toolkit and Playwright as Enchanter. Additional academic engagements include speaking at Sam Houston State University's Mosaic: Artists Summit (2021), the Fashion Institute of Technology (2021), and the UTEP Women's and Gender Studies Conference(2020), where she presented work on Monsters We Create: A Frontera Funk Tale.
Early in her career, she was featured on panels at HB Studios (NYC), Emerson College, and the Revolutions International Theatre Festival, contributing to national conversations on cross-cultural and borderless theatre practices.
Her plays and musicals have been developed and produced internationally, with premieres at INTAR, Clubbed Thumb, Lincoln Center, in NYC and the Los Angeles Theatre Center. A MacDowell and Djerassi Fellow, she is an O'Neill NMTC Writer, a Kilroys List honoree, and recipient of awards from the Kennedy Center and the Gotham & Variety Audio Honors.