Gina Young (she/they) is an award-winning playwright, director, songwriter, and curator of live performance. Her plays and musicals include This Is Why I Don’t Come Home, STRAIGHT PLAY: a queer beach blanket musical, sSISTERSs, BUTCH BALLET, and Femmes: A Tragedy. Their screenwriting debut ROOM TONE, starring Roberta Colindrez (Fun Home, Cult of Love) and directed by Whitney White (WALDEN, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding), is a winner and finalist at numerous film festivals worldwide.

Gina’s work has been presented by The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), REDCAT, Los Angeles Performance Practice, USC’s Visions &Voices Series, The Annenberg Community Beach House, Greystone Mansion, The Los Angeles LGBT Center, and the Feminist Center for Creative Work, as well as nationally and internationally.

Gina is a winner of the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting, a two-time finalist for Center Theatre Group’s Sherwood Award for boundary-pushing theatre artists, a winner of a MAP Fund Grant, and a winner of the Humanitas/PLAY LA Prize. She is a member of the Kilroys, the Dramatists Guild, and the Ring of Keys. They studied Drama at NYU/Tisch.

At the core of Gina’s creative practice is making space for marginalized voices. She is the creator of SORORITY, a salon for new short works by women, trans, nonbinary, and queer performing artists working in Los Angeles. They are also the creator of Feminist Acting Class, a radical experiment in actor training that seeks to eliminate institutionalized bias. They carry this practice of uplifting marginalized voices into all of the work that they do, and have worked with arts organizations in numerous capacities ranging from consulting to marketing, including Center Theatre Group, Seattle Opera, LA Opera, and the Performance Art Museum.

Photo by Owen Scarlett courtesy of The Center for Provocative Thought