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, which is published by NoPassportPress. Their screenwriting debut ROOM TONE, starring A League of Their Own’s Roberta Colindrez, 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 Los Angeles LGBT Center, and the Feminist Center for Creative Work, as well as nationally and internationally. Gina is the creator of SORORITY, a salon for new short works by women, trans, nonbinary, and queer performing artists working in Los Angeles. She is also the creator of Feminist Acting Class, a radical experiment in actor training that seeks to eliminate institutionalized bias.

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, and a winner of the Humanitas/PLAY LA Prize.