Georgina Escobar

El Paso, Texas

Georgina Escobar is a Mexican-American playwright, director, and arts educator whose work spans theatre, film, and audio. Her plays explore sci-femme mythologies, Latinx futurity, and speculative musical aesthetics, with productions across the U.S., Canada, México, and Europe. A 2019 Kilroys List honoree (Stoneheart) and O’Neill NMTC Writer (Little Duende), her musical theatre work includes Desaparecidas (with Jaime Lozano & Florencia Cuenca), Vinyl Cafe (with Colleen Dauncey & Akiva Romer-Segal), and Frida (with director Diane Paulus).  Escobar teaches Musical Theatre Writing at Dartmouth, with a focus on collaborative creation and speculative dramaturgy. Her published work appears in Routledge, McSweeney’s, Smith & Kraus, among others. 

Instagram: @thegeorginaescobar