Georgina Escobar is a playwright in New York via Ciudad Juárez. Her plays have been seen and developed at INTAR, Dixon Place, The Flea, Lincoln Center, Clubbed Thumb, Governor’s Island, Milagro Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Duke City Rep, Marfa Live Arts, The Magic, The Lensic, and others. Professional development includes the Djerassi Playwright’s Initiative, MacDowell, the Fornés Writing Workshop, the Kennedy Center’s National Theatre for Young Audiences Award, and The Lit Associate gig at the O’Neill. She was a finalist for the 2016 National Latino Playwriting Award, and is the recipient of an Outstanding Service to Women of the Border Award 2004 and the Kennedy Center National Theatre for Young Audiences Award 2011.
Some of her plays include Bi-(be); The Beacons; Sweep; The Ruin; All Strings Considered; Death and the Tramp; The Unbearable Likeness of Jo, Semity, & Jones; Ash Tree; and The CircuΩ. Collaborations include A Ribbon About A Bomb, Quixote: On the Conquest of Self, and Firerock: Pass the Spark (formerly known as Coal.)
At MacDowell, Escobar completed a first draft of a new play, Stoneheart. This deconstructed western set in Escobar’s native Ciudad Juarez landscape between 1969-1987 will have a workshop reading as part of the Sol Project in New York. Stoneheart began at the Maria Irene Fornés Writing Workshop in Chicago in 2017, and the full length version was finished at MacDowell in 2018.
