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BORN IN CIUDAD JUÁREZ RAISED & SHAPED IN ZACATECAS GROWN IN EL PASO MARINATED IN NEW MEXICO MARRIED TO MANHATTAN MUSING for MADRID. 
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After the death of my mother forced me to move to the United States of America, I set out to discover everything about the in-between-ness, the what if-ness and the speculative possibilities that can inspire us to move towards a more equitable, sustainable, and kindness-forward human existence. I rewrote stories, I imagined dystopias and utopias, I went seeking for the lessons behind loss, and kept close the advice of my matriarch family which reminded me that as we think, we are. I like to imagine the worst, the best, the better, the now, the thens, the not-yet and the nevers and I find it in music, in paint, in words, in friendships, and living. Because joy is our right. Because grief is life. Because we must be creative, for our species sake.
A Ciudad Juárez native and international playwright & director, Escobar is a Rhinebeck, MacDowell, Djerassi, Fornés, Clubbed Thumb, & La Mama Umbria Resident & Artist. The recipient of the National Darrell Ayers Award & Outstanding Service to Women on the Border Award, 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 work has been featured in the Kilroys List (StoneHeart), The Texas Review (Matted), Los Bárbaros | Lxs Bárbarxs (Pies Pa'Que), McSweeny's Press ("I Know What's Best For You"), New Passport Press (Cósmica, translation) and more. Her work has been produced across the USA, UK, Italy, México, and participated internationally in the ASSITEJ festival in Denmark and Sweden. Off Broadway: Then They Forgot About The Rest (INTAR 2019), Sweep (Lincoln Center Director's Lab 2016) Off-Off Broadway: Desaparecidas: The Musical (JACK, 2022). Her original work has been produced and developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Musical Theatre Conference, NAMT, INTAR, New York Children's Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Lincoln Center, Bushwick Starr (NY), Two Rivers (NJ), Milagro (PDX), Aurora Theatre (GA), Duke City Repertory (NM), and more.
Her short story "And then I hit the glass" was part of the Talking While Female album available on Audible, and "Musings" on Girl Tales Podcast, is the recipient of the inaugural Gotham & Variety Audio Honors award for groundbreaking audio storytelling. She is the creator/sole writer on Sonoro's Sci-Femme upcoming series "Hidden Element." Her short film MONAH had a World Premiere at the Austin Film Festival 2022 and was an official selection at the Brooklyn Sci Fi Film Festival (2023), El Paso Plaza Film Festival (2023) and Classic Film Festival TX (2023).
She is the Book & Lyric Writer for "Little Duende" with music & lyrics by Robi Hager, (NAMT '21, National Music Theatre Conference 2021) and book writer for "Desaparecidas" (Off-Off Broadway: JACK SPACE) with music by Jaime Lozano, and lyrics by Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca. Broadway or other professional commissions include: (upcoming) Book Writer for "Finding Frida" with music by Jaime Lozano and lyrics by Neena Beber, Book Writer for "Ritchie" with music by Ritchie Valens and Los Lobos, and Book Writer for "Vinyl Cafe" with lyrics and music by Akiva Romer-Segal and Colleen Dauncey. 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? She serves on the Board of the El Paso Holocaust Museum, Marfa Live Arts, is on the Advisory Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons, and a committee member for the Climate Commons for Theatre and Performance. Escobar is represented by Bret Adams Agency (Theatre; New York) and 3 Arts Entertainment (TV/Film; Los Angeles).
As an arts educator she has taught at Kingsborough College (CUNY), University of Texas at El Paso, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College.
Her short story "And then I hit the glass" was part of the Talking While Female album available on Audible, and "Musings" on Girl Tales Podcast, is the recipient of the inaugural Gotham & Variety Audio Honors award for groundbreaking audio storytelling. She is the creator/sole writer on Sonoro's Sci-Femme upcoming series "Hidden Element." Her short film MONAH had a World Premiere at the Austin Film Festival 2022 and was an official selection at the Brooklyn Sci Fi Film Festival (2023), El Paso Plaza Film Festival (2023) and Classic Film Festival TX (2023).
She is the Book & Lyric Writer for "Little Duende" with music & lyrics by Robi Hager, (NAMT '21, National Music Theatre Conference 2021) and book writer for "Desaparecidas" (Off-Off Broadway: JACK SPACE) with music by Jaime Lozano, and lyrics by Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca. Broadway or other professional commissions include: (upcoming) Book Writer for "Finding Frida" with music by Jaime Lozano and lyrics by Neena Beber, Book Writer for "Ritchie" with music by Ritchie Valens and Los Lobos, and Book Writer for "Vinyl Cafe" with lyrics and music by Akiva Romer-Segal and Colleen Dauncey. 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? She serves on the Board of the El Paso Holocaust Museum, Marfa Live Arts, is on the Advisory Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons, and a committee member for the Climate Commons for Theatre and Performance. Escobar is represented by Bret Adams Agency (Theatre; New York) and 3 Arts Entertainment (TV/Film; Los Angeles).
As an arts educator she has taught at Kingsborough College (CUNY), University of Texas at El Paso, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College.
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