About

Photo by: Russell J. Young

Georgina H.L. Escobar incorporates strategies of performance, play, speculation, and humor for the creation of world-making narratives. Addressing present day concerns by positioning them in impossible "what if's?" Escobar builds retro-future, sci-femme, ultra humanism and frontera funk pieces aimed at reimagining our future(s). Escobar was born and raised among the deep mystical stories of the Mexican high-deserts and continues to tell stories and paint worlds that embrace the retelling of that mythos and can explore the idea of "The Sisterhood of the Americas." She continues to write, make, and tell stories as playwright, deviser, and director for and with various allies including Milagro (OR), Clubbed Thumb (EWG 2017), Lincoln Center (Director's Lab 2017), INTAR, The Sol Project, Bushwick Starr (Reading Series 2018), and New York Children's Theatre, among others. She is a MacDowell Colony and Djerassi Artist Residency Fellow, a writer at The Fornés Writing Workshop (2017-18) and participant at the Paula Vogel Bootcamp (NYC). Escobar is the recipient of the Theatre For Young Audiences Kennedy Center National Award for Ash Tree, which was presented at the notorious ASSITEJ festival in Denmark and Sweden. Notable productions include: Alebrijes (Milagro), B.I. (be) (Teatro Milagro Tour), Sweep (Aurora Theatre), Penny Pinball Presents the Beacons (INTAR Workshop Production), Death and the Tramp (Milagro), and Ash Tree (Duke City Repertory Theatre).

A hopeful existentialist, her work ranges from "playful and soothing" to "from another plane." Her unique Frontera Aesthetic is an endless well, built stone by stone by the Humans Escobar, her academic ancestors who—as both historians and educators—reshaped the state of the Mexican North towards the positive, sustainable, and ecologically sound. A border-dweller in self and influence, in-between is all she's ever been.

Selected Writing Credits:

Sweep (World Premiere: Aurora Theatre, GA 2017; Lincoln Center Director's Lab, NY 2016); Coffee & Whiskey, IL 2018; Finalist National Latino Playwriting Award 2017, Carnaval Festival of New Latinx Works, IL 2015; The Brooklyn Generator 2014 Selection published in "Scenes for Latinx Actors.")
Ash Tree ( Kennedy Center National TYA Playwriting Award, 2010; ASSITEJ Denmark/Sweden, 2011; World Premiere: Duke City Repertory Theatre, 2012; Bonderman 2011; Fourth Wall Productions Pop-up On Site Series 2012.)
Death & The Tramp (Commission: Milagro Theatre, OR, 2016)
Penny Pinball Presents the Beacons (50 PP Selection: "Best Unproduced Plays 2018"; INTAR Unit 52 New Works Lab workshop, 2017.)
...Jones (The Movement Theatre Company reading 2017; Dixon Place Two-Night Series, 2016; The Flea Director's Fellow reading 2016; Coffee & Whiskey Script Pub, 2015.)

Others:

B.I. (be) (Teatro Milagro Tour, 2018-19)
All Strings Considered (New York Children's Theatre and Queens College tour 2019)
A Ribbon About a Bomb (Exquisite Corpse Company, NY Summer 2018)
Firerock (Little Globe Productions—The Lensic, 2012; The Magic Theatre workshop 2016.)
The Ruin (Manhattan Repertory Theatre Winterfest, 2011)
Bag of Bones (or The Circuz) (Teatro Nuevo Mexico reading 2010; KCACTF Region VI Selection 2009.)

Under Construction:

StoneHeart, A Deconstructed Western 'Giant' meets 'The Others'
Then They Forgot About the Rest, Apocalyptic 'Empire Records' meets 'Get Out
The Beacons Retro-Futura 'The Warriors' meets 'Tommy's The Who'

Directing Credits:

All Strings Considered (NY Children's Theatre 2018),
B.I. (be) (Teatro Milagro, 2018),
Bicycle Country (Aurora Theatre 2017),
El Payaso (Teatro Milagro 2017),
Death & The Tramp (Milagro Theatre 2016),
Musings (HorseHair Strike Team, Music Direction),
Ash Tree (Duke City Rep, 2012).

Translations:

Quixote on the Conquest of Self by Claudio Valdez Kuri and Monica Hoth,
Martina and the Bird Men by Monica Hoth,
Paloma by Anne-Garcia Romero,
Tuko Tuko and the Lizard Moon Princess by Anton Juan,
Becoming Cuba by Melinda Lopez,
Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez.