Gina Stevensen
Gina Stevensen (they/she) is a playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, and performer. She received a 2023 Vermont Arts Council/NEA Creation Grant to develop Breakfalls, which was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and will premiere at Vermont Stage in 2024. Gina was the 2021 winner of the Kernodle New Play Award, the 2020 winner of the New Works Initiative at Good Luck Macbeth, a 2019 winner of the Columbia@Roundabout New Play Reading Series, and a 2022 artist-in-residence at Ragdale. Their plays have been developed in NYC, London, and across the country with Roundabout Theatre Company, American Stage, Urban Stages, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, Barter Theatre, and more. They have been a finalist for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Award, the Jewish Playwriting Contest, the Dramatist Guild Foundation’s Fellows Program, and the Austin Film Festival Pitch Competition, and a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award (twice), the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (three times), the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (three times), The Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the Ashland New Plays Festival, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Premiere Stages Play Festival, and more. As a dramaturg she has supported both classics and new works with LaMama E.T.C, Vermont Shakespeare Festival, and Middlebury Acting Company, among others. They have been a guest lecturer at Hunter College, NYU, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Vermont. MFA Playwriting: Columbia University. BFA Acting: NYU Tisch. www.ginastevensen.com
