Genevieve as Coriolanus at Actors' Shakespeare Project (photos: Nile Scott Studios)
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GENEVIEVE SIMON (they/them) is an Equity actor and writer based in New York. They performed the title roles in Hamlet and Coriolanus at Nebraska Shakespeare Festival and Actors' Shakespeare Project in Boston, respectively, and have helped playwrights develop new work at Ensemble Studio Theatre, BEDLAM, New Georges, The New School, Columbia University, and The Tank. Regional theatre credits include: The Thanksgiving Play (Urbanite Theatre), As You Like It (Actors' Shakespeare Project), Adaptive Radiation (Denizen Theatre), Macbeth (Bay Street Theater), This Is A Mortality Play Set In An Office Depot (Urbanite Theatre), Henry IV Part I (International Shakespeare Center Santa Fe with Tabling: The Podcast), and All’s Well That Ends Well (Nebraska Shakespeare). Genevieve recently starred in the short films Crow God, produced by Tyler Miguel Mercer, written by Claire Downs, directed by Katia Koziara; and Bushwick Jodi from The Goondocks.
As a playwright, Genevieve centers women and nonbinary people in magical worlds at the intersection of family, queer identity, and water. They are a 2023-24 New Georges Audrey Resident*, a 2023 Semi-Finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, and their climate-doom-comedy BLOOM BLOOM POW was a Finalist for the 2022 EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival. Genevieve’s work has been supported by Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, The Puffin Foundation, Shadowland Stages, The Parsnip Ship, The Tank, Arts on Site, NYSCA, Holton-Arms School, and The Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Genevieve is proud to be a New Georges Affiliated Artist. *Stay tuned for THIS BUG IS GAY, a solo queer cabaret performed entirely in German, using Kafka’s The Metamorphosis to explore how language both liberates and limits queer people. |
