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Genevieve​   
​Simon

AEA   ACTOR
WRITER

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Genevieve as Coriolanus at Actors' Shakespeare Project (photos: Nile Scott Studios)
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Julianna McGuirl Photography
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Oberon in Midsummer, photo: Anabel Rios

UPCOMING:​

performing This Bug Is Gay in ANT Fest at Ars Nova​

performing in reading of Twins Day at Cleveland Play House ​

Lecturer, Intro to Playwriting, Skidmore College (Fall 2025)

Commission, The Motor Company Communal Spaces Festival (Fall 2025)


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CURRENTLY:
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2025 NYSCA Commission Winner:
​THIS BUG IS GAY

signed with UGA Talent

 RECENTLY...
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2024 Page 73 Writers Group

​workshop of Becoming Eve by Emil Weinstein, dir. Tyne Rafaeli

performed in readings/workshops at
 Second Stage Theater, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians,  Prelude Festival, Playwrights Realm INK'D Festival,
Hunter MFA Playwriting Fest, ​
​The Drama League
, Tectonic Theatre Project, 
​and New Georges


Guest lecturer, developing new play Hell is Real at Skidmore College
(Spring 2025)

Reading of new play Punch Back at 
​Oberlin College (May 2025)

Bloom Bloom Pow produced at Willamette University (April 2025)


Reading of Guarding at Virginia Commonwealth University (Spring 2025)

Guarding produced at The Drama Studio (March 2025)

performed in You Must Wear A Hat at Theatrelab Oct 10-12

devising BIRTHDAY by SOUR MILK 
(Christina Tang, Carsen Joenk, 
Anna Jastrzembski)

filmed feature Sinner Supper Club
​dir. Nora Kaye and Daisy Rosato

2023-24 New Georges Audrey Resident

workshopped This Bug Is Gay at 
​The Brick & Bushwick Starr Reading Series
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played Oberon & Puck in the immersive 
​Double Feature Shakespeare 
directed by Katherine Wilkinson and Mikhaela Mahoney

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played Rosalind in As You Like It at 
​Actors' Shakespeare Project, in collaboration with The Theatre Offensive

read The Boston Globe review

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GENEVIEVE SIMON (they/he) 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 Clubbed Thumb, Second Stage Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, The Playwrights Realm, New Georges, The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, The Tank, AF Creative Media, The Drama League, Prelude Festival, Tectonic Theatre Project, The Civilians, Bedlam, The New School, Hunter College, and Columbia University. 
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As a playwright, Genevieve centers queer people in magical worlds at the intersection of family, identity, and bodies of water. He is a 2025 NYSCA Commission Winner, a 2023-24 New Georges Audrey Resident, a member of the 2024 Page 73 Writers Group, and was a Semi-Finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship in 2023 and 2024. His climate-doom-comedy BLOOM BLOOM POW​ was a Finalist for the 2022 EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival. Genevieve’s work has also been supported by The Bushwick Starr, Ars Nova, The Brick, Fresh Ground Pepper, ​Shadowland Stages, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Parsnip Ship, The Tank, Arts on Site, NYSCA, ​The Puffin Foundation, ​Holton-Arms School, and The Cincinnati Fringe Festival. He is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and their writing has been published in Howlround Theatre Commons. 

Genevieve has been a lecturer, guest artist, and facilitated workshops for K-12 and college students at
Skidmore College, Oberlin College, ​Two River Theater, Emory University, Notre Dame University, SUNY Buffalo State, SUNY New Paltz, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, Actors' Shakespeare Project, and University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 

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