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