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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 Bushwick Starr, The Brick, The Tank, The Drama League, Tectonic Theatre Project, The New School, and Columbia University. 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).
As a playwright, Genevieve centers queer people in magical worlds at the intersection of family, identity, and water. They are 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. 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, The Bushwick Starr, The Puffin Foundation, The Brick, Shadowland Stages, The Parsnip Ship, The Tank, Arts on Site, NYSCA, Holton-Arms School, and The Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Their writing has been published in Howlround Theatre Commons. They are proud to be a New Georges Affiliated Artist. Genevieve has facilitated acting, devising, and writing workshops for K-12 and college students at at 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. |