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GENEVIEVE SIMON (they/them) is an Equity actor and writer based in New York. They performed the title role in Hamlet at Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, 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), 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). They recently starred in the short film Crow God, produced by Tyler Miguel Mercer, written by Claire Downs, and directed by Katia Koziara.
As a playwright, Genevieve centers women and nonbinary people in magical worlds at the intersection of family, queer identity, and water. They are a Semi-Finalist for the 2023 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, and their climate-doom-comedy BLOOM BLOOM POW was recently named 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, The Parsnip Ship, The Tank, Arts on Site, NYSCA, Holton-Arms School, and Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Finalist, EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival (2022). Producer’s Pick of the Fringe (Cincinnati Fringe 2017). Recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant 2021. Genevieve is proud to be a New Georges Affiliated Artist. |