Gina Young

Gina Young (she/they) is an award-winning writer, director, songwriter and performer whose work blurs genres and forms. Her plays, musicals, videos, and curated events have been presented everywhere from The Hammer Museum and REDCAT to punk clubs and gay bars across the US and Europe. Her best-known works include Femmes: A Tragedy, BUTCH BALLET, Tales of a Fourth Grade Lesbo, This is Why I Don't Come Home, phone/sex/cancer and she cuts herself / she likes to write. Gina was born in Washington DC to a family of musicians and singers, and grew up starring in musicals like Bye Bye Birdie and Peter Pan, singing professionally and acting on local television shows. She went on to study drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and began writing and directing plays at the legendary WOW Cafe Theatre in the East Village. They also began playing guitar at open mics on the Lower East Side, recording and touring as a singer/songwriter. Gina toured nationally and internationally as a solo singer/songwriter and later with performance art pop duo TEAM GINA, whose music video "Butch/Femme" went viral in the early days of YouTube. Gina moved to Los Angeles to work in the writer's room for the 2011 reboot of Vh1's iconic Emmy-winning series, Pop Up Video. Since then, she has been developing scripts for film and television, and continuing her work in theatre. Their plays, musicals and devised theatre projects have been presented by REDCAT, The Hammer Museum, USC's Visions & Voices Series, Los Angeles Performance Practice, The Los Angeles LGBT Center and the Feminist Center for Creative Work. She is a winner of the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting, the HUMANITAS/PLAY LA Prize, a two-time Finalist for Center Theatre Group's Sherwood Award, and a member of The Kilroys, The Ring of Keys and The Dramatists Guild. Gina is the founder and curator of SORORITY, a performance series centering the work of women, trans and queer performing artists, and is also the creator of Feminist Acting Class.