GINA STEVENSEN 

(Performer)

Gina Stevensen is a playwright, performer, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn. Her original works have been produced at such NYC venues as Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Urban Stages (off-Broadway), The Point, Columbia Stages, NYU, and Arlene’s Grocery. Her play The Time Crawlers Save the World was the grand prize winner at Manhattan Repertory Theater’s 2012 One-Act Competition and received a space grant at Looking Glass Theater. She received her BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch, where she studied acting and creating original work at the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, The Experimental Theatre Wing, and the International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam. Gina is passionate about global forms of theatre, and has traveled three times to southern India to train in Mohiniyattam, a traditional Indian dance-drama form. She works as a teaching artist, most recently as the writing coordinator for the Writers in Performance workshop at Tribeca Performing Arts Center and as a theatre teacher for high school students at the Brooklyn College Community Partnership. Her work as a choreographer can be seen on PBS, in Santino DeAngelo’s new opera “Narcissus: An Ancient Roman Pantomime.” Gina is the artistic director of a circus and performing arts summer camp for kids in Park Slope. She is an MFA Playwriting candidate at Columbia University. www.ginastevensen.com