Gina Young

Gina Young is an award-winning writer, director, songwriter and performer. She was born in Washington DC to a family of musicians and singers and grew up starring in school musicals like Bye Bye Birdie and Peter Pan, singing professionally and acting on local television shows. She went on to study acting 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. She also began playing her 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 Emmy-winning series, Pop Up Video. Since then, she has been developing several scripts for film and television, and continuing her work in theatre. Her 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 Women's Center for Creative Work. She is a winner of the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting for her comedy Femmes: A Tragedy, which will be published in Spring 2019, and in 2018 she was a Finalist for the Center Theatre Group's Richard E. Sherwood Award. She is a winner of the HUMANITAS/PLAY LA Prize and a new member of the Kilroys. Gina is the founder and curator of SORORITY, a performance series centering the work of women, trans and queer performing artists in Los Angeles, and is also the creator of Feminist Acting Class.