Gina Young
- Writer
- Composer
- Actress
Gina Young (she/they) is an award-winning writer, director, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. Works for the stage include Femmes: A Tragedy, BUTCH BALLET, sSISTERSs, and This is Why I Don't Come Home. Works for the screen include ROOM TONE, starring A League of Their Own's Roberta Colindrez and directed by Broadway's Whitney White.
Gina was born in Washington DC to a family of musicians and singers. She grew up starring in musicals like Bye Bye Birdie and Peter Pan, singing professionally and acting on local television. They 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, first as a solo singer/songwriter, later with performance art pop duo TEAM GINA-- whose music video "Butch/Femme" went viral in the early days of YouTube-- and then with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles' "It Gets Better" Tour.
Gina moved to Los Angeles in 2011 to work in the writer's room of Vh1's Emmy-winning 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, The Feminist Center for Creative Work, and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).
Gina is a winner of the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting, a winner of 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. She is also the founder and curator of SORORITY, a performance series centering the work of women, trans and queer performing artists, and is the creator of Feminist Acting Class, a radical experiment in actor training.
Gina was born in Washington DC to a family of musicians and singers. She grew up starring in musicals like Bye Bye Birdie and Peter Pan, singing professionally and acting on local television. They 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, first as a solo singer/songwriter, later with performance art pop duo TEAM GINA-- whose music video "Butch/Femme" went viral in the early days of YouTube-- and then with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles' "It Gets Better" Tour.
Gina moved to Los Angeles in 2011 to work in the writer's room of Vh1's Emmy-winning 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, The Feminist Center for Creative Work, and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).
Gina is a winner of the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting, a winner of 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. She is also the founder and curator of SORORITY, a performance series centering the work of women, trans and queer performing artists, and is the creator of Feminist Acting Class, a radical experiment in actor training.
