Georgina Escobar

Escobar's works include themes of fantasy, surrealism, feminism, family relationships, and modern twists on traditional mythology, among others.[4][9] She notes that her female family members served as inspiration for many of the strong female characters in her plays, especially because of the fantastical discussions she often engaged in with the women of her family.[4] She cites ancient philosophers as well as writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Caroll, Kurt Vonnegut, Christopher Moore, and Neil Gaiman as inspirational figures.[3]

StoneHeart is a deconstructed western that explores the parallel deterioration of a family and a society in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua in the 1980s. Forbidden love, mental illness and suicide come together in a visceral horror family drama where the Zermanis are forced to cope with the death of their legacy amidst the rise of a new generation of 'society's finest.' Listen in the 2019 Kilroy's List

Two sisters coping with a recent traumatic event sign up to receive information regarding a special trial for the soon-to-hit-market drug: Alleviate. Meanwhile, at an ad agency called The Rest, the advertisers are about to accept this new 'forgetting pill' brief. Paths intertwine between memory, the truth, and The Rest as a pending apocalypse threatens to end the human race. An apocalyptic frontera (border) funk piece with elements of noir, 'Then they forgot about The Rest' is a southwest femmetasia about the things worth forgetting, the physical impact of memory, and the company that we keep." http://www.playbill.com/article/watch-how-the-sound-of-a-fridge-became-the-soundtrack-to-georgina-escobars-new-play-then-they-forgot-about-the-rest

Ash Tree follows the story of three sisters in the aftermath of the loss of their mother.[11] Escobar experienced the loss of her own mother before the idea for the play came to her in a dream.[3] The plot has its basis in themes relating to fantasy and mythology.[12] The play had its initial readings in Indiana in 2010, the ASSITEJ Festival of Denmark and Sweden in 2010, and the Kahootz Theatre in 2009.[11] In 2011, it was workshopped by Fourth Wall Productions, a company that Escobar founded in 2003.[11][9] Ash Tree premiered in New Mexico's Duke City Repertory Theatre in 2012 and was produced by Capital High School Theatre in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2016.[11]

The Ruin explores themes of magic, witchcraft, mystery and ancient legends.[11] Like Ash Tree, Escobar claims she was inspired to write the story after the idea came to her in a dream.[13] It was put on in 2011 by the Manhattan Repertory Theatre and in the Words Afire Theatre Festival in New Mexico.

The Unbearable Likeness of Jo, Semity, & Jones is a "A ridiculous investigation into memory, personal identity, and digiphrenia. Moments before her plane is about to crash, Jones deconstructs memory as a state of passage; from love, to Facebook, to her sexuality; all as related to one thing: present shock."[14] The play was read at Coffee and Whiskey Productions in Chicago, IL, in 2014, at The Flea Theater in New York City in 2015, and at The Movement Theatre Company in New York City in 2016. The play had a workshop production at Dixon Place in 2015.

Sweep is described as a feminist play. The story follows two siblings who have the ability to travel through time. Much of the story has to do with biblical figures such as Adam and Eve, which Escobar attributes in part to her upbringing. She attended Catholic school and explored spirituality alongside her family members.[2] Sweep is a femme spec-evo story that follows two sisters and hit women of the splintered worlds whose initial snafu with Adam and Eve catches up with them lifetimes later. Fighting for the final chance to reset humanity's imperfect patterns, the women of Sweep hunt their targets from biblical times to modern-day in order to accelerate humanity's evolution.[15]

Sweep had readings at the Brooklyn Generator in New York City in 2014 and at the Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval of New Latina/o Work in Chicago in 2015. It was also workshopped at the Lincoln Center Theater's Director's Lab in 2016.[14] The play was a finalist for the National Latino Playwriting Award. It was produced in 2017 at the Aurora Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.[11] The casting of the two main characters for the play is flexible, with no preference given to any particular ethnicity or gender identity for the actors. The Aurora Theater production of the play cast two black women for the roles of the main characters, and Escobar expressed support for this casting decision.[2]

The Circuz is a political satire and melodrama. Set in Ciudad Juarez at the height of genocide and murder, the narrative was "macabre farce that explores the discomfort of violence through exaggeration, faith through senses, and the cynicism of a land divided in two".[15]

• Penny Pinball Presents: The Beacons
• Species:Human
• Monsters We Create (in collaboration with UTEP Playwrights)
• Screwgar
• Quixote: On the Conquest of Self (translation)
• All Strings Considered
• Albrijes
• El Muerto Vagabundo
• Sweep
• The Unbearable Likeness of Jones
• The Wayfoot Series
• Firerock The Musical
• Ash Tree
• The Ruin[9]