Gina Young Collection

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BIOGRAPHY

Gina Young (she/they) was born in Washington D.C. She came from a family of musicians and starred in school musicals like Bye Bye Birdie, sang professionally, and acted on local television shows. As a young adult, she studied acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. During this time she wrote and directed plays at the WOW Cafe Theatre and played her guitar at open mic nights. She began touring nationally and internationally as a solo singer and songwriter. In the mid-2000s, her performance art pop duo TEAM GINA went viral on YouTube with the original music video “Butch/Femme.” 

In the early 2010s, Gina moved to Los Angeles to work for Vh1’s Emmy-winning series, Pop Up Video. She has developed several scripts for film and television, all while continuing her theater work. Her performing arts projects have been featured by REDCAT, The Hammer Museum, USC’s Visions and Voices Series, Los Angeles Performance Practice, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and the Women’s Center for Creative Work. In 2018, she was a finalist for the Center Theatre Group’s Richard E. Sherwood Award. In 2019, she published a comedic play, Femmes: A Tragedy, which earned the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting. She has also won the HUMANITAS/PLAY LA Prize. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Kilroys.

Her recent work includes founding and curating the performing arts group SORORITY. This salon focuses on centering the work and voices of women, trans, and queer Los Angeles performing artists. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they are building up their YouTube archive and producing online events. She is also the creator of Feminist Acting Class.