Gina Young
Hammer Museum, Courtyard
Gina Young is a Los Angeles-based theatre artist. Her work often incorporates music, movement, and queer feminist themes.
Gina has toured nationally and internationally with music and theater projects. Her work has shown at REDCAT, Highways, The Women's Center for Creative Work, WOW Cafe Theatre, HERE, BAX, Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse, BRIC Studio Theater, The FUSE Festival curated by Dixon Place, Baltimore Playwrights Festival and the Page to Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center.
Plays include Femmes: A Tragedy, which won the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting and was hailed as "slyly riotous" and "dazzlingly reconceived" by The Hollywood Reporter; sSISTERSs, which was developed through the Studio Series at REDCAT and was a Finalist for the Drama League's Beatrice Terry Residency; and Asuncion Playwrights Project Semi-Finalist Tales of a Fourth Grade Lesbo.
Gina studied drama at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the creator of Feminist Acting Class and a member of the Dramatists Guild. Her primary artistic interest is queering both content and form.
In Real Life: Studio provides a glimpse into the working processes of artists. Throughout the fall a select group of artists utilizes spaces in the museum to convene and rehearse new material, including theater, dance, music, and performance. While some artists and collectives will simply discuss or workshop material, others will produce a new project from rehearsal to final performance.
Event Dates: Tuesday, Sep. 27, 3 p.m.; Tuesday, Oct. 25, 4 p.m.; Thursday, Nov. 10, 1 p.m.; Friday, Dec. 2, 2 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum, Courtyard
Price: Free
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.