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Graduate Studies Division
Theater Arts
MA Candidate & Teaching Assistant
Theater Arts, MA
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Theater Arts J Offices
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Theater Arts Center
linda maria girón (they/them, lin) is a queer, Guatemalan-american playwright, actor and theater maker. Their MA work explores the globalization of neocolonialism, queer futures and musical memory.
An award-winning bi-lingual playwright, their plays include: "amémonos//let us love each other" (Blue Ink Award & BAPF semi-finalist, 2022), "Memoria Del Silencio En El País De La Eterna Primavera" (BAPF finalist, 2019), "LIMÃO Y SAL" (PlayGround SF Innovator Incubator, 2023) and "white iris" (TBA Creates 2019). lin has held new play commissions from Crowded Fire Theater, Alternative Theater Ensemble, City Street Artists, Town Hall Theater and the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Awards include the Michael Mansfield & Randy Sweringen Social Justice Award and the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for Acting & Playwriting (UC Berkeley TDPS, 2017), and recognition as a Finalist Playwright for the Playwrights' Foundation Resident Playwrights' Program (2022).
An actor by night, notable Bay Area roles include: Zo in Preston Choi's "Limp Wrist on the Lever" (Crowded Fire Theater), Eva in Mara Nelson-Greenburg's "Do You Feel Anger?" (Marin Theater), Carolina in Jon Spector's "Best Available", Betty 3 in Jen Silverman's "Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties" and Julia in Eliana Pipes' "Dream Hou$e" (Shotgun Players).
By day, lin is a freelance graphic designer and teaching artist for Word for Word + Z Space Youth Arts and Golden Thread Productions.
BA: Theater and Performance Studies - University of California, Berkeley.
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