LOJO SIMON is a polycreative, playwright, dramaturg, Laguna Beach Literary Laureate Emerita, Laguna Beach Artist of the Year, and founder of Bare Bones new play reading series. She wrote the book and lyrics for Creede Repertory Theatre’s Young Audience Outreach Tours BEST FOOT FORWARD (2019), SEEDS OF CHANGE (2018), and ALBERT PORTER, BOY EXPLORER (2017). Her family-friendly works NICE & SLOW (Old Miner Playwriting Award), HERO ZERO, PLUM LUCK, GORILLA BALLERINA, PRESS, Go! FIGHT! WIN!, and HEARTLAND (w/Anita Simons, Dayton Playhouse FutureFest winner, KCACTF Finalist) all are published by YouthPLAYS. Other plays include the L'DOR V'DOR trilogy (Jewish Plays Project Semi-Finalist) RELIC, OR I WAS BUBBIE’S FAVORITE BY JOEL FEINMAN (Queens Theatre), ADORATION OF DORA (David Mark Cohen...
LOJO SIMON is a polycreative, playwright, dramaturg, Laguna Beach Literary Laureate Emerita, Laguna Beach Artist of the Year, and founder of Bare Bones new play reading series. She wrote the book and lyrics for Creede Repertory Theatre’s Young Audience Outreach Tours BEST FOOT FORWARD (2019), SEEDS OF CHANGE (2018), and ALBERT PORTER, BOY EXPLORER (2017). Her family-friendly works NICE & SLOW (Old Miner Playwriting Award), HERO ZERO, PLUM LUCK, GORILLA BALLERINA, PRESS, Go! FIGHT! WIN!, and HEARTLAND (w/Anita Simons, Dayton Playhouse FutureFest winner, KCACTF Finalist) all are published by YouthPLAYS. Other plays include the L'DOR V'DOR trilogy (Jewish Plays Project Semi-Finalist) RELIC, OR I WAS BUBBIE’S FAVORITE BY JOEL FEINMAN (Queens Theatre), ADORATION OF DORA (David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award), ONE FOOT (Idiom Theatre, Minneapolis Fringe, Salt Lake Fringe), MI CORAZON (Anna Zornio Award finalist, anthologized in Palabras del Cielo, Vol. II, forthcoming), J’OY VEY (w/Anita Simons, Queens Theatre), and MOSCOW (Sam French OOB Festival, City Theatre National New Play Award, KCACTF Ten Minute Play Award, Best of Tribal Humor Festival, Heideman Award finalist). Lojo is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and the New Play Exchange. www.lojosimon.com