Genevieve Simon

Genevieve Simon

Genevieve Simon (they/them) centers women and nonbinary people in magical worlds at the intersection of family, identity, and water. Their recent plays include Bloom Bloom Pow, Sister/Friend, Real Birds, Guarding, and Romeo + Juliet + Anybodys. Genevieve’s work has been produced and developed in New York at The Tank, Corkscrew Theatre Festival, The People’s Improv Theatre, Pete’s Candy Store, and The HIVE....
Genevieve Simon (they/them) centers women and nonbinary people in magical worlds at the intersection of family, identity, and water. Their recent plays include Bloom Bloom Pow, Sister/Friend, Real Birds, Guarding, and Romeo + Juliet + Anybodys. Genevieve’s work has been produced and developed in New York at The Tank, Corkscrew Theatre Festival, The People’s Improv Theatre, Pete’s Candy Store, and The HIVE. Regionally, their plays have been seen at Arts on Site, the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, PortFringe Festival, and with Actors Theatre of Louisville's Apprentice Company.
Awards: Critic’s Pick and Producer’s Pick of the Fringe (Cincinnati Fringe 2017).
FINALIST, 2022 EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival (Bloom Bloom Pow).
Finalist, Art House INKubator and EST/Youngblood playwriting groups.
New Georges Affiliated Artist.
www.genevieve-simon.com

Plays

  • Bloom Bloom Pow by Genevieve Simon
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    7–16
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: climate change, queer relationships + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: climate change, queer relationships, midwest, water pollution, lgbtqia, mother and child relationships, rural, workplace comedy, horses, millennials and economic anxiety
    Bloom Bloom Pow is a climate-doom-comedy. This rural queer adventure is an underwater romance. It’s a workplace nightmare. It’s a devastating reminder that we can’t fix our parents. But good news -- the algae’s growing bigger every day! Oh wait, that’s bad news for us. Inspired by the Creature from the Black Lagoon, toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes, and phone calls with your mom, this highly theatrical...
    Bloom Bloom Pow is a climate-doom-comedy. This rural queer adventure is an underwater romance. It’s a workplace nightmare. It’s a devastating reminder that we can’t fix our parents. But good news -- the algae’s growing bigger every day! Oh wait, that’s bad news for us. Inspired by the Creature from the Black Lagoon, toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes, and phone calls with your mom, this highly theatrical play celebrates resilience and joy in the face of climate devastation.
  • SISTER/FRIEND by Genevieve Simon
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: girls, friendship + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: girls, friendship, divorce, Cults, 1999, end of the world, sisterhood, sex education, spice girls, flawed father figures
    While their parents party upstairs Like It’s 1999, five young girls count down to Y2K and wonder what The End Of The World will look like from their basement. Childhood games unravel the truths their parents won’t tell them, and each must decide what they owe to the people they call family.

    An homage to the girls who raised us when our parents weren't watching.
  • Guarding by Genevieve Simon
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: swimming pool, teenagers + 6 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: swimming pool, teenagers, workplace, comedy, nostalgia, purgatory, ensemble cast, coming of age
    What if your teenage summer job were actually purgatory? Or maybe it's just, like, heat stroke...

    It’s the hottest day of the summer and nine teenage lifeguards in small-town Ohio are stuck at work. Their swimming pool is getting shut down at the end of the season, and everyone’s freaked out about what comes next. As the lifeguards rotate, relationships get tested. Nostalgia butts up...
    What if your teenage summer job were actually purgatory? Or maybe it's just, like, heat stroke...

    It’s the hottest day of the summer and nine teenage lifeguards in small-town Ohio are stuck at work. Their swimming pool is getting shut down at the end of the season, and everyone’s freaked out about what comes next. As the lifeguards rotate, relationships get tested. Nostalgia butts up against bodily fluids. Everyone tries to figure out Who Stole The Money...and also, the clock is acting, like, really weird. Does anybody else see that?

    With irreverent charm and great heart, Guarding honors the thankless task of keeping swimmers alive, and the people you come of age with—whether you want to or not.
  • Real Birds by Genevieve Simon
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 2 more
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    Keyword: conspiracy theories, surveillance + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, melodrama, parody/spoof
    Keyword: conspiracy theories, surveillance, comedy, simulation, computer games, rotten cake, best friends, birds, spies
    Sonya meets Alex, her new neighbor, and romance erupts. They have nothing in
    common: Sonya is neat, Alex is lazy. Sonya loves the outdoors, Alex would rather play
    computer games. It shouldn't work. So what is keeping these two together?

    Above their heads, Tee's been hearing voices. Voices telling her she isn't real. And
    neither is her best friend Jay. Because,...
    Sonya meets Alex, her new neighbor, and romance erupts. They have nothing in
    common: Sonya is neat, Alex is lazy. Sonya loves the outdoors, Alex would rather play
    computer games. It shouldn't work. So what is keeping these two together?

    Above their heads, Tee's been hearing voices. Voices telling her she isn't real. And
    neither is her best friend Jay. Because, the voices tell her, birds aren't “birds” - they're
    spy drones working for the government in the 1980s. If only Tee knew what a "1980" was.

    A comedic take on surveillance, conspiracies, and social simulation games like The Sims.
    What is real? Where do the voices in our heads come from? Who can we trust?