Genevieve Simon

Genevieve Simon

GENEVIEVE SIMON’s plays include Guarding, Bloom Bloom Pow, Sister/Friend, Delivery, Modern Girl, and Romeo + Juliet + Anybodys.
Upcoming: World Premiere Production of Bloom Bloom Pow at Corkscrew Theatre Festival.

Genevieve’s work has been produced and read in New York at The Tank, The People’s Improv Theatre, The HIVE, and Pete’s Candy Store. Regionally, her work has been seen at the...
GENEVIEVE SIMON’s plays include Guarding, Bloom Bloom Pow, Sister/Friend, Delivery, Modern Girl, and Romeo + Juliet + Anybodys.
Upcoming: World Premiere Production of Bloom Bloom Pow at Corkscrew Theatre Festival.

Genevieve’s work has been produced and read in New York at The Tank, The People’s Improv Theatre, The HIVE, and Pete’s Candy Store. Regionally, her work has been seen at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, PortFringe Festival, and The Sherry Theatre in Los Angeles. Her play Guarding was developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville with the Apprentice Company.
Awards include: Critic’s Pick and Producer’s Pick of the Fringe (Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2017, Romeo + Juliet + Anybodys).
New Georges Affiliated Artist.
B.A. in Theatre from The Ohio State University.
www.genevieve-simon.com

Plays

  • Bloom Bloom Pow by Genevieve Simon
    Recommendations: 3
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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, mother and child relationships, big city/rural divisions, comedic sex scenes, office culture, horses, millennials
    Who will inherit the Earth when Humans have self-destructed? Algae, that's who. As our human protagonist Mag struggles to maintain the facade of being "fine," the cyanobacteria (Algae) grows bigger and stronger each day. Straddling the line between humor and suspense, BLOOM BLOOM POW explores what it means to be alive in the face of impending climate doom.
  • Guarding by Genevieve Simon
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: comedy, immersive
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    Keyword: swimming pool, workplace
    Genre: comedy, immersive
    Keyword: swimming pool, workplace
    It’s the hottest day of the summer and nine teenage lifeguards are stuck at work. Their pool is getting shut down at the end of the season, and everyone’s a little freaked out about what comes next. Relationships get tested. Nostalgia butts up against bodily fluids. And everyone tries to figure out who was behind The Bad Thing That Happened.

    Guarding honors the thankless task of keeping swimmers...
    It’s the hottest day of the summer and nine teenage lifeguards are stuck at work. Their pool is getting shut down at the end of the season, and everyone’s a little freaked out about what comes next. Relationships get tested. Nostalgia butts up against bodily fluids. And everyone tries to figure out who was behind The Bad Thing That Happened.

    Guarding honors the thankless task of keeping swimmers alive, and the people you come of age with—whether you want to or not.
  • SISTER/FRIEND by Genevieve Simon
    Recommendations: 2
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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.
  • Delivery by Genevieve Simon
    Cast: 
    3–5
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 3 more
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    Keyword: Childhood, ersatz mother daughter relationships + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, movement/physical, musical, period
    Keyword: Childhood, ersatz mother daughter relationships, memory, magical realism, History, communication
    Three women in three very different landscapes grapple with the importance of delivering a message.

    1. A meeting of three historical figures
    2. An apartment complex in Southern California, and
    3. Inside the digital landscape of customer service emails (set to music)

    The play moves laterally, generating momentum as symbols move through the three worlds – a letter, a...
    Three women in three very different landscapes grapple with the importance of delivering a message.

    1. A meeting of three historical figures
    2. An apartment complex in Southern California, and
    3. Inside the digital landscape of customer service emails (set to music)

    The play moves laterally, generating momentum as symbols move through the three worlds – a letter, a plastic yard animal, and a yellow Frisbee taking on a mounting significance. Where do things go when they are lost? And when do they come back?