tina esper

Tina Esper's play, Neighbor Jane has been selected for the 2022 Great Plains Theatre Conference. Neighbor Jane was developed at The Workshop Theater's Spring Intensive 2021 and at the Sewanee Writers Conference 2021. Her play Fireflies was a 2021 Woodward/Newman Drama Award Finalist as well as a 2020 O’Neill Semifinalist, a 2022 Athena Project Semifinalist, a 2021 Garry Marshall New Works Festival Semifinalist and a 2021 Cimientos Semifinalist. Fireflies was also a Finalist for the Loom at Woven Theatre. She was a 2020 Garry Marshall New Works Festival Semifinalist and a 2019 O’Neill Semifinalist for her play, Jersey Intersections. Tina was a visiting artist at the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2018. Tina (she/her) is a member of Pick Up Sticks Playwriting Collective founded and led by Gary Garrison. 

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: https://newplayexchange.org/users/21406/tina-esper
Facebook: Tina Esper

MORE ABOUT ME
I am most myself when I am alone thinking, writing or meditating.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON
A modern-day adaptation of Medea centered around two Brazilian sisters in Newark, New Jersey. 

KEYWORDS
​Surreal-pastoral, magical realism, female-centered plays