Pronounsthey/them

Department/College/UnitGraduate Studies Division

TitleMA Candidate & Teaching Assistant

AffiliationGraduate

Web Sitewebsite

Primary Office LocationTheater Arts J Offices
C 204

Mail StopTheater Arts Center

Biography, Education and Training

linda maria girón (they/them, lin) is a queer, Guatemalan-american playwright, actor and theater maker. Their work explores globalised neocolonialism, intergeneration healing and queer radical futures. lin's MA focuses on developing queer, somatic-centered multimodal theater making as a tool to address and combat systemic "technostress" as well as other forms of tech facilitated abuses.

On stage, lin has most recently performed in Limp Wrist on the Lever (Zo) at Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco, Do You Feel Anger? (Eva) at Marin Theater, Steel Magnolias (Shelby) at Cinnabar Theater, Please Don't Slow Me Down (Mania) at Potero Stage SF, Best Available (Carolina), Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties (Betty 3) and Dream Hou$e (Julia) all at Shotgun Players in Berkeley. 

An award-winning bi-lingual playwright, their plays include: AMÉMONOS (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). They hold 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).

By day, linda is a freelance graphic designer and teaching artist for ZSpace Youth Arts and Golden Thread Productions.

BA: Theater and Performance Studies - University of California, Berkeley.