Playwright (3GT Investigates: Birth Rights 2018)

Linda Maria Girón. Guatemalan-American actor and playwright from Los Angeles, CA, Linda currently resides in the Bay Area where she obtained a BA in Theater and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. During her time at Cal, Linda was awarded both the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for Acting and Playwriting and Michael Mansfield and Randy Sweringen Social Justice Award for her play Memoria del Silencio en el País de la Eterna Primavera. Her second play, white iris, premiered at Pianofight’s Shortlived VI and is currently being developed into a full-length. Post-graduation, Linda has worked with a number of Bay Area theaters including NCTC, SFBATCO, Brava Theater Center, Utopia Theatre, FaultLine Theater and Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts where she is currently a playwright in residence.