Gia Marotta’s plays have been seen at Ensemble Studio Theater, Dixon Place, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Florida Atlantic Theatre Lab, The Midtown International Theatre Festival, Fringe NYC, Six Figures, the Centre x Centre Festival (Kigali, Rwanda), 14/48 Austin, Frontera Fest (Hyde Park Theatre), and the Cohen New Works Festival, among others. Her play, 381 Bleecker, was on the 2016 Kilroys List and Steppenwolf’s “The Mix,” and was a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. She has devised original plays, musicals, films and dance/theater with youth in New York City, St. Louis, Senegal, and in Kigali, Rwanda, where she co-founded and directed an interdisciplinary arts program for the community-based HIV initiative, WE-ACTx. The program, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, is now run entirely by young adults who came through the program as students. Her work and research have been supported by the Jerome Foundation, among others. She holds a B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from UT-Austin.