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Georgia Petersen is a writer, editor, dramaturg, and sometimes performer from Berkeley, CA, based in New York, NY.  She is interested in experimental forms, transness, the American west, and how to write movement.

Her writing has been featured in The Drift, The Brooklyn Rail, COPY, The Drama Review/TDR, and Theater magazine, where she was managing editor. 

Her dramaturgical work includes Ida Cuttler’s farce, SORT (dir. Alexis Woodard), Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses (dir. Destyne Miller), and several productions at Yale Rep, including Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone (dir. Liz Diamond) and Yura Kurdonsky’s adaptation of Gogol’s The Inspector (dir. Kurdonsky). 

She holds an M.F.A. in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from the drama school at Yale.