Karina Billini Selected for The Public Theater Emerging Writers Cohort

The Public Theater has announced that KARINA BILLINI, an alum of The New Harmony Project, will join the cohort of 10 playwrights selected for its 2023-2025 Emerging Writers Group. The upcoming cohort marks the ninth cycle of the group, which is dedicated to uplifting playwrights at the earliest stages of their career. 

Karina is a Dominican-American playwright, poet, and educator from Brooklyn. Billini completed her undergraduate degree in playwriting at Marymount Manhattan College and received her MFA in Playwriting from The New School for Drama. She is a proud alum of the New Harmony Project Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood, and Pipeline PlayLab, among others. Her plays have been workshopped and/or produced at Alliance Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Harmony Project, Fault Line Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, among others. Her play, APPLE BOTTOM, is a recipient of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission. Billini is a first-year Lila Acheson Wallace American playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School. She is forever grateful for her mother (her favorite poet), Rafaela, and her five siblings for their limitless hope and humor. 

Karina Bellini

KARINA BILLINI