Biography
Karina Billini (she/her) is a Dominican-American playwright, poet, and educator from Brooklyn. She is a second-year playwright in Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and a member of the Public Theater’s 2023–25 Emerging Writers Group. She is a proud alum of the New Harmony Project Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, Pipeline PlayLab, and Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers’ Corner, among others. Her plays have been workshopped and/or produced at La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Harmony Project, Fault Line Theatre, and Teatro Vivo, among others. Her play APPLE BOTTOM is a recipient of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission. Billini holds an MFA in Playwriting from the New School and a BA from Marymount Manhattan College.