Tina Esper
focuses on the silenced—those whose rightful place in society is scrutinized and challenged.
Her plays often reimagine the lives of older women as acts of resistance. Women shaped by years of caretaking, compromise and deferred ambition.
Women socialized to shrink.
She follows them to the moment where they refuse invisibility.
Her work inhabits the charged space between erasure and revolt, insisting that reinvention is not the privilege of youth, but the hard-fought right of experience.
Tina's play, Neighbor Jane was the co-recipient of the 2023 National Partners of the American Theatre’s Julie Jensen Playwriting Award. Neighbor Jane was also selected for the 2022 Great Plains Theatre Conference and was developed at the Sewanee Writers Conference 2021. She's currently working on The Universe of Jane in Three Books: Neighbor Jane, State of Maine and Soft Star.
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What has she been up to?
Tina was a finalist for the prestigious WP Lab 2026
Tight was named the second place recipient for the 2026 Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting
Tight was the 2025 inaugural play at the Studio@620's NuWorks Series
Neighbor Jane received a staged reading at the Provincetown Theater in 2025
Tina graduated from Boston University's Playwriting MFA 2025 with eight full-length plays--get ready for her plays to hit the new play circuit
Boston Playwrights Theatre produced Soft Star November 2024
All inquiries to misstinaesper@gmail.com
