Karina Billini

Karina Billini (she/her) is a Dominican-American playwright, poet, and educator from Brooklyn. She is a first-year playwright in the Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. She is a current member of the Public Theater's 2023-2025 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 Speaker's 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. MFA from The New School for Drama, BA from Marymount Manhattan College.