About Me

Georgie Svrcek is a playwright, author, and perfomer from the Chicago area.

Her queer historical drama Demonized was selected for a workshop production at Skidmore College in 2024, and she also wrote and performed her one-woman show La Pittura at Skidmore in 2025. Other playwriting works of hers including an adaptation of the myth of Midas, a cosmic horror one-act, and several 10-minute plays.

Her fiction writing has won several prizes, such as the Candace Carlucci Backus Prize in 2022 for her comedic poem "A Passage from the Personal Diary of Eroticles of Lesbos" and the Denise Marcil Prize for Fiction in 2024 for her short story “Lone Star.” “Lone Star” also received an honorable mention in the 2025 Great American Fiction Contest from The Saturday Evening Post and was published in the year’s anthology. Her story “The Curious Case of Joseph Nessen” was chosen as the winner of the Indignor House Writing Competition and published in their 2024 anthology.

She has been practicing and performing improv comedy since the age of 11 and has taken classes at iO, UCB, Improv Boston, and The Second City. Her college team, The Ad-Libs, has performed at the National College Comedy Festival for the past 37 years and also performed at Harvard University’s Laugh Riot Festival from 2023 to 2025. She has performed with several class teams on the iO stage, taking part in their summer intensive program two summers in a row, and also at The Second City for the Chicago Comedy Hour.

Some of her acting credits include Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time (Actor 4), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Joy), Up Your Ass (Ginger/Teacher), The Cagebirds (Guzzle) and Swimming in the Shallows (Donna) at Skidmore College; Rose and the Rime (Delly) at The Cherubs at Northwestern University; The Drowsy Chaperone (Mrs. Tottendale) at Concord Carlisle High School; The Addams Family (Grandma Addams) at Middlesex School Summer Arts.