Theater In 2003, George became a founding member of 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.), an
Obie-Award-winning collective, along with playwrights such as
Anne Washburn,
Sarah Ruhl, and
Young Jean Lee.
Precious Little, a drama about a linguist who learns that due to a genetic abnormality, the child she is carrying may never learn to speak, was produced in New York by
Clubbed Thumb as part of its Summerworks series in 2009. It has subsequently been produced by the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago,
City Theatre in Pittsburgh,
Shotgun Players in Berkeley, and many other theaters. The Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theatre in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, produced the play in 2017. George's dark comedy
The Zero Hour was presented by 13P at Walkerspace in New York in 2010, and was a finalist for the
Lambda Literary Award for Drama.
Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, "a screwball sex comedy about the perils of monogamy, certainty, and academic administration", was originally produced by New Jersey's
Two River Theater in 2011 and named the Best Play of 2011 by the
New Jersey Star-Ledger.
The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence was produced by
Playwrights Horizons in 2013, and subsequently won an
Outer Critics Circle Award. George was inspired to write the play after watching an episode of
Jeopardy! featuring the supercomputer
Watson. In naming it a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the committee praised it as "a cleverly constructed play that uses several historical moments—from the 1800s to the 2010s—to meditate on the technological advancements that bring people together and tear them apart." George won the 2016 Whiting Award for Drama. The selection committee called her "a playwright at home in the messiness of us. She writes rigorously about love and its great sacrifices, and we are pulled to her scenes and words because she will not compromise how complicated we truly are. Conceptually rich and perfectly paced, every particle of language—from a character's speech to a stage direction—contributes to the vivid construction of a world." George's play
Hurricane Diane, which "combines suburban New Jersey housewives, gardening, climate change, and Greek tragedy", premiered at the
Two River Theater in 2017. In 2016, George began a three-year term as the Playwright in Residence at
Two River, through the National Playwright Residency Program, funded by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by
HowlRound.
Hurricane Diane opened off-Broadway at the
New York Theatre Workshop in 2019, in a production directed by
Leigh Silverman.
Books George is the author of two young-adult novels,
Looks (2008) and
The Difference Between You and Me (2012), both published by
Viking Press.
Publishers Weekly called
The Difference Between You and Me "a frank and funny account of opposites attracting [that] provides remarkable insight into teenage romance." It was a Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2012, a selection of the Junior Library Guild, and an ALA Rainbow List selection.
Television George works as a writer and executive story editor on the Hulu comedy series
Only Murders in the Building.
Bard Prison Initiative George is a Fellow for Curriculum and Program Development at the
Bard Prison Initiative at
Bard College. == Personal life ==