Gina Mariela Rodríguez-Drix
Writer and Performer based in Providence, Rhode Island
Gina Mariela Rodríguez-Drix is a writer and performer whose work centers families separated by sanction and sea. A 2025 recipient of the MacColl Johnson Fellowship for creative writing and member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, Gina’s debut novel-in-progress explores the Cuban Revolution, Mariel Boatlift, and exile in the United States.An arts-administrator with nearly two decades of experience, Gina now serves as Managing Editor at Callaloo Literary Journal. Daughter, mother, partner, and tía, Gina’s most important work is with family and in community. When she isn’t writing or performing, you might find Gina at a home or hospital birth, a practice she no longer shares with capitalism.
Publications / Staged Works
Personal Essay, "Birth as Battle Cry: A Doula's Journey from Home to Hospital." Published in Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth, edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D Bonaparte. Paradigm Publishers, 2015.
Poem, "These secrets were shared." Published in Ruffles, Repair & Ritual: An Anthology of Writing in Regards to the Renovation of the Wedding Cake House, edited by Mary-Kim Arnold and Taylor M. Polites, 2019.
Short Story, "Burial and Diaspora." Published in Out of Many: Multiplicity And Divisions In America Today, edited by Drs Camille and Raquel Goodison, Redux Consortium, 2018.
Short Play, America Too: Providence Housing Crisis. Playwright. Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence RI, 2018.
Short Play, Free At Last (?), A staged reading. Playwright, Director. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Culminating Black History Month, 2013.
Short Play, Ariel. Directed by Liz Morgan,‘10, Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University, 2008.
Full-Length Production, Ariel. Winner of the Potpourri Women of Color Playwrights Award. Directed by Elmo Terry-Morgan, The Drama Bookshop, NY, 2008.
Live & Digital Performance
Travel Ban. A performance exploration of banned ideas, embargoed borders, and redefined treasures. What, exactly, do we truly need? at Loba Lab’s Rewilding, May 1-2, 2025
Dreamscape Archives. A mixed-media virtual ritual examining the living legacy of Citrine Freedmen as understood by her collaborators and descendants from 2017-2157. Co-developed and co-curated with Dara Bayer. Funded in part by the RI State Council for the Arts, 2020.
Llévatelo. A bilingual solo performance ritual in celebration of three ancestors. Directed by Marcel Mascaro for the Fire Flowers and a Time Machine festival; Directed by Shey Rivera Rios for the Wilbury Theatre and the Waterfire Arts Center, 2020.
Video Poem, "A Cárdenas." Produced by Shey Rivera Rios for the Luna Loba Showcase, March 2020.
Prayer for the Port of Providence, A performance ritual highlighting Providence NO LNG in PVD campaign. Produced by Shey Rivera Rios for the Luna Loba showcase, November 2017.