Her plays explore themes of fantasy, mythology, feminism and the breakdown of the family including sci-femme narratives, musicals, and frontera-futurity stories.
She is a MacDowell Fellow, Djerassi Artist, Fornés & Clubbed Thumb Writing Group writer, & a La Mama Umbria Playwright.
[2] However, a teacher at the school inadvertently inspired Escobar's eventual career shift to playwriting by encouraging her to try writing rather than acting.
[2] She has been involved with the Latinx Theatre Commons throughout her career in multiple ways, from having a staged reading of her play Sweep at a festival in 2015 alongside the works of other Latinx playwrights,[7] to serving as the managing editor for an online publication for the LTC titled Café Onda,[8] to acting as the steering committee member for the LTC from 2013 to the present.
[10] Escobar's works include themes of fantasy, surrealism, feminism, family relationships, and modern twists on traditional mythology, among others.
[4] She cites ancient philosophers as well as writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Caroll, Kurt Vonnegut, Christopher Moore, and Neil Gaiman as inspirational figures.
The Unbearable Likeness of Jo, Semity, & Jones is a "A ridiculous investigation into memory, personal identity, and digiphrenia.
Moments before her plane is about to crash, Jones deconstructs memory as a state of passage; from love, to Facebook, to her sexuality; all as related to one thing: present shock.
[2] Sweep is a femme spec-evo story that follows two sisters and hit women of the splintered worlds whose initial snafu with Adam and Eve catches up with them lifetimes later.
[15] Sweep had readings at the Brooklyn Generator in New York City in 2014 and at the Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval of New Latina/o Work in Chicago in 2015.
Set in Ciudad Juarez at the height of genocide and murder, the narrative was "macabre farce that explores the discomfort of violence through exaggeration, faith through senses, and the cynicism of a land divided in two".