Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Christina Anderson

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Christina Anderson’s plays include How to Catch Creation, pen/man/ship, Man in Love, and Blacktop Sky. Her work has appeared at The Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, and other theaters in the United States and Canada. Awards and honors: Inaugural Harper Lee Award for Playwriting, two PONY nominations, three Susan Smith Blackburn nominations, and Woursell Prize Finalist. She's a resident playwright at New Dramatists, Epic Theatre Ensemble, and a DNAWORKS Ensemble member.

At MacDowell, she completed the first draft of her play about black Republicans. She also completed the pilot episode of a TV series she's currently developing. In 2017, Christina received the Harper Lee Award.