Christine Evans (
Playwright) Australian-American Christine Evans’ plays and libretti have been produced or developed at venues including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Playbox Theater, Arts Above, and Questor’s Theatre (UK); the Sydney Opera House, Green Room Music, Opera Queensland, Belvoir Street, and the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts (Australia), Playwrights’ Theater of New Jersey, Centennial Stage, Cutting Ball Theater, Providence Black Rep, HERE Arts, the Women's Project, Crowded Fire, StreetSigns, Spooky Action Theater, Theater J, Rattlestick Theater, Perishable Theater, the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, the Davis Center for Performing Arts (Georgetown), and elsewhere. Christine’s play
Trojan Barbie premiered at the American Repertory Theater (ART), received the Jane Chambers Award and the “Plays for the 21
st Century Award, is published by Samuel French and has had over thirty productions in the US and internationally. Christine is a 2020-21
Howard Foundation Fellow, a multiple MacDowell Colony Fellow and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities recipient. A Playwrights Center Core Alumna and Australian Fulbright alumna, she holds an MFA (Playwriting) and PhD (Theater & Performance Studies) from Brown and taught playwriting at Harvard from 2007-12. She serves as Associate Professor in Performing Arts at Georgetown University. Her first novel,
Cloudless, was published in 2015.
www.christineevanswriter.com