Christina Anderson

CHRISTINA ANDERSON (Playwright) was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. Her work has appeared at Ars Nova, Mark Taper Forum, The Coterie Theater, Rites and Reason, The Public Theater, Horizon Theater, and the Playwrights’ Center. Awards and honors include Susan Smith Blackburn nomination (2007), Lorraine Hansberry Award (American College Theater Festival 2004), Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship (New Dramatists 2005-06), Wasserstein Prize nomination (Dramatists Guild 2006), and Lucy Lortel Fellowship (Brown University 2007). American Theater magazine selected Christina as one of fifteen up-and-coming artists “whose work will be transforming America’s stages for decades to come.”

• “Topical and spooky. Christina Anderson is a talented newcomer who’s unafraid to take risks. Direction by Kate Whoriskey is excellent. Tony-winner LaChanze is gutsy.”

  — Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News

• “A Deeply Moving drama with a Sterling Cast. Christina Anderson is a gifted playwright you want to pay attention to. She has the voice of a poet, and the honesty of her voice and the integrity of her characters should stand her in good stead.”

  — Marilyn Stasio, Variety

• “FOUR STARS. First-rate writing and consistently solid acting. It’s clear from the opening scene that the play’s young author has a great deal of promise.”

  — Adam Feldman, Time Out NY