Christina Anderson

Christina Anderson
Christina Anderson is a 2022 Tony Award Nominee for Outstanding Book of the Broadway musical Paradise Square. She is a playwright, TV writer, screenwriter, educator and creative. Her work has been produced by theaters such as the Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kansas City Rep, Geva Theatre, and Yale Rep. Awards and honors include: 2022 Horton Foote Prize, 2022 Arthur Miller Legacy Award, 2021 Prince Prize, 2020 United States Artists Fellow, MacDowell Fellowship, Lily Awards Harper Lee Prize, Herb Alpert Award nomination, Barrymore Nomination and New Dramatists Residency. She was a staff writer on Edie Falco's CBS TV drama Tommy. She taught playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama, Wesleyan University, Rutgers University and SUNY Purchase College, and served as the interim Head of Playwriting at Brown University. She has been an avid photographer for nearly ten years; the Magnum award review described Christina's work as “compelling” and “poignant.” Since 2019, she has produced hip-hop instrumentals under the moniker Purely Magenta. Check out her latest ep, 6.12, here.Perform Christina Anderson
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Blacktop Sky
Christina Anderson
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Blacktop Sky
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 5m
Set against the backdrop of a restless neighborhood and inspired by the Greek myth Leda and the Swan, Blacktop Sky examines the intersection of love, violence and seduction.
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the ripple, the wave that carried me home
Christina Anderson
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the ripple, the wave that carried me home
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 1m
This poignant, quietly subversive play from Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson is a moving exploration of a family’s response to injustice and a daughter’s reckoning with her political inheritance.
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Goddess Help Us
Christina Anderson
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Goddess Help Us
10 Minute Play, Drama / 3w
When a young musician meets her musical hero and discusses collaborating on a new project, intentions are skewed and artistry takes a backseat to a media image.
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Blacktop Sky
Christina Anderson
Full-Length Play, DramaBlacktop Sky
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 5m
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the ripple, the wave that carried me home
Christina Anderson
Full-Length Play, Dramathe ripple, the wave that carried me home
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 1m
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The Apollo Presents... A New Harlem Renaissance: Short Plays from...
Multiple Authors
Collection / AnthologyThe Apollo Presents... A New Harlem Renaissance: Short Plays from ...
Dennis A. Allen II ,Michael Bradford , Eric Micha Holmes , Christina Anderson , James Ijames , Zora Howard ,Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi ,Lauren Whitehead
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