Christina Anderson

Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, Christina Anderson is a playwright, screenwriter, and educator. Anderson’s plays include: the ripple, the wave that carried me home, How to Catch Creation, Man in Love, Good Goods, The Ashes Under Gait City, Hollow Roots, Blacktop Sky, and pen/man/ship. Her work has been produced across the country including theaters such as Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Acting Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, and Yale Repertory Theatre. A Tony nominee for Outstanding Book of a Broadway musical, Anderson has received the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the Horton Foote Prize, the Arthur Miller Legacy Award, United States Artists Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship, Lily Awards Harper Lee Prize, Herb Alpert nomination, Barrymore Nomination for Outstanding New Play, New Dramatist residency, and many other honors. She is the author of Three Plays by Christina Anderson, a collection of her work published by Tripwire Harlot Press. Education: A.B. Brown University and M.F.A. Yale School of Drama. She’s taught playwriting at Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase, Wesleyan University, Brown, and YSD. Since 2019, she’s also been exploring music production under the moniker Purely Magenta, creating hip-hop instrumentals that experiment with groove and form. Current writing project: a book that explores playwriting as an accessible artistic life practice.