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Christina Anderson

CHRISTINA ANDERSON

  
Nationality:    African American
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  

Christina Andersons plays include: GOOD GOODS, MAN in LOVE, INKED BABY, BLACKTOP SKY, HOLLOW ROOTS, and DRIP. Her work has appeared at Steppenwolf, Penumbra, Yale Rep, A.C.T., Public Theater, Crowded Fire, and other theaters all over the country. Awards and honors include: Playwright-in-Residence at Magic Theater (National New Play Network), two PONY nominations, 2011 Wourzell Prize Finalist (University of Vienna), National Playwrights Conference residency at the ONeill, Schwarzman Legacy Scholarship awarded by Paula Vogel, two Susan Smith Blackburn nominations, Lorraine Hansberry Award (American College Theater Festival), Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship (New Dramatists), Wasserstein Prize nomination (Dramatists Guild), Lucille Lortel Fellowship (Brown University). Shes a Core Writer at The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. American Theatre Magazine selected Anderson as one of fifteen up-and-coming artists whose work will be transforming Americas stages for decades to come. She obtained her B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Dramas Playwriting Program. Anderson was born and raised in Kansas City, KS.

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below is a list of Christina Anderson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ashes Under Gait City, The         Blacktop Sky         Confessions Written On Brown Paper Bags         Construction Of A black diva         Drip         Going Home         Good Goods         Indian Wants the Bronx, The         Inked Baby         Man In Love         Pen/Man/Ship         Revelations::the Outtakes         Sacagawea: Breath Of An American Spirit

Ashes Under Gait City, The

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A full-length play about ownership, identity, and the power of belief. Simone The Believer, a popular internet guru, launches a campaign to convince Black Americans to return to an Oregon city that was rebuilt without them after a devastating fire. She assembles a small group of converts, but real world conflict quickly confronts her real world quest. The locals threaten to chase her out, most of her digital followers are unwilling to uproot, and personal struggles shake her faith. Determined to create a flesh and bone community, Simone triggers a violent act with the hope that it will ignite a migration.

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Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

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Blacktop Sky

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Klass, a homeless, young Black man, sets up residence in the courtyard of a housing project where Ida Peters lives. Triggered by a fatal confrontation between a local street vendor and the police, Klass and Ida quickly develop a precarious bond against the backdrop of a restless neighborhood. Inspired by the Greek myth Leda and the Swan, Blacktop Sky examines the intersection of love, violence, and seduction.

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Confessions Written On Brown Paper Bags

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Construction Of A black diva

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Drip

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Brughjefferson is under house arrest while Mae, his grandmother, lies in the hospital after having a stroke. Mae's dreams intertwine with Brughjefferson's reality as each hunt for freedom and forgiveness.

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Going Home

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Good Goods

Good Goods
Patricia and Stacey return to the family home after years living in the city but they have changed and no longer seem to fit in

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Contained in: "Post-Black Plays" published by Methuen Drama 2012   978-1408182475

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Indian Wants the Bronx, The

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Inked Baby

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In Inked Baby, stuck for money and unable to conceive, Gloria enlists the aid of her sister to make the child that she and her husband can't. as they uneasily await the baby's arrival, a mysterious contamination spreads outside. But consumed by their own struggles, is anyone paying attention? In this imaginative, other-worldly new Drama, one family fights to find its place in a neglected neighborhood.
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Man In Love

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1936. A metropolis divided by segregation and struck by economic turmoil. Rent parties rage above, while men hungry for work and love roam the streets. In this concrete jungle, a series of black female bodies turn up and a pattern emerges. Reactions vary across the city  hot-tempered ex-con Walker remains oblivious; Darlynn is anxious, but then again, shes always anxious; and her neighbor Paul Pare Jr., a young, charming black man stays cool. Man in Love examines a world of quiet desperation in hard times, where a criminal and his victims can get lost in the crowd.

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Pen/Man/Ship

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1896: A father and son board a ship heading for Africa on a mysterious mission with an opinionated young woman. On the open sea, an unexpected detour resurrects family secrets and reveals true intentions, fundamentally changing the course of their journey and their lives forever.

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Revelations::the Outtakes

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When Cree Logan returns to her hometown to celebrate the success of her second album, she is confronted by her first love and a close friend who betrayed her. Cree's story is revealed/rewound/& spliced using multimedia, elements of hip-hop, and bare-bones theatrics.

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video projections; still images; And voice ove

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Sacagawea: Breath Of An American Spirit

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Renee reads about the Native-American female member of the Lewis & Clark expedition and wants to know more. Her curiosity conjures Sacagawea's world and the Historians who want to control the past.

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children's play Youth audience

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