Christine Evans
Originally from Australia, Christine Evans writes plays, fiction, essays and opera libretti. Her novel, Nadia, “often brutal, sometimes lovely and always humane” (Foreword Reviews, starred review) was published in 2023 (University of Iowa Press.) Her chamber opera with Sydney-based composer, Andrée Greenwell, Three Marys, was produced by Greenwell’s Green Room Music and premiered as part of the Sydney Opera House’s UnWrapped series, 2023, a program “dedicated to uncovering the best independent creators […] UnWrapped introduces audiences to groundbreaking and unique local artists.” Christine’s theater work has been developed and produced at the American Repertory Theater, the Royal Shakespeare Company, HERE Arts (NYC), Playbox Theatre and many other venues in the US, UK and Australia. Her play Trojan Barbie won the Jane Chambers Award and the “Plays for the 21st Century” award and is published by Concord Theatricals. Recent awards include the 2020 Howard Foundation Award for Playwriting, multiple MacDowell Fellowships and five DC Council on the Arts & Humanities Fellowships. She holds a PhD and MFA from Brown University, served as Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard (2007-12) and now lives in Washington, DC, where she is a faculty member of the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University.