BIOGRAPHY
Christine Evans
Playwright, Trojan Barbie. Internationally produced playwright originally from Australia and based in the U.S. Venues presenting her work include the New Vic (London), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, hotINK International Play Festival, the Magic Theatre, Bricolage Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre, the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Perishable Theatre, Boston Theatre Marathon, New Jersey Rep, Crowded Fire, Ohio Theatre in New York, and Cutting Ball Theatre. Trojan Barbie won the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (2007) and the Playwrights First Award (2009). It also garnered for its author the 2009 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Playwriting/Screenwriting Fellowship. Further honors include the Fulbright Award in Visual and Performing Arts, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, the Monash National Playwriting Award (Australia), a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Weston Award for Dramatic Writing, and Perishable Theatre’s Women’s Playwriting Award (2000 and 2001). Ms. Evans was a 2007 resident artist at Perishable Theatre and is a 2008–2010 Playwright’s Lab Member of the Women’s Project in New York. She holds an MFA (playwriting) and a PhD (theater and performance studies) from Brown University and teaches playwriting at Harvard.