10 Imix
Red Planetary Dragon
Shimmering
New Moon
Golden Cuticle
Suspended under
The Evening Star
A Shadow ‘round
Your crescent Horn
Belies your Maiden State
Transfiguration signified –
Re-birth reborn through the Eastern Gate.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Christina Anderson
Christina Anderson is an American playwright and educator. She is best known for her plays Good Goods and Inked Baby. Her work has received several honors and awards, including two Playwrights of New York (PONYs) Nominations as well as the Lorraine Hansberry Award. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Playwriting at SUNY Purchase and is the interim Head of Playwriting at Brown University.
Life and career
Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, Anderson obtained her Bachelor's Degree from Brown University and a Master of Fine Arts in the Yale School of Drama’s Playwriting Program. While at Yale, she was lectured by Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Paula Vogel.
Anderson has been a Playwright in Residence at various institutions including the New Dramatist and Epic Theatre Ensemble. Additionally, Anderson is an active member of the DNAWORKS Ensemble. At The Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, she serves as a Core Writer.
The American Theatre Magazine named Anderson as one of fifteen up-and-coming artists “whose work will be transforming America’s stages for decades to come”.
For the 2015–2016 season, Hartford Stage named Anderson the Aetna New Voices Fellow. Fellows of the past include Matthew Lopez (2012–13), Daniel Beaty (2007-08) and Quiara Alegría (2008–09). Quiara Alegría later won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play she had premiered at Hartford Stage.
Anderson debuted Off-Broadway in 2009 with her play Inked Baby.
Her play Good Goods premiered at the Yale Repertory. Directed by Tina Landau. The cast included Tony Nominee De’Adre Aziza, Angela Lewis, Oberson K.A. Adjepong, Marc Damon Johnson, Clifton Duncan.
Good Goods was categorized as a Post Black Play in the Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays.
Works
Plays
How to Catch Creation
pen/man/ship
The Ashes Under Gait City
Man in Love
Blacktop Sky
Sweet Brown Ginger
Hollow Roots
Inked Baby
Good Goods
Drip
Anderson's plays have been produced at theaters including the: Yale Repertory Theatre, the Penumbra Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, and The Public Theatre.
Awards and honors
Awards and Nominations
Lorraine Hansberry Award from the American College Theater Festival
Wourzell Prize Finalist from the University of Vienna (2011)
Two Playwrights of New York Nominations
Three Susan Smith Blackburn Nominations
Wasserstein Prize Nomination from the Dramatists Guild
Fellowships and Residencies
Van Lier Playwright Fellowship at New Dramatists
The Lucille Lortel Fellowship at Brown University
National Playwrights’ Conference Residency
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Residency
Anderson is a Resident Playwright at the organization New Dramatists and the social justice theatre company Epic Theatre Ensemble.
Critical reception
Good Goods was praised by critics for its intriguing and ambiguous style. Critics appreciated the various characters and the relationships between them in the play. However, several critics saw the play as disjointed and believed there was too much going on at once. The New York Times review wrote that Anderson is “saying something profound with “Good Goods,” but it seems either too subtle or too ambitious in its complexity”.
Inked Baby received positive critical reviews for its “natural dialogue and honesty of family relationships.” She was praised by Variety for having “the voice of a poet, [which] she is generous in lending it to characters who can’t easily articulate the thoughts and feelings that create conflict and pain in their lives”. However, some critics, such as Time Out, felt that “much of the most important material [in the play] seems vague and underdeveloped”.*
IMIX
Kin 101: Red Planetary Dragon
I perfect in order to nurture
Producing being
I seal the input of birth
With the planetary tone of manifestation
I am guided by the power of universal water.
The reality of the mind of God is the underlying fact of Cosmic Science, which offers a view of the process of cosmic evolution which is spiritual in nature.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Svadhistana Chakra (Kali Plasma)
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