Christine Evans is an award-winning Australian-American playwright, novelist and opera librettist. Her new novel, Nadia , "often brutal, sometimes lovely and always humane…poetic and unflinching" (Foreword starred review) is published by U Iowa Press (2023). Three Marys, a chamber opera for which she wrote the libretto (composer Andrée Greenwell) premiered in May, 2023, at the Sydney Opera House.
Evans' plays have been produced in her native Australia, the US, Canada, England, Wales and New Zealand. Trojan Barbie won the Jane Chambers Award, the “Plays for the 21st Century" award and is published by Samuel French (UK and US). Venues producing or developing her work include the Royal Shakespeare Company, RADA, Arts Above and Playbox Theater (UK); American Repertory Theater, Crowded Fire, the Magic Theater, PlayPenn, the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival, the Playwrights' Center Perishable Theater, Signature Theater, Spooky Action Theater (US) and Belvoir and the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts (Australia).
Selected honors include the 2020 Howard Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting, the Rella Lossy Playwrights Award (Slow Falling Bird); multiple MacDowell Colony and a Corporation of Yaddo residencies; a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship; Rockefeller Bellagio Center Fellowship, two Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowships and three DC Fellowships in Arts & Humanities. Her novel-in-verse, Cloudless , was released by UWA Publishing (2015).
Christine holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University, served as Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard from 2007-12, and is a Professor in Georgetown University’s Department of Performing Arts. She is a Playwrights’ Center Core Alumna, an Australian Fulbright Alumna, and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Author's Guild.