"Like many actors of color, I began writing because I wasn’t seeing stories about people who looked like me on stage or screen. I never imagined that I would fall so completely in love with it, but all these years later, I cannot fathom my creative life without writing being in it. Being a generative artist as well as an interpretive artist presents the best of all creative worlds to me."

 

For theatre, Christine’s first play, THE NEW DEAL, was the inaugural play to be developed in Charles Randolph-Wright’s "Different Voices" program at the Roundabout Theatre Company in NYC and subsequently developed through Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Going to the River Playwriting Unit (featured in Applause Books' "She Persisted: Best Monologues by Women Over 40"). Other plays and musicals include A LITTLE MORE BLUE (a solo play with music, winner of the 2022 inaugural Alvin Epstein Memorial Solo Performance prize), BROKEN GROUND (book & lyrics with composer/lyricist Jason Ma, a commission from Village Theatre), EMPRESS MEI LI LOTUS BLOSSOM (Women's Theatre Festival Fringe 2020 "Outstanding Short Form Play", Greater Boston Stage Company, Abingdon Theatre Festival Winner), ADVENTURES OF A FAUX DESIGNER HANDBAG (Women's Theatre Festival #OccupyTheStage2020, Leviathan Lab, part of the “Playwriting” curriculum at Wesleyan University),THE SECRET WISDOM OF TREES (featured in Applause Books’ LATER CHAPTERS Anthology, developed in residence at The Barrow Group Theatre Company), TILL SOON, ANNE (book and lyrics with composer Bobby Cronin, developed in residencies at the O’Neill Theater Center), BARCELONA (libretto and lyrics with composer/lyricist Jason Ma, developed at residencies at the Weston Playhouse, CAP 21 and as part of Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals), GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT (starring GRIMM’s Reggie Lee and Bree Turner, featured in Applause Books' "She Persisted: Best Monologues by Women Over 40"), TRUTH AGAINST THE WORLD: THE TRIALS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (developed in a residency at the O’Neill Theater Center, world premiere at the Kennedy/McIlwee Studio Theatre in Raleigh, NC), DIARY OF A DOMESTIC GODDESS (with Kevin Duda), MY BOYFRIEND IS AN ALIEN (AND I’M OKAY WITH THAT) (book & lyrics, with composer Bobby Cronin, commissioned and produced by Prospect Theater Company and Theatre Elision), AMERICA'S BFF (book & lyrics with composer Bobby Cronin), PAPER SON (Diverse City Theatre Company, Queens Theatre in the Park, part of the “Multi-cultural Drama” curriculum at the University of Michigan/Flint and the “Playwriting” curriculum at Wesleyan University), INTERNAL BLEEDING (Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, ReImagined World Entertainment’s 2011 workshop starring Daryl “Chill” Mitchell,