Christine's award-winning plays have been produced in the U.S., Australia, Canada, England, and Wales and published by Samuel French, Theatre Forum, in Smith & Kraus’ annual Best Men’s Stage Monologues and Scenes collections (2010), Best Women’s Stage Monologues and Scenes (1999; 2010; 2014), and in Out of Time & Place: An Anthology of Plays, Vol 1. In 2013 NoPassport Press published a trilogy of her plays, War Plays. Excerpts and synopses of all her plays are on the New Play Exchange.
Christine’s plays have been read or work-shopped at the Young Vic and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London; the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, the hotINK Festival of New Plays, Synchronicity Theatre, Playwrights’ Theatre of New Jersey, Trinity Rep, the Irish Rep (NYC), Cutting Ball’s “Risk Is This” Festival, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Centenary Stage’s Women Playwrights’ Series, Spooky Action Theater, the Kennedy Center, the Process Series at UNC Chapel Hill, the Z Space, the Playwrights’ Center and elsewhere.
Christine is an Australian Fulbright alumna, an Affiliated Writer with the Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, a 2011 O’Neill Finalist, a 2010-13 Resident Artist at HERE Arts (NY), and a WP Theater Playwrights’ Lab Alum. She holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Brown. She served as Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard University from 2007-12. In 2012 she moved to Washington, DC, where she is a Professor of Performing Arts at Georgetown University.
At MacDowell in 2002, Evans wrote the first draft of Slow-Falling Bird, a musical set in the Woomera detention center for refugees in the Australian desert. In 2009, she completed revisions for The Underpass, a performance script developed in collaboration with videogame design company Icarus for the 2010 Collaborations in Humanities & Technology Festival. During her 2017 residency, Evans completed a first draft of her novel, Nadia, set in London and Sarajevo in the 1990s. She also began work on The Snow Children, a play script inspired by the child refugees of Sweden.
