Christina Anderson (playwright)

Christina Anderson is an American playwright and educator.

Quotes

• I feel black women, specifically, have a history of being erased in terms of their literary contributions in America’s literature. In a lot of ways that’s true for women of color in general, so I think the most important part is to keep these women’s voices alive and active and circulating…
  • On the invisibility of minority women in the world of literature in “Catching Creativity: An Interview with Playwright Christina Anderson” in the Booklist Reader (2019 Jan 14)

• That title, I think, really captures the need to travel through life in an artistic sense, in a personal sense, a creative sense. I embrace that title . . . like the different types of ways that people can catch things…
  • On choosing the title Catch for her play in “Catching Creativity: An Interview with Playwright Christina Anderson” in the Booklist Reader (2019 Jan 14)

• Every time I start a play it sort of comes from a theme or a question or something that kind of pisses me off, and then I build from there and think about how a piece can live on stage...
  • On her creative process in “An Interview with Christina Anderson” in The Interval (2014 Sep 17)

• A lot of my language is always slightly heightened—I’ll throw in alliterations, rhymes, play with onomatopoeia, people speaking over each other. I think it’s fun to be able to do that in theatre. Language is one of our biggest resources, so why not have fun with it?...
  • On how she experiments with language in “An Interview with Christina Anderson” in The Interval (2014 Sep 17)