BioCristina Pippa is an award-winning playwright, filmmaker, and recipient of an Artist Initiative grant for her prose. Her play Cell Cycle is published and included in More Scenes from the Best New Plays. Cristina also contributed an essay to the book, Staging Social Justice.
Amelia, a short film Cristina co-wrote and directed, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival Kids International Film Festival and won the Golden Gateway Award at the Mumbai Film Festival. Adaptations for stage include Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo and The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires with composer Michael Gruber. Working with longtime collaborator Sharon Kenny, she adapted NYT Best Seller What Do You Do with an Idea? and Maybe by Kobi Yamada, produced at Stages Theatre Company and Interlochen Center for the Arts. They've also adapted Dragons Love Tacos for Stages Theatre Company's 40th Anniversary Season. For 92NY, they adapted The Tempest into a musical, as well as a modern retelling of the classic Ice Queen. Called “original, quick-witted, and… daringly strange” by NYTheatre.com and “heart tugging and humorous” by KDHX, Cristina's work has been produced and developed by The Hangar Theatre Lab Company, Avalon Theatre Company, Russell Sage College, Six Figures Theatre Company, Hubris Productions, Gallery Players, The Looking Glass Theatre in New York, This Woman's Work Theatre Company, Axial Theatre Company, Lakes Performing Arts Center, Darwin Turner Action Theater, and by members of Bedlam Faction and the Rude Mechanicals in Austin, TX. Cristina completed her BA at Columbia University and her MFA at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship. She is the Director of the MFA in Dramatic Writing and Screenwriting Programs at Missouri State University. |