In Conversation with Artistic Director Marti Lyons and Adapter Christopher Shinn

CHRISTOPHER SHINN (he/him, ADAPTER) is a playwright who lives in New York. Several of his plays have premiered at the Royal Court: Four, Other People, Where Do We Live (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting), Dying City (2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist), and Now or Later (shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award, Best Play). Other plays include The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre), Against (Almeida Theatre), Teddy Ferrara (Goodman Theatre and Donmar Warehouse), An Opening in Time (Hartford Stage), Picked(Vineyard Theatre), On the Mountain (South Coast Rep), What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons), and The Coming World (Soho Theatre).

His adaptation of Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway in 2009 and his adaptation of Judgment Day premiered at Park Avenue Armory in 2019 and was nominated for a 2020 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2005, a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard in 2019-2020, a Cullman Fellow at New York Public Library in 2020-2021, a MacDowell Fellow in 2023, and a Hawthornden Fellow in 2024. www.christophershinn.com