Cristina is an Afrolatina director, writer, and theater maker,

whose mission is to create community and conversation by directing new plays and musicals, as well as socially conscious adaptations of classics that place women of color at the forefront. Her work challenges the preconceived notions of what the American Theater can be, while confronting the intersections between our public, private, and political selves.

Cristina holds a BA in Theatre from Barnard College at Columbia University and has been awarded the Roundabout Directing Fellowship, a Drama League Directing Fellowship, and has worked as both an Associate and Resident Director on and off Broadway. Cristina was named one of the Broadway Women’s Fund’s “Women to Watch” of 2022, and her recent directing credits include Hilary Bettis’s QUEEN OF BASEL at Theaterworks Hartford, Sondheim and Lapine’s INTO THE WOODS at Pace University, and serving as Resident Director of SIX: THE MUSICAL. 

Today, Cristina is the Associate Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company, and the Founding Artistic Director of Checkmark Productions, an NYC based company dedicated to developing new work by artists of the global majority, while paying everyone involved the New York City Living Wage of $26/hour. Checkmark most notably produced Eliana Pipes’s play, DREAM HOU$E (2019 Leah Ryan Prize, 2019 O’Neill Finalist), at Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, and reopened after a four-year hiatus by producing a reading series of three new plays in the Summer of 2024.

Up next, Cristina will be directing Aaron Posner’s STUPID FUCKING BIRD at Montclair State University, and Sam Hunter’s POCATELLO at The Atlantic Acting School.

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