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, serving as Resident Director of SIX: THE MUSICAL North America, and directing George Brant’s MARIE AND ROSETTA at Indiana Repertory Theatre.

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. Prior to 2020, 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.

After a four-year hiatus during the pandemic, Checkmark reopened in 2024 by producing an annual, Summer Reading Series where all artists were paid $26/hour. Since then, Checkmark has hired 70 artists and welcomed 400 audience members through its annual, Summer Series, and our goal is to continue expanding.

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