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 19-20 Roundabout Directing Fellowship, a Drama League Directing Fellowship, and has worked as an Associate 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 overseeing the national tour of Charles Fuller’s A SOLDIER’S PLAY directed by Kenny Leon. 

Today, Cristina is the Associate Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company, the Resident Director of SIX: THE MUSICAL, and the Founding Artistic Director of Checkmark Productions, an NYC based company dedicated to artists of color and the telling of their stories in theater and film. 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, directed by Cristina. Currently, Checkmark is programming an upcoming reading series of new work written and directed by women of color, while developing a pilot, TONI, written by Cristina and inspired by the life of Marie Antoinette.

Up next, Cristina will be directing Thorton Wilder’s OUR TOWN at University of Rochester, and overseeing productions of SIX: THE MUSICAL across North America.

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