Christine Young is a theatre director, dramaturg, and educator
who specializes in new play development. From 2000-2006 she served
as Literary Manager and then Associate Artistic Director for the
Playwrights Foundation, for which she produced the annual Bay Area
Playwrights Festival. Current projects in development include One
Instance of Burning with Chris Rodgers (for which she received a
Theatre Bay Area individual artist grant) and Cry Don't
Cry with multi-disciplinary ensemble Balé Techlorico (developed
through Shotgun Theatre's Lab Program). Recent productions
include the American premiere of Edward Bond's A-A-America
for Crowded Fire, the world premiere of Executive Order 9066 with
Lunatique Fantastique, and the world premiere of Two Birds & A
Stone by Amy Wheeler for the Capitol Hill Arts Center in Seattle.
In the Bay Area, Christine has worked with the Magic Theatre,
California Shakespeare Theatre, TheatreWorks, San Francisco
Shakespeare Festival, New Conservatory Theatre Center, and EXIT
Theatre. In August 2008, Christine will join the Performing Arts
& Social Justice Department at the University of San Francisco
as a full-time professor. Christine holds an MFA in directing from
the University of Iowa and a BA in Religion from Princeton
University.
