James Christy

Playwright

Program:
National Showcase of New Plays

Full length plays: FOREVER QUESTION, Winner, B Street Comedy Festival, Produced B Street Theatre, summer 2019. A GREAT WAR: Production, Iron Age Theatre, September 2015, Barrymore Nomination, Best New Play; AT LIBERTY HALL: workshop production Premiere Stages, Fall 2014, 2nd place, Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Youth Play Competition; LOVE AND COMMUNICATION: Playpenn Playwrights Conference, July 2010, production by Passage Theatre in October 2010, winner, the Brown Martin Barrymore Award in 2011; EGYPTIAN SONG: finalist Eugene O’Neill conference 2016; NEVER TELL: Broken Watch Theatre Company, August 2006, published by Playscripts Inc., April 2007. PUT THEM AWAY: finalist, New Jersey Playwrights contest from William Paterson University, 2013.

Honors/Awards: Dramatists Guild Fellow 2016/2017; Winner, Actors Theater of Louisville's Heideman Award for best short play 2001; Winner, Brown-Martin Barrymore Award, 2011.

“Mr. Christy has a real gift for contemporary, insightful, darkly funny dialogue that reflects believable human interaction.” – Anita Gates, NY Times August, 2006 re: NEVER TELL
"A powerful new play... to pull out the rug from an audience and make it gasp even once is an achievement; to do it twice is close to miraculous."—Peter Filichia, NJ Star Ledger, October 2010, re: LOVE AND COMMUNICATION