HEATHER CHRISTIAN.
an award winning composer/performer making music centered shows and rituals.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
HEATHER CHRISTIAN is 2025 MacArthur Fellow, Drama Desk and two-time Obie Award winning composer/performer making music centered shows and rituals. She is a 2021 Richard Rodgers Award winner, 2022 Stephen Schwartz Outstanding New Composer awardee and Sundance Institude Time Warner Fellow. Recent composing/performing credits include her own work Oratorio for Living Things (Signature Center NYC 2025, Ars Nova 2022), Terce: A Practical Breviary (HERE Arts Center and Prototype), Animal Wisdom ( The Bushwick Starr, now a motion picture) I am Sending You the Sacred Face (Theater In Quarantine/ YouTube— Vultures Top Theater Experience of 2020), Prime: A Practical Breviary (Playwrights Horizons Soundstage—IndieWire’s #1 Podcast Episode of 2020) in addition to being a lead artist on devised works Mission Drift (Nat’l Theater London, The World Is Round BAM). She has released 13 records, owns and operates her own recording studio in Beacon, NY, and can be seen regularly in concert halls and dive bars as Heather Christian & the Arbornauts.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Interview released on March 30.
"Theater is always about the investigation—at least the rooms that I try to curate. It’s about the process of finding what the piece is, and that remains a growing thing throughout the run. Keeping that kind of ritualism alive makes me believe in the theater.”
“Terce” aims to
OVERWHELM
the critical ear through the
STRANGNESS, RELENTLESSNESS, AND FULLNESS
of it's sound.
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
GALLERY.
Discover photos and videos from Heather's work.
CREDITS: ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS, by Heather Christian, Signature Theater, photo by Ben Abrons; headshot by Maria Baranova; TERCE: A Practical Breviary, by Heather Christian, HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, the Space at Irondale, photos by Maria Baranova; I AM SENDING YOU THE SACRED FACE, by Heather Christian, Presented by Theater In Quarantine and Theater Mitu’s Expansion Works, directed and performed by Joshua William Gelb; TERCE: A Practical Breviary, by Heather Christian, HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, the Space at Irondale, black and white photo by Nick Kourtides; ANIMAL WISDOM, by Heather Christian, Bushwick Starr, photos by Maria Baranova and Richard Termine.