NATHAN CHRISTOPHER
Playwright
ABOUT NATHAN CHRISTOPHER
Nathan Christopher writes plays about the universal truths of everyday life. Through the exploration of familiar moments—falling in (and out of) love, the death of a loved one, an act of violence, the slow decline of age—his work offers new perspectives, questions the conventional, provides comfort, allows us to laugh and, most of all, ask us to look inward rather than outward because that’s how we start changing the world.
Christopher is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
PICKING UP
Full-length play
Winner in the “Stage Play Script” category of the 86th annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.
It’s the 90s – when everyone still relied on the landline telephone. That landline is a lifeline to four women who have been brought together and are anxiously awaiting a phone call. As the hours slip away, tensions run high, friendships are tested and secrets are exposed. PICKING UP is a story about relationships, family, and what happens when everything is on the line.
PICKING UP: A NEW MUSICAL
Semi-Finalist in the SDSU 2022 New Musical Initiative
A full-length musical version of the show, created with lauded singer-songwriter Gregory Douglass, made its off-off-Broadway workshop debut to a sold-out house as part of the Emerging Artists Theatre’s Fall 2019 New Work Series. It was also featured in Undiscovered Works at Dixon Place’s Monthly Storytelling Series (NYC) in April 2020, and was celebrated in a special broadcast on Musical Theatre Radio in October 2020 to mark the one-year anniversary of the show’s creation. Find out more about the musical version of PICKING UP here.
A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR
Ten-minute play
Published in the Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2021 anthology
It’s late on a Wednesday evening in a nondescript bar. There are no customers; the bartender has nothing to do except kill time. She’s not supposed to be here anymore anyway, in this nothing-to-see-here town midway between two better places.
Although the chicken sandwich is pretty damn good.
And then a man walks in.
THE FAREWELL TOUR
Full-length play
The greatest music legend in the world is dying. As a final gesture of gratitude to her fans, she embarks on THE FAREWELL TOUR. Although there’s no singing and no band, this global goodbye could well be her greatest performance.
Told by three people each connected to the diva in a different way, this is a story about lighting up the stage, falling off the charts and what happens when our heroes turn out to be human.
CLAIREVOYANT
Ten-minute play
Two people trying to see their way through to the end.
EVE: A Palindrome Play
Ten-minute play
This short play in two scenes about the fall of humankind is palindromic, meaning that the spoken lines are the exact same in both scenes but reversed. That is, Scene Two begins with the lines with which Scene One ended and ends with the lines with which Scene One began (and vice versa).
SORRY (NOT SORRY)
Ten-minute play
Inspired by horrific events making headlines across the country, SORRY (NOT SORRY) examines the dynamics of power and punishment.
INQUIRIES, RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
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