Christina Pumariega

Christina Pumariega

Christina Pumariega acts and writes. Often simultaneously.

She is the author of ¡VOS! (Crossing Borders Festival at Two River Theater, current O’Neill NPC finalist, Blue Ink Award semifinalist), JOAN DARK (DCPA Colorado New Play Summit, Jane Chambers Prize runner-up, O’Neill NPC finalist), LEI CHIEDE/SHE ASKS (O’Neill NPC finalist) and HER MATH PLAY (EST/Sloan Foundation in collaboration with...
Christina Pumariega acts and writes. Often simultaneously.

She is the author of ¡VOS! (Crossing Borders Festival at Two River Theater, current O’Neill NPC finalist, Blue Ink Award semifinalist), JOAN DARK (DCPA Colorado New Play Summit, Jane Chambers Prize runner-up, O’Neill NPC finalist), LEI CHIEDE/SHE ASKS (O’Neill NPC finalist) and HER MATH PLAY (EST/Sloan Foundation in collaboration with Hartford Stage Company, BAPF finalist). Her plays have been developed at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, the New Harmony Project, the Lark, New Georges, Hartford Stage Company and Ammunition Theatre Company. She is currently under commission by Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Two River Theater, and will attend Hedgebrook in 2024 as a writer in residence.

TV writing credits include “Turner & Hooch” (Disney+) and “Bluff City Law” (NBC).

Acting on and Off-Broadway and in television and film, Pumariega has cross examined Coach Taylor, made out with the Fly and set a Cuban pharmacy ablaze in a corset.

Born and raised all over the south, her father is Cuban, her mother is Italian-American. MFA Acting, NYU.



Plays

  • Labor by Christina Pumariega
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: fair labor practices, health + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, movement/physical, political
    Keyword: fair labor practices, health, nurses, no set
    Commission (current), Denver Center for the Performing Arts

    Nurses Jo, Ngozi and Amor work their asses off caring for moms and babies in the maternity ward graveyard shift. But over thirty years in a system that undervalues that care, a lot can change. A funny, wild postpartum fever dream told by women laboring in America.
  • ¡VOS! by Christina Pumariega
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: the Dirty War of 1970s Argentina, latina + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: the Dirty War of 1970s Argentina, latina, fertility treatments, fertility, two-hander, dark comedy, female spy, college protests
    Selection (upcoming), 2024 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence
    Finalist (current), 2024 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
    Semifinalist, 2024 Blue Ink Award, American Blues Theater
    Selection, 2023 Cruzando Fronteras Festival at Two River Theater
    Selection, 2023 New Harmony Project Residency
    Reading, 2023 Denver Center for the Performing Arts...
    Selection (upcoming), 2024 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence
    Finalist (current), 2024 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
    Semifinalist, 2024 Blue Ink Award, American Blues Theater
    Selection, 2023 Cruzando Fronteras Festival at Two River Theater
    Selection, 2023 New Harmony Project Residency
    Reading, 2023 Denver Center for the Performing Arts

    After a long battle with infertility, Argentinian-American Annie makes a pilgrimage to her estranged birthplace of Buenos Aires to undergo IVF by the famed Dr. Cossi. But Annie’s medical tourism unearths the secrets of activist Ana and art student Sofia, lost to the Dirty War. VOS! is an epic hunt for belonging, motherhood, and the Disappeared, inspired by Las Madres—past, present and hopeful—and told by two Latina actors spinning as fast as they can.
  • Joan Dark by Christina Pumariega
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Catholic Church, female priest + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, faith-based, fantasy
    Keyword: Catholic Church, female priest, Joan of Arc, St. Joan of Arc, Latinx, Filipinx, Haitian, Opoid, Addiction Recovery, abortion
    Selection, 2023 New Harmony Project Residency
    Selection, 2023 Colorado New Play Summit at Denver Center for the Performing Arts
    Runner Up, 2022 Jane Chambers Award, WTP/ATHE
    Finalist, 2023 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

    Deacon Joan strives to become a womanpriest in the Roman Catholic church, but her new posting in Bridgeport,...
    Selection, 2023 New Harmony Project Residency
    Selection, 2023 Colorado New Play Summit at Denver Center for the Performing Arts
    Runner Up, 2022 Jane Chambers Award, WTP/ATHE
    Finalist, 2023 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

    Deacon Joan strives to become a womanpriest in the Roman Catholic church, but her new posting in Bridgeport, Connecticut begs answers beyond the spiritual—about the wealth gap in America, healing a country that’s sick and how we find faith again after we’ve lost it.
  • Lei Chiede/ She Asks by Christina Pumariega
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 11 more
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    Keyword: bond between sisters, women in World War II + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, faith-based, immersive, melodrama, movement/physical, period, political, tragedy, young audiences
    Keyword: bond between sisters, women in World War II, World War II, prisoners of war, interrogation, Baltimore, BALTIMORE HISTORY, early immigrants
    Finalist, 2022 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

    Rose Palazzolo has been keeping a secret for 70 years. Her sisters want it. Her children want it. Her granddaughter finds it. Based on true events both past and present, this time-traveling story follows four first-generation Italian American sisters trying to survive in World War II Baltimore.
  • Her Math Play by Christina Pumariega
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: mathematician, mathematics + 5 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, drama, fantasy, political, romantic comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: mathematician, mathematics, a mother's love, daughter-mother relationship, Latinx, Latinx family, South Florida
    Selection, 2023 EST/Sloan Project Regional Commission with Hartford Stage Company
    Finalist, 2023 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival

    JoAnne loves Math like a person. But it's the very language her artist daughter Sam fails to speak. Inspired by the author’s math professor mom, Her Math Play is a laugh out loud love letter to mothers, daughters, latent feminism and Math told in...
    Selection, 2023 EST/Sloan Project Regional Commission with Hartford Stage Company
    Finalist, 2023 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival

    JoAnne loves Math like a person. But it's the very language her artist daughter Sam fails to speak. Inspired by the author’s math professor mom, Her Math Play is a laugh out loud love letter to mothers, daughters, latent feminism and Math told in equations and whale song.