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HEATHER CHRISTIAN
PREMIERE WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
 
Signature Productions:
Oratorio For Living Things (2025)
Animal Wisdom (2026)
 
HEATHER CHRISTIAN is a Drama Desk and two-time Obie Award-winning composer/librettist/performer making music-centered shows and rituals. Recent shows include her own work Terce: A Practical Breviary (Prototype Festival/HERE Arts Center), Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova), Prime: A Practical Breviary (Playwrights Horizons Soundstage), I am Sending you the Sacred Face (Theater in Quarantine, virtual theater) Animal Wisdom (The Bushwick Starr, now a feature film co-produced by ACT and Woolly Mammoth, coming to Signature in spring 2026) in addition to being a lead artist on devised works Mission Drift (Nat’l Theater London) and The World Is Round (BAM). She is also the composer and lyricist of the upcoming Broadway-bound adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, written with Lauren Yee, which premiered at Arena Stage in DC in 2025. Recent Film and TV composition: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (BBC and Netflix), Teenage Euthanasia (Adult Swim), The Shivering Truth (Adult Swim), The Craft: Legacy (Blumhouse), and Lemon (Dir. Janicza Bravo). She was named one of Time Out NY’s Downtown Innovators To Watch, was given a special citation by the New York Drama Critics Circle for musical innovation in 2024, and has been awarded the Richard Rodgers, Stephen Schwartz, and Jonathan Larson Prizes. She’s released 11 records, has taught at NYU and Princeton, operates her own recording studio in Beacon, NY, and can be seen in concert as Heather Christian & The Arbornauts.