Christopher Burney

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Christopher Burney is a Tony-Nominated Producer, Educator, Dramaturg and Creative Consultant. He served as the Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film where he guided the company through the COVID pandemic, creating new programs and partnerships that supported over 600 artists and expanded the company’s place in the Hudson Valley. For over 20 years he worked with New York’s Second Stage Theatre as Artistic Producer. During that time he shepherded over 120 new plays and revivals including works by Edward Albee, Douglas Carter Beane, Jason Robert Brown, Kristoffer Diaz, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Lynn Nottage, Sarah Ruhl, Anna Deavere Smith, Cheryl West, Augst Wilson, and Mary Zimmerman. Musical highlights include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin; Crowns by Regina Taylor; Saturday Night by Stephen Sondheim; and Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. As a champion of emerging writers, he has launched the careers of Rajiv Joseph, Leslye Headland, Chisa Hutchison, Kenneth Lin, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Brooke Berman, Adam Bock, among many others. He is on faculty at Columbia University and has taught at Marymount College, The Dalton School, Barnard College, The Einhorn School for the Performing Arts at Primary Stages, The Juilliard School, and Bard College. Since 2019, he has served as a member of the Tony Awards Nominating Committee. He has served on numerous award and residency programs including NEA Theater Panels, The Lortel Awards, The Horton Foote Prize, The Jerome Fellowship, Athena Film Festival’s Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer Award , The Barbara Whitman Early Career Directing Award, The Hermitage Theater Residencies and Major Theater Award, and The Playwrights Center Core Writers Program. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, B.A., and Columbia University, M.F.A.