Christopher Burney is the Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film. Previously, he was the Tony Nominated Artistic Producer of New York’s Second Stage Theatre where he worked since 1996. Highlights of the over 100 productions he has shepherded include: the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner?Between Riverside and Crazy; 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner?Water by the Spoonful?by Quiara Alegria Hudes; 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner?Next to Normal?by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey;?Dear Evan Hansen?by Steven Levenson, Benj Paskek and Justin Paul;?The Last Five Years?by Jason Robert Brown;?By the Way, Meet Vera Stark?by?Lynn Nottage;?Trust and Lonely, I’m Not?by Paul Weitz;?The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity?by Kristoffer Diaz;?Everyday Rapture?by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott;?Let Me Down Easy?by Anna Deavere Smith;?Becky Shaw?by Gina Gionfriddo;?Eurydice?by Sarah Ruhl;?The Little Dog Laughed?by Douglas Carter Beane;?Metamorphoses?by Mary Zimmerman;?The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee?by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin;?Jitney?by August Wilson;?Jar the Floor by Cheryl L. West;?Crowns?by Regina Taylor;?Saturday Night?by Stephen Sondheim;?Afterbirth: Kathy & Mo’s Greatest Hits?by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy; and?Tiny Alice?by Edward Albee. As a champion of emerging artists, he has launched the careers of Rajiv Joseph, Leslye Headland, Michael Golamco, Chisa, Hutchison, Kenneth Lin, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Brooke Berman, Adam Bock, among many others. An advocate for the importance of fostering future generations of theater artists and practitioners, he is on faculty at Columbia University where he teaches creative producing. He has lectured at Barnard College, The Einhorn School for the Performing Arts at Primary Stages, The Juilliard School, Bard College, The Boston School of Music, Marymount Manhattan College and the New England Theatre Conference.?He currently serves as a member of the Tony Awards Nominating Committee. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, BA, and Columbia University, MFA.
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Alumnus Christopher Burney '94 Named Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film
New York Stage and Film, a non-profit dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development of new works for theater and film, announced?that?Christopher Burney?’94 will become its next?Artistic Director.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theatre
Theatre Alumnus 1994