Krista is a Juilliard Fellow, Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, Shank Playwriting Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre, Vanderbilt Writer-in-Residence, Chance Theater Resident Playwright, and winner of the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Samuel French Off Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, and the Broadway on Demand Film Festival.
Plays include SLOPPY BONNIE (OZ Arts, Nashville Scene Critics Pick, Princess Grace Finalist), CRUSH (NYTimes Recommended, TimeOut Best Theater to Stream Online, featured in American Theatre Magazine, streaming on the Emmy App), LIPSTICK LOBOTOMY (Kilroys List, Trap Door Theatre), DON’T STOP ME – a musical with Dave Malloy (YMTC, Manhattan School of Music), KIRK AT THE SF AIRPORT HYATT (New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency), PRIMAL PLAY (New Georges), SELKIE (Williamstown Workshop, Dutch Kills) and CRIMSON LIT: SCARLET LETTER SET LIST – a musical with Jill Sobule (Polyphone Festival, Chance Theater).
Alum of EST’s Youngblood, Page 73’s Writers Group, Civilians R&D Lab, New Georges JAM, Fresh Ground Pepper Playgroup, and The Orchard Project Professional Lab.
Krista has been in residence at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, La Napoule Art Foundation, Tofte Lake, The Orchard Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Page 73’s Summer Residency at Yale, Santa Fe Art Institute, UCROSS, Yaddo, MacDowell and upcoming at Millay Arts.
Commissions include the script for a ride at Tokyo Disney, The Steinmetz Lab, an EST/Sloan Commission, and DreamWorks/Music Theatre International adapting Trolls for the stage.
BA: Brown University. MA: Performance Studies from NYU. MFA Playwriting: UCSD.
2023/2024 Audrey Resident at New Georges and Ingram New Works Fellow at Nashville Rep.
