christina michelle watkins

christina michelle (she/her) is a BlackQueer writer, performer, and licensed clinical therapist. She hails from Augusta, Georgia, bounced to the Midwest for young adulthood, and has called Oakland, California home for over a decade. Her artistic works explore the nonlinear nature of time, trauma/healing, mysticism, and how one goes about surviving the end of one world while creating the next. Artistic highlights include: Overall Excellence in Playwriting Award, New York International Fringe Festival (2013); New Harmony Project Residency Writer (2022); Finalist, Fault Line’s Irons in the Fire (2025); founding member of Atlanta’s Fabrefaction Theatre Company.

christina michelle (she/her) is a BlackQueer writer, performer, and licensed clinical therapist. She hails from Augusta, Georgia, bounced to the Midwest for young adulthood, and has called Oakland, California home for over a decade. Her artistic works explore the nonlinear nature of time, trauma/healing, mysticism, and how one goes about surviving the end of one world while creating the next. Artistic highlights include: Overall Excellence in Playwriting Award, New York International Fringe Festival (2013); New Harmony Project Residency Writer (2022); Finalist, Fault Line’s Irons in the Fire (2025); founding member of Atlanta’s Fabrefaction Theatre Company.

Scripts

kumrad's wont

by christina michelle watkins

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

Twenty-two year old Ponce works at a diner on the road to nowhere. She has a crush on her coworker, Walter, a fifty-two year old veteran. Tonight, Ponce has braved a snowstorm to meet Walter at his crummy apartment. Over shared whiskey, cigarettes, and e.e. cummings, they show us what can happen when two lonely, damaged people make a connection across impossible circumstances.

Twenty-two year old Ponce works at a diner on the road to nowhere. She has a crush on her coworker, Walter, a fifty-two year old veteran. Tonight, Ponce has braved a snowstorm to meet Walter at his crummy apartment. Over shared whiskey, cigarettes, and e.e. cummings, they show us what can happen when two lonely, damaged people make a connection across impossible circumstances.

By the Banks

by christina michelle watkins

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

Two semi-estranged sisters, Rory and Norah, reunite at the Wabash River to spread their father's ashes. As night falls and scars rip open, boundaries between the past and present blur. Nature itself arises to contain and transform the two as they grapple with the impact of choices made long ago. What happens when the cost of survival is leaving someone behind?

Two semi-estranged sisters, Rory and Norah, reunite at the Wabash River to spread their father's ashes. As night falls and scars rip open, boundaries between the past and present blur. Nature itself arises to contain and transform the two as they grapple with the impact of choices made long ago. What happens when the cost of survival is leaving someone behind?