Christina Pumariega

Christina Pumariega acts and writes. Often simultaneously. She most recently performed in her two-hander play ¡VOS! at the 2024 Ojai Playwrights Conference prior to its world premiere at Two River Theater in spring 2025.

Other plays include JOAN DARK (Colorado New Play Summit), HARBOR GIRLS and HER MATH PLAY (EST/Sloan Grant). An O’Neill NPC finalist for the last three years, Christina’s work has been developed at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, the New Harmony Project, the Lark, New Georges, Hartford Stage Company and Ammunition Theatre Company. She is currently under commission by the Denver Center and Two River Theater, and will attend Hedgebrook in fall 2025.

TV writing credits include “Turner & Hooch” (Disney+) and “Bluff City Law” (NBC).

Acting on and Off-Broadway and in...

Christina Pumariega acts and writes. Often simultaneously. She most recently performed in her two-hander play ¡VOS! at the 2024 Ojai Playwrights Conference prior to its world premiere at Two River Theater in spring 2025.

Other plays include JOAN DARK (Colorado New Play Summit), HARBOR GIRLS and HER MATH PLAY (EST/Sloan Grant). An O’Neill NPC finalist for the last three years, Christina’s work has been developed at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, the New Harmony Project, the Lark, New Georges, Hartford Stage Company and Ammunition Theatre Company. She is currently under commission by the Denver Center and Two River Theater, and will attend Hedgebrook in fall 2025.

TV writing credits include “Turner & Hooch” (Disney+) and “Bluff City Law” (NBC).

Acting on and Off-Broadway and in television and film, Pumariega has cross examined Coach Taylor, made out with the Fly and set a Cuban pharmacy ablaze in a corset.

Born and raised all over the south, her father is Cuban, her mother is Italian-American. MFA Acting, NYU.

Scripts

Labor

by Christina Pumariega

Synopsis

Commission (current), Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Nurses Jo, Ngozi and Amor work their asses off caring for moms and babies in the maternity ward graveyard shift. But over thirty years in a system that undervalues that care, a lot can change. A funny, wild postpartum fever dream told by women laboring in America.

Commission (current), Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Nurses Jo, Ngozi and Amor work their asses off caring for moms and babies in the maternity ward graveyard shift. But over thirty years in a system that undervalues that care, a lot can change. A funny, wild postpartum fever dream told by women laboring in America.

¡VOS!

by Christina Pumariega

Synopsis

World Premiere, Two River Theater, Spring 2025

Selection (upcoming), 2025 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence
Selection, 2024 Ojai Playwrights Conference
Selection, 2023 Cruzando Fronteras Festival at Two River Theater
Selection, 2023 New Harmony Project Residency
Reading, 2023 Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Finalist, 2024 Carlo Annoni Playwriting Prize
Finalist, 2024 National Playwrights Conference at...

World Premiere, Two River Theater, Spring 2025

Selection (upcoming), 2025 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence
Selection, 2024 Ojai Playwrights Conference
Selection, 2023 Cruzando Fronteras Festival at Two River Theater
Selection, 2023 New Harmony Project Residency
Reading, 2023 Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Finalist, 2024 Carlo Annoni Playwriting Prize
Finalist, 2024 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Semifinalist, 2024 Blue Ink Award, American Blues Theater

Annie returns to her estranged birthplace of Buenos Aires to undergo IVF treatments from the famed Dr. Cossi. But her motherhood journey brings to light the lives of two women lost to the Dirty War decades ago. ¡VOS! is an exhilarating hunt for home, family, and the Disappeared; inspired by Las Madres—past, present and hopeful—and told by two Latina actors spinning as fast as they can.

Joan Dark

by Christina Pumariega

Synopsis

Selection, 2023 New Harmony Project Residency
Selection, 2023 Colorado New Play Summit at Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Runner Up, 2022 Jane Chambers Award, WTP/ATHE
Finalist, 2023 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

Deacon Joan strives to become a womanpriest in the Roman Catholic church, but her new posting in Bridgeport, Connecticut begs answers beyond the...

Selection, 2023 New Harmony Project Residency
Selection, 2023 Colorado New Play Summit at Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Runner Up, 2022 Jane Chambers Award, WTP/ATHE
Finalist, 2023 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

Deacon Joan strives to become a womanpriest in the Roman Catholic church, but her new posting in Bridgeport, Connecticut begs answers beyond the spiritual—about the wealth gap in America, healing a country that’s sick and how we find faith again after we’ve lost it.

Harbor Girls

by Christina Pumariega

Synopsis

Finalist, 2022 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
(Formerly known as Lei Chiede)

Rose Palazzolo has been keeping a secret for 70 years. Her sisters want it. Her children want it. Her granddaughter finds it. Based on true events both past and present, this time-traveling story follows four Italian American sisters trying to survive in World War II Baltimore Harbor.

Finalist, 2022 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
(Formerly known as Lei Chiede)

Rose Palazzolo has been keeping a secret for 70 years. Her sisters want it. Her children want it. Her granddaughter finds it. Based on true events both past and present, this time-traveling story follows four Italian American sisters trying to survive in World War II Baltimore Harbor.

Her Math Play

by Christina Pumariega

Synopsis

Selection, 2023 EST/Sloan Project Regional Commission with Hartford Stage Company
Finalist, 2023 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival

JoAnne loves Math like a person. But it's the very language her artist daughter Sam fails to speak. Inspired by the author’s math professor mom, Her Math Play is a laugh out loud love letter to mothers, daughters, latent feminism and Math told in equations and whale song.

Selection, 2023 EST/Sloan Project Regional Commission with Hartford Stage Company
Finalist, 2023 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival

JoAnne loves Math like a person. But it's the very language her artist daughter Sam fails to speak. Inspired by the author’s math professor mom, Her Math Play is a laugh out loud love letter to mothers, daughters, latent feminism and Math told in equations and whale song.