Biography:
Cristina Alicea is a freelance director who has worked in both the New York City alternative theater community and Off Broadway for the past 7 years. Some of which include The International FringeNYC Festival, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Culture Project.
Some directing highlights include Blackbird by Adam Rapp, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan (The Michael Chekhov Theatre Company); Conversation with a Kleagle by Rudy Gray (Thirteenth Street Repertory Company); and The State of the Art by emerging playwright David Stallings, which premiered Off Broadway as a part of Women Center Stage - a national festival highlighting 4 Emerging Female Directors (The Culture Project). Regionally, Cristina directed the West Coast premiere of A Beautiful View by acclaimed Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco.
Cristina is also a co-founder and the Executive Director of MTWorks, a New York City based company whose mission is birth new plays inspired by playwrights and regions outside of New York. With MTWorks she has directed 4 world premieres; most recently MTWorks' production of The Oath by Jacqueline Goldfinger which ran in the spring of 2009.
Some directing highlights include Blackbird by Adam Rapp, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan (The Michael Chekhov Theatre Company); Conversation with a Kleagle by Rudy Gray (Thirteenth Street Repertory Company); and The State of the Art by emerging playwright David Stallings, which premiered Off Broadway as a part of Women Center Stage - a national festival highlighting 4 Emerging Female Directors (The Culture Project). Regionally, Cristina directed the West Coast premiere of A Beautiful View by acclaimed Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco.
Cristina is also a co-founder and the Executive Director of MTWorks, a New York City based company whose mission is birth new plays inspired by playwrights and regions outside of New York. With MTWorks she has directed 4 world premieres; most recently MTWorks' production of The Oath by Jacqueline Goldfinger which ran in the spring of 2009.
This past year, Cristina became a finalist for the 2009 Denham fellowship given by the SDC for emerging female directors, became an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and became a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.