Theater Director
CHRISTAIN ÁVILA
Biography
Christian Ávila is a theater director, playwright, and actor based in New York City. Recent credits include Dark Yes (work in progress co-creator with Richard Schechner/ ensemble), Masseur (co-director, playwright, producer) at Theater for the New City (2018 Dream Up-Festival). Debates (co-creator) with Theater in Asylum, performed at The Drama League. He is founding member of Back to Work Collective creating Feminist Flashmob performed at The Women’s March on Washington D.C. in 2017. Chasing the Dream (Co-creator, performer) Columbia University.
Ávila also directed, wrote, and produced Daddy’s Boy at Theater for the New City in 2015. Other credits include: Big Love, Daddy’s Boy Alice, Falling in Line at PTC, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land at TDPS, Berkeley. On stage in 20 Questions and Last Unicorn at TDPS, and on screen as Host and Co-Creator of Club TV in San Francisco.
He holds an M.A. Theater from LIU Post. His undergraduate studies were at UC Berkeley (B.A. Dramatic Art). He has studied under the tutelage of Stan Lai, Anne Bogart, SITI Company, and Richard Schechner and is a Drama League semi-finalist for the 2019 New York Directing Fellowship.
Masseur
Christian Avila-Playwright, Co- Director, Producer
Melissa Flower -Co-Director, Producer
Theater for the New City
Cast: Caleigh Drane, Broderick Merritt Ballantyne, Brandon Otis
2018
CHRISTIAN ÁVILA
Theater Director
Biography
Christian Ávila is a theater director, playwright, and actor based in New York City. Recent credits include Dark Yes (work in progress co-creator with Richard Schechner/ ensemble), Masseur (co-director, playwright, producer) at Theater for the New City (2018 Dream Up-Festival). Debates (co-creator) with Theater in Asylum, performed at The Drama League. He is founding member of Back to Work Collective creating Feminist Flashmob performed at The Women’s March on Washington D.C. in 2017. Chasing the Dream (Co-creator, performer) Columbia University.
Ávila also directed, wrote, and produced Daddy’s Boy at Theater for the New City in 2015. Other credits include: Big Love, Daddy’s Boy Alice, Falling in Line at PTC, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land at TDPS, Berkeley. On stage in 20 Questions and Last Unicorn at TDPS, and on screen as Host and Co-Creator of Club TV in San Francisco.
He holds an M.A. Theater from LIU Post. His undergraduate studies were at UC Berkeley (B.A. Dramatic Art). He has studied under the tutelage of Stan Lai, Anne Bogart, SITI Company, and Richard Schechner and is a Drama League semi-finalist for the 2019 New York Directing Fellowship.
Portfolio
The Debates
Created by Christian Avila, Lawrence Dreyfuss,
Kara Hankard, Samantha Keogh, Colleen Hughes, Diana Levy, Katie Palmer, Emily Rose Prats, and Dan Stearns.
Drama League
2017
Feminist Flashmob
Created and Performed by Back to Work Collective
Woman’s March on Washington
2017
Daddy’s Boy (Actor's Equity Showcase)
Christian Avila-Playwright, Director, Producer
Theater for the New City
Cast: David Conrad Brouillard, Julia Gyory, Aya Esther Hayashi Jonathan Palmiotti, Christopher Staley*, Kyle Stockburger, Rachel Whorton, Nick Zale
*(member of AEA)
2015