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Christiana is “top-notch” (New York Times)
Posted on July 23, 2014 Leave a Comment
The World’s Fair Play Fest is a Critic’s Pick! From Neil Genzlinger, of the New York Times, July 23, 2014: “‘Carousel of Progress” by Lauren Yee is the standout. It opens with a hilarious animatronic man (Rajesh Bose) from the attraction of that name at the 1964 fair; you can’t take your eyes off Mr. […]
Christiana Cole in URBAN MOMFARE at the NYC Fringe
Posted on July 20, 2014 Leave a Comment
Christiana Cole heads up the cast of URBAN MOMFARE in the NYC Fringe Festival. The stiletto-tapping new musical (words and music by Pamela Weiler Grayson) follows the lives of three Upper East Side moms as they navigate the “cosmo jungle,” bringing up kids in the big city. Christiana plays newbie mom (and leading lady) Kate. The […]
Christiana premieres two new plays in the World’s Fair Play Festival
Posted on July 11, 2014 Leave a Comment
Christiana Cole premieres new plays by Wendy MacLeod and Lauren Yee as part of the World’s Fair Play Festival, at the Queens Theatre, July 18-27. The WFPL is a presentation of ten original ten-minute plays inspired by the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. The WFPF celebrates the rich, vibrant history that continues to animate Flushing Meadows Corona […]
Christiana accepted into the BMI Advanced Writer’s Workshop
Posted on June 26, 2014 Leave a Comment
On June 3, 2014, Christiana Cole and her collaborator Bradford Proctor presented a 20-minute excerpt from their musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” The cast included April Woodall, Annie Watkins, Justin Friello, Arri Lawton Simon, Ben Boecker, Laura Kleinbaum and Christiana. Based on this presentation, the BMI Steering Committee (led by Alan Menken and Maury […]
Christiana wins THE MOTH
Posted on June 23, 2014 Leave a Comment
Christiana Cole told a story about something weird that happened to her when she was 10, in front of a sold-out crowd at the Housing Works Bookstore as part of the The Moth storytelling series. Nine other storytellers also told stories, but Christiana won. She’ll be going to the Grand Slam at the Williamsburg Music Hall in […]
Christiana joins the voice faculty at the New York Film Academy
Posted on May 18, 2014
Christiana Little is proud to join the New York Film Academy‘s private voice faculty, teaching students in NYFA’s Musical Theatre program. Christiana has taught voice privately for ten years, and is delighted to have the opportunity to work with the students at NYFA. For more information about studying voice with Christiana, read her teaching letter […]
Christiana Little cast in reading of “Helen of Troy”
Posted on April 23, 2014 1 Comment
Christiana Little has been cast as the trouble-making Antichorus in a reading of “Helen of Troy,” a new musical by Zoe Samuel (book/lyrics) and Douglas Cohen (music). 2013 Callaway award winner Marlo Hunter directs. Cast includes Broadway alums Stephanie D’Abruzzo as Andromache and Hannah Elless as Helen. The reading will be presented on May 1st.
Christiana Little is Laurie Partridge in THE BARDY BUNCH
Posted on March 22, 2014
Christiana Little is Laurie Partridge in the THE BARDY BUNCH: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady, running March 20 – April 13 at the Theatre at St. Clements. “In the summer of 1974, the Brady and Partridge Families, recently canceled by ABC and no longer under America’s watchful eye, met in a blood-soaked, […]
THE CHARM by Christiana Little & David Shenton in SoundBites Festival on Dec. 9, 2013
Posted on December 4, 2013
“THE CHARM,” a ten-minute musical by Christiana Little (book/lyrics) and David Shenton (music) has been selected as a finalist for the first-ever SoundBites Festival, part of Theatre Now New York. “The Charm” is about a pair a newlyweds, fresh from a fairy tale wedding, who are struck by a very modern fear: how will they […]
Christiana Little cast in TEETH, by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson
Posted on November 22, 2013
TEETH, by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson, is a musical adaptation of the 2006 Sundance Award-winning indie horror film of the same name that tells the story of Dawn O’Keefe, an evangelical Christian teen who discovers that she has teeth in her vagina. When forces conspire to destroy her, Dawn must decide which […]
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