Christopher’s latest work was a commission from New World Symphony (Michael Tilson-Thomas, artistic director) to write a play for actors and classical musicians. The result, The Inherent Sadness of Low-Lying Areas, explores his experience with PTSD. It premiered in 2018 and was hailed as “a touching short play with a harrowing undercurrent” (WBUR). His previous play Dreams of the Washer King premiered Off Broadway and was subsequently produced in LA (Backstage Critic’s Pick). He has a wide range of projects in development: a mother-daughter musical called The God of In-Between, with songs that have been performed at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater; a sci-fi punk musical called Sweet Vapor; an opera, At Sea, exploring the tragic results when an employee is ordered to deny insurance claims after a hurricane; and an adaptation of the Odyssey called Man of Twists and Turns. His work has been presented or developed at the Playwrights Realm and Abingdon Theatre in New York, Kitchen Dog in Dallas, Northern Stage in Vermont, Voxfest at Dartmouth, Theatre Forty in LA, HotCity in St. Louis, Round House in Bethesda, Source Theater and Charter Theater in DC, Shadowbox Cabaret in Columbus, and at Fairfield University. Christopher has been a resident at SPACE on Ryder Farm and was a fellow at the Norman Mailer Center, where he pursued his other love, nonfiction. His essays have appeared in Longform, the LA Review of Books, The Missouri Review, Poets & Writers, and other magazines. Three of his works have been cited as a Notable Essay of the Year in the Best American Essays anthology.