Christian St. Croix
He/Him/His
San Diego, CA
Christian St. Croix’s plays include MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA, ZACH and WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS.
Biography

Christian St. Croix is a queer, Black, award-winning playwright living and working in San Diego, California. Often taking place over a single day or weekend, his urban and rural slice-of-life tales are infused with magical realism, and his characters narrate their own stories from behind the kitchen sink. St. Croix’s plays include the sibling motel fantasy drama (and 2022 O'Neill Finalist), WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS, 90s teen soap satire, ZACH, and the haunting father-son fable, MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA.

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Agent Information

Bonnie Davis bdavis@bretadamsltd.net

Plays

by Christian St. Croix

When his husband dies, Remy Washington, a Black man, finds himself both the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his late husband’s straight, white teenage son, Pup. United by their love of classic American monster movies, the two have developed a warm and caring familial chemistry – but their relationship fractures when Remy discovers Pup and his friends have been bullying a gay teen at his school. Told through dueting monologue and playful dialogue, Monsters of the American Cinema is a haunting and humorous tale about fathers and sons, ghosts and monsters.

Cast:
One Black male, 30s. One white male, teens.
by Christian St. Croix

On a scorching summer night at a Riverside, California motel, Archie, a queer Black man reaching the ends of several ropes, upends his life (yet again) to save his half-brother Nick from the rock bottom of a cross-county bender. As the heat rises and painful memories of their shared past begin to surface, the brothers recall an imaginary world they’d created together as children, and meet other motel residents with troubled pasts and imaginary worlds of their own. Drama and comedy blend with pirate tales, alien adventures and fantasy creatures in We Are the Forgotten Beasts, a fantastical tale about fathers and brothers, trauma, childhood and the imagination.

Cast:
1 Black Male, early 20s; 1 Biracial Black Male, late 20s; 1 Black Female, late 20s; 1 Latino/x/Hispanic Male, late 20s
by Christian St. Croix

A satirical comedy that lovingly skewers the popular tropes of the 90s teen sitcom, Zach introduces us to the lives and loves of Gina and P.J., a Black girl and a Latino boy at an affluent, majority-white Southern California high school. P.J., a lovesick surfer boy, and Gina, a budding fashionista, are overjoyed when they're invited into the inner circle of Zach, the white, charismatic, prank-happy new kid at school. But when Zach plans a prank that goes too far, P.J. and Gina must race to stop him before it's too late - and along the way, learn to see their peers, and themselves, with fresh eyes.

Cast:
Black Female, Teens; Latino/x/Hispanic Male, Teens

Successes

My play, "Monsters of the American Cinema" will be making its Los Angeles premiere with the Rogue Machine Theatre. It opens April 6, 2024.

My original play, Monsters of the American Cinema is making its world premiere at the ArtsWest Playhouse in Seattle, Washington. It'll run live until February 20, 2022, and digitally until March 22, 2022.

I was featured in American Theatre Magazine's latest Role Call: People to Watch installment.