CRISTINA ANGELES (co-curator, director Castillos de Plástico) is an Afrolatina director, writer, and theater maker who develops new plays, musicals, and socially conscious adaptations of classics that place women of color at the forefront, while confronting the intersections between our public, private, and political selves. She has been awarded the Drama League Directing Fellowship, the Roundabout Directing Fellowship, and has worked as an associate director on and off Broadway. Today, Cristina is the Associate Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company, and the Founding Artistic Director of Checkmark Productions, a NYC based company dedicated to artists of the global majority and the telling of their stories. Cristina was named one of the Broadway Women’s Fund’s “Women to Watch” of 2022, and her recent directing credits include Hilary Bettis’s Queen of Basel at Theaterworks Hartford, and overseeing the North American productions of SIX: The Musical. More at www.cristinaangeles.com
