Heather Christian

HEATHER CHRISTIAN is a Drama Desk and 2 time Obie Award winning composer/librettist/ performer. Recent shows include her own work Terce: A Practical Breviary (Prototype Festival/ HERE Arts Center)Oratorio for Living Things(Ars Nova), Prime: A Practical Breviary (Playwrights Horizons Soundstage) Animal Wisdom (The Bushwick Starr,) in addition to being a lead artist on devised works Mission Drift (Nat’l Theater London), The World Is Round (BAM). Recent Film and TV Composition: (A Good Girls Guide to Murder (BBC and Netflix), Teenage Euthanasia(Adult Swim) The Shivering Truth(Adult Swim), The Craft: Legacy(Blumhouse) Lemon (Dir. Janicza Bravo). She was named one of TimeOut NY’s Downtown Innovators To Watch, was given a special citation by the New York Drama Critics Circle for musical innovation in 2024 and has been awarded both the Richard Rogers and Stephen Schwartz Prizes.She’s released 11 records, taught at NYU and Princeton, operates her own recording studio in Beacon, NY, and can be seen regularly in concert as Heather Christian & the Arbornauts.