Advisory Board – Associate Artistic Director at Second Stage Theatre, NYC
Christopher Burney serves as both the Associate Artistic Director of NewYork’s Second Stage Theatre and Curator of 2ST Uptown. He has worked with Second Stage since 1997. At Second Stage, he has shepherded productions of Bachelorette, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Trust, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, Becky Shaw, and Let Me Down Easy (conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith). While at Second Stage he has worked with such writers as Douglas Carter Beane, Paul Weitz, Craig Lucas, Lanford Wilson, William Finn, Stephen Sondheim, Sam Shepard, David Ives, Kenneth Lonergan, Albert Innuarto, Cheryl West, Martin Sherman, Wallace Shawn, Jason Miller, Wendy Kesselman, August Wilson, William Finn, Michael John LaChiusa and Stephen Sondheim. He has worked with many leading directors such as Trip Cullman, Peter Dubois, Mark Brokaw, Scott Ellis, Michael Greif, Gary Hines, James Lapine, Marion McClinton, and Kathleen Marshall. As curator for 2ST Uptown he has developed numerous emerging writers and directors including Rajiv Joseph, Marisa Wegrzyn, Roberto Aguirre Sacasa, Brooke Berman, Adam Bock, Carly Mensch, Trip Cullman and Joe Calarco, among others.
Christopher worked from 1991-1997 at The Lincoln Center Theater as the Assistant to the Director of Musical Theatre. He has consulted for organizations including the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the Kesselring Prize, the KurtWeill Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jerome Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University in the School of the Arts and has lectured at Barnard College, The Einhorn School for the Performing Arts at Primary Stages, The Juilliard School, Bard College, The Boston School of Music, Marymount Manhattan College and the New England Theatre Conference. Christopher is a graduate of Brandeis University, B.A., and Columbia University, M.F.A.
