Galilee By Christine Evans Directed by Michael Bloom
Galilee takes place amidst the collision of competing economic and ecological forces in a small Australian coastal town on the Great Barrier Reef. As the sea temperatures rise and the world’s first hybrid blackfin sharks appear, biologist Carol, her mother Mardy, and the old-time diver Jimmy struggle with their own decisions—fight, flee, or adapt to the changing environment?
Christine Evans’ plays are produced in Australia, the US and the UK, and published by Samuel French and elsewhere. World premieres include Trojan Barbie (American Repertory Theater); Slow Falling Bird (Crowded Fire), My Vicious Angel and Pussy Boy (Belvoir St.); Weightless, Mothergun and All Souls’ Day (Perishable Theatre); and Can’t Complain (forthcoming, Spooky Action Theater, 2015.) Her first novel, Cloudless, will be published in 2015.
Honors include the Rella Lossy Playwrights Award, the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, Bogliasco Foundation and Rockefeller Bellagio Center Fellowships, residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell Colony, an Australia Council New Work grant and two Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowships. A Fulbright alumna and Playwrights Center Core Member, she holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Brown, taught at Harvard from 2007-12, and joined Georgetown’s Department of Performing Arts in 2012.