Christina Anderson on Wallace Shawn’s The Fever

Christina Anderson, a 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for Drama, talks with Michael Kelleher astir Wallace Shawn’s seminal, strange, and recently-revived 1990 monologue The Fever.

Christina Anderson is simply a playwright, tv writer, screenwriter, and educator. Her enactment has been produced crossed the state including theaters specified arsenic Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and Yale Rep. A Tony nominated writer for Outstanding Book of a Broadway musical, Anderson has received the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the Horton Foote Prize, the United States Artists Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship, Lily Awards Harper Lee Prize, Herb Alpert nomination, Barrymore Nomination for Outstanding New Play, and New Dramatist residency. She’s taught playwriting astatine Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase, Wesleyan University, Yale School of Drama, and served arsenic the interim Head of Playwriting astatine Brown University. An avid lensman for astir 10 years, the Magnum grant reappraisal described Christina’s enactment arsenic “compelling” and “poignant.”  Since 2019, she has produced hep hop instrumentals nether the moniker Purely Magenta.