The Windham-Campbell Awards Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Award The winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher.
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Christina Anderson, recipient of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Award for Drama, talks to Michael Kelleher about Wallace Shawn’s seminal, strange, and recently revived 1990 monologue Fever.
Christina Anderson Is a playwright, TV writer, screenwriter and teacher. His work has been produced across the country, including at such theaters as 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 a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, a Horton Foote Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, a Lilly Awards Harper Lee Award, a Herb Alpert nomination, a Barrymore nomination for Outstanding New Play, and a Golden Globe Award. Play, and New Dramatists Residency. He has taught playwriting at Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase, Wesleyan University, Yale School of Drama, and served as interim head of playwriting at Brown University. An avid photographer for nearly ten years, the Magnum Awards review described Christina’s work as “compelling” and “poignant.” Since 2019, he has produced hip hop instrumentals under the alias Purely Magenta.
