Christopher Cartmill is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and dramaturg. He teaches courses in global theatre, advanced text analysis, and dramaturgy. His plays have been produced internationally, earning multiple Joseph Jefferson citations in Chicago, the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award for La Chasse. His adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, published by Playscripts, Inc., has received over 100 productions nationwide. His new work, The Friedrich Room, is currently in development.

Cartmill was the 2009 Flournoy Playwright at Washington and Lee University, joining a distinguished cohort that includes Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute, and was commissioned by the Lied Center for the Performing Arts in Nebraska. His experience writing Home Land for the Lied informed his solo performance work The Nebraska Dispatches, later published as a memoir by the University of Nebraska Press.

A skilled translator, Cartmill has adapted works by Molière, Voltaire, Carlo Gozzi, and George Sand. His directing credits span theatre, opera, and cabaret in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, as well as film; his short film The Ferris Wheel Song opened the 2008 Coney Island Film Festival. At Mason Gross, he has directed a wide range of productions, including Friedrich Schiller’s Maid of Orleans and Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon.

As a performer, Cartmill has appeared in film, television, voiceover, and interactive media, with credits including Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, National Geographic’s Killing Lincoln, PBS and NPR narrations, and the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. In addition to his creative work, he has developed arts-integrated educational programs for New York City public schools and created performance-based programming for institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Yale Center for British Art.