Dramaturgy Concentration Head and Professor of Professional Practice Christian Parker ’98 is currently the dramaturg on, Another Marriage, running at the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago through July 30, 2023.
“You meet. You marry. You have kids. That’s the way it always goes. Or is it? What if your story changes? What would it cost?” Another Marriage weaves an intriguing narrative about the complexities of relationships, resulting in an intimate and beautifully rendered portrait of an ever-evolving relationship that may never be quite finished.
“Most of my background professionally is in new plays and new play development, and working with living playwrights who write in English,” Parker recently said in an interview. “So, that has a lot to do with my dramaturgical practice. But I actually imagine my practice, if I go all the way back to my training here at Columbia, as rooted in the classics and the notion that my job as a dramaturg is, fundamentally, to serve the play.”
Steppenwolf Theatre, a hallmark for groundbreaking productions in Chicago, continues its tradition of excellence with Another Marriage. Tickets are available for purchase here.
Christian Parker is a director, dramaturg, and former Chair of the graduate Theatre Program (2012-19) at Columbia University. Recent projects include David Hare’s Skylight at Gulfshore Playhouse, workshops of Kirk Lynn’s The First Line of Dante’s Inferno at Rattlestick and his My Heart is a Library, Yours is a Museum for New Harmony Project, and Lynn Rosen’s The Imperialists for Theatre Works/Silicon Valley. Other recent productions include Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers for City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh and Leslie Ayvazian’s Out of the City for the Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Massachusetts. He served as dramaturg on The Tempest for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! program, and for the world premiere of the musical Found by Hunter Bell, Lee Overtree and Eli Bolin at the Atlantic Theater Company.
