Christine Sumption

Adjunct Instructor

CSumption@cornish.edu

Christine Sumption is a Seattle-based theatre artist who has served as a dramaturg for Sundance Theatre Lab, the New Harmony Project, Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. She has worked with playwrights Tanya Barfield (Blue Door), Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House), Michael Louis Serafin-Wells (My Before and After), Kathleen Tolan (Memory House), and Cheryl L. West (Pullman Porter Blues), among many others. Her directing credits include productions at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, and DARTS/Company Subaru in Tokyo, where she served as Resident Director for three years. She was on the artistic staff of Seattle Repertory Theatre for nine seasons, where she served as dramaturg/literary manager, edited publications, and produced the annual Women Playwrights Festival in partnership with Hedgebrook, a Whidbey Island writers retreat. She is now the Resident Dramaturg at Hedgebrook; Co-Curator (with Anita Montgomery) of the Construction Zone, a new play reading series at ACT; and teaches at Cornish College of the Arts. Hedgebrook Plays, Volume 1, which she co-edited with Liz Engelman will be published by Whit Press in the fall. Sumption received her BFA in Drama from the University of Montana and her MFA in Directing from the University of Washington School of Drama.