HEATHER CHRISTIAN is a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, Drama Desk and two-time Obie Award-winning composer/performer making music-centered shows and rituals. She is a 2021 Richard Rodgers Award winner, 2025 Larson Grant winner, 2022 Stephen Schwartz Outstanding New Composer awardee and Sundance Institute Time Warner Fellow. She has been given the Mississippi Governor’s Arts Award from her home state for excellence in musical composition. Named a current resident at the Signature Theater in New York, many of her shows, past and present, can be seen in the coming years. Recent composing/performing credits include her own work Oratorio for Living Things (Signature Center NYC, 2025; Ars Nova, 2022), Terce: A Practical Breviary (HERE Arts Center and Prototype), Animal Wisdom (The Bushwick Starr; now a motion picture, with a new production at the Signature Theater in 2026), I Am Sending You the Sacred Face (Theater in Quarantine/YouTube — Vulture’s Top Theater Experience of 2020) and Prime: A Practical Breviary (Playwrights Horizons Soundstage — IndieWire’s #1 Podcast Episode of 2020), in addition to being a lead artist on devised works Mission Drift (National Theatre London) and The World Is Round (Brooklyn Academy of Music). She has been tapped to adapt music and lyrics for the beloved children’s novel A Wrinkle in Time with book writer Lauren Yee. Often a collaborator with dance, her work has recently been seen in various pieces by Jane Comfort (Jane Comfort and Company) and Matthew Neenan (Ailey). She has released 13 records, owns and operates her own recording studio in Beacon, N.Y., and can be seen regularly in concert halls and dive bars as Heather Christian & the Arbornauts.