Part-time Faculty
B.A. East Asian Studies, Washington and Lee University, 1984
M.F.A. Acting, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1987
Christopher Cartmill teaches theater with a particular emphasis on mid-17th-century to early 19th-century theatrical literature and practice. He is an award-winning playwright, director and actor. Cartmill was the 2009 Flournoy Playwright in Virginia — following such recent honorees as Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. In 2006, Cartmill was commissioned by Nebraska’s Lied Center for the Performing Art, for which he wrote the play
Home Land . The process of writing the play for the Lied became a book,
The Nebraska Dispatches , published by the University of Nebraska Press. His other accolades include Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago), Drama-Logue Awards (Los Angeles) and the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. He received a B.A. in Chinese and East Asian Studies from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actor's Guild, and AFTRA. He has also created a series of ongoing integrated-arts programs for the New York Public Schools, and he has written and performed special programs for the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale Center for British Art.
