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Christina is a creative writer who works across screen, poetry and prose.
 
She is currently under commission with the BBC, TG4 and the ILBF to write her first feature film, 'Home', with Village Films producing. 

Christina's debut novel 'While He Looked at the Moon' won the 2023 IWC Novel Fair Award and The Runner-up Comedy Women in Print Prize. 

 
Her poetry has been widely published, performed and anthologised. She is currently working towards her first collection.
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She was commissioned by Screen Ireland and TG4 to write an original TV drama based on her prose poem ‘ag briseadh tríd’ with Keeper Films producing.
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Christina co-wrote 30’ comedy 'Filthy' which was nominated for the Funny Women Comedy Writing Award and subsequently picked up by DLT Entertainment.

She developed projects with What Larks! and Balloon Entertainment and co-created web series and short film, 'Milly & Clare' on MADE TV. 

 
She joined the NT playwriting course, where she created 'Skydiving', a surreal musical comedy that was performed at Shoreditch Townhall. Before that, she wrote 'Heart Shop' (BAC Scratch Festival) 'The Intern' (workshopped at Southbank Centre) and 'Accidents' (Queens Theatre New Writing Festival). 
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Christina trained as an actor at the Oxford School of Drama and was the lead in IFTA nominated adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan, 'Belonging to Laura' (TV3). She played Virginia Woolf in Downton Abbey and also in the feature ‘London Unplugged’ (Theatre release/Amazon) 
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She has written several bilingual performance poems inspired by Irish mythology and was invited to perform at the International Conference on Comparative Mythology.

Her writing has been generously supported by Comedy Women in Print, the University of Hertfordshire, the Irish Writers' Centre, the National Theatre, the Irish Arts Council, Roscommon Arts Office, and the Turing Scholarship Fund.

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