Christopher Shinn was born in Hartford and lives in New York. His plays include Four, Where Do We Live, What Didn't Happen, The Coming World, On the Mountain, Other People and Dying City. They have been produced at Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Rep, Lincoln Center, and Soho Theatre. He is a winner of an Obie in Playwriting and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting. He has received grants from the NEA/TCG Residency Program, the Ovid Foundation, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation, and he is a recipient of the Robert S. Chesley Award. His plays are available in collections from TCG and Methuen. He teaches playwriting at the New School for Drama.

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Dying City	Second Stage Theatre	06/03/2019	Playwright
2	Picked	Vineyard Theatre	04/20/2011	Playwright
3	Dying City	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	03/04/2007	Playwright
4	On the Mountain	Playwrights Horizons	02/24/2005	Author
5	Where Do We Live?	Vineyard Theatre	05/11/2004	Playwright
6	What Didn't Happen	The Duke on 42nd Street	12/10/2002	Playwright
7	Four	New York City Center/ Stage II	02/19/2002	Playwright

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Dying City	Second Stage Theatre	06/03/2019	Director
2	Where Do We Live?	Vineyard Theatre	05/11/2004	Director

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2008 Pulitzer Prize, Drama	Dying City	Playwright
2	NOMINATED	2007 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Dying City	Playwright
3	WON	2005 Obie Award, Playwriting	Where Do We Live?	Playwright