Christina Pumariega acts and writes. Often simultaneously. She performed in the world premiere of her play ¡VOS! at Two River Theater, which was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference and received the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. ¡VOS! was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and receives its second production in summer 2026 at the Contemporary American Theater Festival.
Recently, she performed in her play Vidas Privadas, inspired by Noël Coward’s Private Lives, at New York Stage and Film. Other plays include Labor (Leah Ryan honorable mention), Joan Dark (Denver Center Summit), Harbor Girls (AMMO and New Georges), and Her Math Play (EST/Sloan grant). She is a 2025-2026 member of Center Theater Group's LA Writers' Workshop and holds commissions with Manhattan Theatre Club/the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Her TV writing includes shows on Disney+ and NBC. Acting on and Off-Broadway and in television and film, Pumariega has cross examined Coach Taylor, made out with the Fly, and set a Cuban pharmacy ablaze in a corset. She earned her M.F.A. from NYU's Graduate Acting Program.
At MacDowell, Pumariega wrote the first draft of her new play Parlay, commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, inspired by her grandfather's experiences as a handicapper for horse racing in 1960's Miami.
