Christina Chan

Actress and Playwright

Christina R. Chan is an actor and playwright. Christina’s work focuses on Asian-American women and immigration issues. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, grants, and artist-in-residencies. She can be seen in corporate videos, commercials, and is the voice for educational CD’s and books on tape. Christina is a 2002 Somerville Artist Fellow, a program of the Somerville Arts Council. She was an artist in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts. Christina is a graduate of Simmons College and Trinity Rep Conservatory, the theater school of Tony award winning Trinity Repertory Theater.

Christina’s first solo piece, Unbinding Our Lives, shatters the exotic, subservient, China doll image. In this powerful one woman show Christina portrays three real Chinese American women from China in the 1800s and their personal stories of being sold into slavery, prostitution, and abandonment in the streets of China.

Bobby Pins Up Your Nose, which is performed with Judy Tso, is a theatrical riff on who is the fairest one of all. This is a real life story about how Asian American women manipulate their bodies to fit into white culture’s idea of beauty.