Christian Parker is the Associate Artistic Director of the Atlantic Theater Company. Christian has produced, directed or dramaturged over seventy premieres of new American and British plays on, off and off-off Broadway. He is currently developing a new musical work about the Romanovs with Kate Moira Ryan and Adam Guettel, and has begun a residency at the Joyce Theatre with the choreographer Andrea Miller/Gallim Dance. Prior to his tenure at Atlantic, he was the Literary Manager at Manhattan Theatre Club for several seasons. He has worked as well with Sundance Theatre Labs, The Lark Play Development Center, Bread Loaf, and at Perry-Mansfield developing new plays. His is currently the head of the MFA program in Dramaturgy at Columbia University, and will be Chair of the Theatre Program as of the fall of 2012. He holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA from Columbia.