actor.
writer.
instructor.
PRODUCER.
christina pumariega
acts and writes.
often simultaneously.
Born and raised all over the American south, her father is Cuban, her mother is Italian-American. These perspectives inspire her stories: about women, about immigrants, about marginalized voices drawn whole — flawed, hilarious, and hopeful. Antiheroes filled with possibility — because this is who we are.
Christina just performed in the world premiere of her two-hander play ¡VOS! at Two River Theater in April 2025, directed by Nicole A. Watson and co-starring Alexandra Silber. ¡VOS! was developed at the 2024 Ojai Playwrights Conference, and is a recipient of the 2025 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.
Up next she performs in Vidas Privadas at New York Stage & Film, her new original adaptation of Noël Coward’s Private Lives, where Cuban campaign managers from opposite sides of the political aisle spar their way from Ibiza to Miami.
Other plays include LABOR (Leah Ryan Fund honorable mention), Joan Dark (Colorado New Play Summit), Harbor Girls and Her Math Play (EST/Sloan Grant). An O’Neill NPC finalist for the last four years, Christina’s work has been developed at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, the New Harmony Project, the Lark, New Georges, Hartford Stage Company and Ammunition Theatre Company. She is currently under commission by the Denver Center and Two River Theater, and will attend Hedgebrook in in the fall.
Her television writing credits include “Turner & Hooch” (Disney+) and “Bluff City Law” (NBC).
Acting on and Off-Broadway, regionally, and in television and film, Christina has cross-examined Coach Taylor, made out with the Fly, and set a Cuban pharmacy ablaze in a corset. She has performed at the Public Theater, Barrow Street Theatre, the Lucille Lortel, Soho Rep, and made her Broadway debut in Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, directed by Sam Gold. On-screen credits include Bloodline (Netflix), The Family (ABC), Elementary (CBS), and the animated feature My Love Affair With Marriage (Tribeca Film Festival) alongside Matthew Modine and Dagmara Dominczyk.
Christina is deeply passionate about drawing new stories from others. After years producing the Playground Reading Series from her Brooklyn apartment, she now leads Más Páginas — a writers’ workshop that dares more pages from diverse scribes and also offers screenwriting and playwriting courses online. She’s an Expert Contributor to BackStage Magazine and taught at Yale, NYU-Tisch, the University of Pennsylvania, and Pace with guest lectures at Harvard, FSU, and the Catalyst Story Institute.
Christina holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their very hairy toddler.
ACTOR
ACTING REEL
WRITER
PLAYS
Harbor girls
(4W) Rose Palazzolo has been keeping a secret for 70 years. Her sisters want it. Her children want it. Her granddaughter finds it. Based on true events both past and present, this time-traveling story follows four first-generation Italian American sisters trying to survive in World War II Baltimore Harbor.
Her Math Play
(3W, 1M) JoAnne loves Math like a person. But it's the very language her artist daughter Sam fails to speak. Inspired by the author’s math professor mom, Her Math Play is a laugh-out-loud love letter to mothers, daughters, latent feminism, and Math told in equations and whale song.
Christina is also under commission from Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey.
To request a copy of a play, please contact Beth Blickers at Michael Moore Agency.
TV & FILM
For both television & film inquiries, please contact Brandy Rivers at Amplified Management, or Nathan DeRemer (television) & Halle Mariner (film) at Independent Artist Group.
LABOR
(8W) Nurses Jo, Ngozi, and Amor work their asses off caring for moms and babies in the maternity ward graveyard shift. But over thirty years in a system that undervalues that care, a lot can change. A funny and wild postpartum fever dream told by women laboring in America.
¡VOS!
(2W) After a long battle with infertility, Argentinian-American Annie makes a pilgrimage to her estranged birthplace of Buenos Aires to undergo IVF by the famed Dr. Cossi. But Annie’s medical tourism unearths the secrets of activist Ana and student Sofia, lost to the Dirty War. VOS! is an epic hunt for belonging, motherhood, and the Disappeared, inspired by Las Madres — past, present and hopeful — and told by two Latina actors spinning as fast as they can.
Joan Dark
(3W, 2M) Deacon Joan strives to become a woman priest in the Roman Catholic church, but her new posting in Bridgeport, Connecticut begs answers beyond the spiritual — about the wealth gap in America, healing a country that’s sick, and how we find faith again after we’ve lost it.