Christopher Hibma

Christopher joined the Sundance Institute Theatre Program in the fall of 2005 and currently serves as its associate director. Christopher produces Theatre Labs in Florida, Wyoming, and Utah and has created two new Labs in 2010 at MASS MoCA and on Governors Island in New York Harbor. His work has supported individual writers such as Annie Baker, Tracey Scott Wilson, Taylor Mac, and David Adjmi as well as the creative teams of Spring Awakening, Passing Strange, and Grey Gardens. He produces Sundance Institute East Africa, a multiyear program that supports theatre artists of Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. In 2010, he will produce a pilot Theatre Lab for East African theatre artists on the island of Manda off the Kenyan coast. He successfully negotiated Sundance Institute's first Actors’ Equity contract, administers its commissioning program as well as Sundance Institute Pre- and Post-Lab Support programs. Prior to Sundance Institute, he served as the first managing director for Theater Latté Da, a Minneapolis-based theatre company. He also served as general manager for the Minnesota Boychoir, a 50+ year tradition in the Twin Cities. He has produced a variety of events for other organizations such as the Minnesota Chorale and Youth Frontiers, Inc, a nonprofit organization that teaches character education in schools. He has been on the directing staffs for Broadway’s The Lion King and numerous productions at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. At the Virginia Opera, Christopher assisted Lillian Groag on Wagner’s Die Walküre. He has also worked as a graphic designer for Marinan Design, a boutique design firm in the Twin Cities. Recently, Christopher created video projections for Maureen McGovern’s A Long and Winding Road at the Metropolitan Room in New York, for Carol Burnett: In Conversation and for Matt Gould’s Free Style, both at UCLA’s Reprise! in Los Angeles. He lives with his partner Harrison Thompson in New York.