On 30 March 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the awe-inspiring, award-winning composer and performer Heather Christian, who was most recently recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship.
Heather Christian is a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, Drama Desk and two-time Obie Award winning composer and performer making music centered shows and rituals. She is a 2021 Richard Rodgers Award winner, 2022 Stephen Schwartz Outstanding New Composer awardee and Sundance Institute Time Warner Fellow. Recent composing and performing credits include her own work Oratorio for Living Things (Signature Center NYC 2025, Ars Nova 2022), Terce: A Practical Breviary (HERE Arts Center and Prototype) Animal Wisdom ( The Bushwick Starr, now a motion picture) I am Sending You the Sacred Face (Theater In Quarantine/ YouTube— Vultures Top Theater Experience of 2020), Prime: A Practical Breviary (Playwrights Horizons Soundstage—IndieWire’s #1 Podcast Episode of 2020) in addition to being a lead artist on devised works Mission Drift Nat’l Theater London, The World Is Round BAM). She has released 13 records, owns and operates her own recording studio in Beacon, NY, and can be seen regularly in concert halls and dive bars as Heather Christian & the Arbornauts.
