Chris Cragin Day entered her graduate student career at Baylor focused on her artistic work as a director, but exited with new found commitment to playwriting. Since graduating with her MFA in 2005, Chris has made a name for herself as a New York playwright and great things seem to be in her future!

Chris is a proud alumni of the 2008 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, where her play, The River Nun, was presented in the 2009 Spotlight Series.

Her new musical Son of a Gun, (music and lyrics by Don Chaffer and Lori Chaffer), was accepted as one of four new musicals in the 2011 Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference and was also recently given a concert reading at Joe's Pub.

New York productions include Emily, An Amethyst Remembrance by Firebone Theater (winner of NYIT Outstanding Female Actor in a Lead Role award for leading actress Elizabeth Davis), Deadheading Roses by Firebone Theatre, Love & Money (excerpt), and Milking Success, at the Nyorican Poets Café, and Dig at Horse Trade Theater.

Other playwriting awards include: Yale Music Theater Institute Finalist, Actor’s Theatre Louisville 10-minute play contest semi-finalist, Riva Shriver Comedy Award Finalist, Primary Stages Semi-Finalist, Inter-Act Play Commission Finalist. Chris works as a screenwriter and story supervisor for Motion Capture NYC.

Chris's thesis project at Baylor was The Clearing by Helen Edmundson.