Christine Vartoughian is an award-winning, Armenian-American writer and director whose work has shown at festivals, the Museum of the Moving Image, and Lincoln Center. Her feature film about love and suicide, Living with the Dead: A Love Story, has been awarded the Audience Choice Award at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Aberdeen Film Festival, and is available on Apple TV and Amazon, in the U.S. and internationally. Her screenplay, The Great Perhaps, is an adaptation of the Joe Meno novel, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice.
She received a BFA in Drama from SUNY Purchase College, as well as the Wadsworth Directing Award for her production of Maria Irene Fornes’ The Conduct of Life. She holds an MFA in Film and Television from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), where she was a Presidential Fellow. Christine is a member of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Film Fatales, The Book Fairies, and SAG-AFTRA.
Christine founded (Screen)Play Press, a publishing company for yet-to-be-produced film scripts. Her feature script, Young Monsters, was published in 2022 and her short fiction has been published in The Bookends Review, Quibble Lit, 805 Lit + Art, Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters, Audience Askew, and Rock Salt Journal. Her debut collection of short stories, The Only Way Out Is Through the Window, will be published in Spring 2025. Her latest screenplay, A Mostly Human Girl, was a semi-finalist for the 2024 Stowe Short Film Production Grant.
Christine lives and dreams in New York City.