Christina Harley

Christina is a proud Bruin and a graduate of UCLA's Theater Arts program. She was very active in the African Student Union at UCLA where she co-wrote and co-produced, and performed in the program "Ebony Suite: A Tribute To Black Music and Dance." After graduation, Christina began writing and performing with a sketch comedy group called "Black Women In Comedy" which performed at the Tsunami Theater in Los Feliz California. "Black Women In Comedy" is an ensemble that explored African-American women's issues in the format of sketch comedy. Soon after her work with BWIC, Christina wrote and performed in her first full-length play, The Dreamers which is a drama centering around a poor southern African-American family and begins with the household hearing the news of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination on the television. The Dreamers was selected by the Fountain Theater to be performed in their program "No Ordinary Flowers-A Festival Of Readings" celebrating works written by African-Am