Short story “Dianita’s Spiderweb” is selected as a 2024 Anthony Veasna So Scholarship winner at The Adroit Journal.
San Francisco Chronicle reviews performance of "The School for Girls Who Lost Everything in the Fire"
Joshua Kosman writes about our excerpted opera at West Edge Opera’s Snapshot series:
“As in their previous collaboration, Fríes and Suleiman boast a shared theatrical approach — expressive, insinuating, full of enigmatic fervor — that draws a listener immediately under their spell. I can’t wait to hear the completed opera.”
Read full review HERE.
Selected as Finalist in West Edge Opera's Aperture program
My libretto for an opera has been selected as part of West Edge Opera’s new opera development program, Aperture. My collaborator and I are part of the 3-month online residency for the development of our opera and a chance to win a $60,000 commission and live performance of our work.
Stunning review of "Moon, Bride, Dogs" appears in San Francisco Chronicle
Check out this kind review of my opera in the West Edge Opera Snapshot 2020 series by Joshua Kosman by clicking HERE
“If “Moon, Bride, Dogs” emerged from the performance in San Francisco’s Taube Atrium Theater as the most richly satisfying experience on offer, that’s in part because its aesthetic is at once so strange and so accessible.”
Opera chosen by West Edge Opera to be performed in San Francisco and Berkeley in 2020 →
“Moon, Bride, Dogs” will see its third opera performance this coming winter as one of four contemporary operas selected to be included in the Snapshot 2020 series. Dates: January 31 and February 1. Tickets: $40.
Recipient of the 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop Scholarship
Cristina is one of 23 Scholars for the 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop. She attended the weeklong novel workshop led by Claire Vaye Watkins.
Winner of Fulbright Creative Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing
Cristina has won a Fulbright Open Study award in creative writing to pursue her writing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for 9 months, beginning in February 2020.
NANOworks Opera to Produce "Moon, Bride, Dogs: II" in May 2019 in Atlanta
“Moon, Bride, Dogs” was selected to be produced by Atlanta’s NANOworks Opera team, which “develops and stages short contemporary operas by emerging North American composers and dedicates itself to raising the spotlight on young composers and librettists to give them a stepping stone to national attention.”
Composer: Ryan Suleiman
Librettist: Cristina Fries
Catapult Interview: A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 Author Cristina Fríes →
Winner of the 2018 Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowship
Cristina was chosen as one of the winners of the 2018 Magrit Mondavi Graduate fellowship, which is intended to support the work of promising students to in helping them achieve degree-related goals.
Premiere of "Moon, Bride, Dogs," an opera-song →
May 10, 2018: Premiere of "Moon, Bride, Dogs," an opera/art-song with the libretto and story written by Cristina Fries, and created in collaboration with Ryan Suleiman, who composed the score. Their performance, along with those of five other collaborative teams, will take place at noon at the Pitzer Center, UC Davis. Performers will be members of the Brooklyn Art Song Society. A video of the full performance will be streamed live on YouTube.
Winner of PEN America Award →
February 20, 2018
