Christianna Nelson is a New York City based actor and graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where she was awarded the Hershel Williams Prize for outstanding acting ability.

Christianna has performed in numerous plays and devised works in New York City, regionally and internationally. She played Shakespeare's daughter in the Off-Broadway premiere of The Last Will by Robert Brustein, directed by and starring Austin Pendleton. The production also traveled to the inaugural Wuzhen Theatre Festival in China in 2013. She worked with Clove Galilee, Jenny Rogers and the late Ruth Maleczech on her last piece, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.  The play, a joint production of Mabou Mines and Tricksaddle starring Marylouise Burke, premiered at LaMaMa in the Ellen Stewart Theatre in January 2016. Christianna also collaborated with Tricksaddle on Wickets, a devised piece based on Fefu and her Friends, set on an airplane in the 1970’s.

She performed in the regional premiere of Red Velvet at Shakespeare & Company, opposite John Douglas Thompson. She played the role of Jess in the Woodward/Newman award-winning play, Ugly Lies the Bone by Lindsey Ferrentino at Bloomington Playwrights Project. She will revisit the role in the New England premiere at Shakespeare & Company in the summer of 2016. She is passionate about developing new work and has performed in many new play workshops at New Dramatists, The Lark, Rattlestick, MCC, Long Wharf, Cherry Lane, Intar, and Premiere Stages, among others. She also enjoys performing in classical work, particularly Shakespeare. She has performed in several independent short films, and and on television in WWYD and all of the soaps. She did her undergraduate work at Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is a proud member of Tricksaddle Theater Company.