Christopher Czajka Papers

Christopher Czajka received his undergraduate degree in theatre from Northwestern University and his M.F.A. in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University (ASU) in 1997. While at ASU, he wrote a play titled The Cottingley Caper that received a staged reading. This play was further developed at the New York University New Plays for Young Audiences play reading series in June 1999. It was also a semi-finalist at the Bonderman Playwriting for Youth National Symposium in Indianapolis. His one act play, Its Not Funny, Its My Life, was featured in the Arizona Theatre Company's Genesis Project.

After graduation Czajka worked for several years as the Associate Director of Education at the New Victory Theatre in New York City. Following this he went to work for PBS, where he served as: the Educational Consultant for the television series Texas Ranch House and for Thirteen/WNETs hands-on history series Colonial House and Frontier House, also serving as Historical Consultant for the latter. He is the Senior Director of the LAB@Thirteen, which creates, supervises and executes community and educational outreach initiatives for Thirteen/WNETs broadcast and online productions. He has also developed web-based resources for the PBS series African-American Lives, Broadway: The American Musical, and Slavery and the Making of America.