Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American writer, director, artist, filmmaker, and theatre-maker whose work spans experimental, journalistic, academic, and commercial fields. In June 2023, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of the Top 50 Most Fascinating People in Brooklyn. She was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and previously developed videos and other educational materials for the Art Deco Society of New York. Her award-winning drama "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" will open at The Tank in September.
She founded Quail Bell Press & Productions, known for Quail Tales sketch comedy, the Badass Lady-Folk podcast, Quail Bell Magazine, and more. The author of fiction, poetry, art, and history books, Stoddard has contributed to The Huffington Post, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Native Peoples, Yes! Magazine, and other publications. Her book Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia was the topic of her 2021 keynote talks at Old Dominion University and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. Her arthouse feature Sirena's Gallery is distributed by Summer Hill Entertainment and her short Bottled is streamable on Amazon Prime. Her music video "De Colores (Chorus of Melancholy)" won Best Experimental Project at the 2023 Latino Film Market.
Born to a Salvadoran mother and American father, Stoddard graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an MFA in interdisciplinary art from The City College of New York. Her CCNY thesis related to her personal, racial, and cultural identity as shaped by El Salvador’s civil war. This includes research on the Indigenous genocide that precipitated the war and her maternal ancestry from the Mayan Pipil tribe.