Christa Bell is an award-winning feminist theater and performance artist, spoken word poet, and social activist from Seattle, Washington.

She is a former National Poetry Slam Champion, her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and commissioned by Richard Hugo House as well as the Central District Forum For Arts And Ideas (CD Forum), a National Performance Network (NPN) partner. Christa’s work has been featured on National Public Radio and she has performed, by invitation, at over 200 universities, theaters, festivals and performance venues internationally, including Wellesley, Barnard, Bard, The West Coast Poetry Festival (BC), Theater Rozen (Amsterdam), The Nuyorican Poetry Café, The Bowery and Bar 13.

Christa is currently in her second year of touring the one-woman phenomenon, CoochieMagik: A Spoken Word Musical Comedy, commissioned by NPN partner, CD Forum.  CoochieMagik, is a biographical performance ritual that tells the hilarious and empowering story of her journey to God through sex.

In addition to her performance work, Christa teaches a variety of workshops through the lens of her Artist Motto: “Creating a world in the image of myself.”  She has been called by her students, a “creativity doula” and this playful description speaks to her commitment to nurturing the birth of new ideas, new creations, and new ways of being through compassionate and critical questioning of old paradigms, both personal and social.

Her current workshop offerings include:

SHEism: The Woman Worship Way (Recommended workshop supplement for CoochieMagik: A Spoken Word Musical Comedy.)

Healing Is A Political Act (HIAPA): Creative Recovery for Human Beings

Collage-gasm: When Art Meets Orgasm (A workshop for women, offered only in Seattle.)

The Artist As Activist: A Writing and Performance Workshop With An Activist Agenda