C. J. Linton

C. J. Linton is a DC-based writer, editor, game designer, artist, and dramaturg. His work explores transformation, micro-sociologies, and making difficult choices in impossible circumstances. 

C. J. is a co-founder of the independent tabletop game design company Sly Robot Games with Dominique Dickey. Sly Robot Games has created Tomorrow on Revelation III, Plant Girl Game, and The Prince of Nothing Good (forthcoming). His other games include Those of Us Who Know Better and Bring Down the House. Credits on other work include editing TRIAL and The Devil’s Dandy Dogs and contributing to Jukebox: The Karaoke Musical TTRPG.

C. J. was the Dramaturgy and Literary Management Apprentice with the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2020, and has worked for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Center Theatre Group, Studio Theatre, and Olney Theatre Center. He received an Arts Innovation Grant from Johns Hopkins University to produce a new play at the 2018 Charm City Fringe Festival. He is currently at 2023-2024 Atlas Arts Lab Fellow, where he is working with Mekala Sridhar to devise a contemporary adaption of As You Like It that explores Rosalind/Ganymede’s relationship with gender. As a dramaturg, he especially enjoys working with playwrights in the early development stages—getting a play from early drafts to a workshop or rehearsal room—and on plays that are speculative, fantastical, and/or live in the interstice of theatre and game.

He is also collaborator with Amethyst Alchemist, working on sustainable bookbinding, needlework, and papermaking. His artist’s book “beyond stabil(e)ity” was in Existence as Protest: The Art of Trans, Queer, and Gender Expansive Experience at Rhizome DC. You can read more about the exhibit in this article from Bmore Art.

You can read his essay about transformers as trans fantasy in Uncanny Magazine.

C. J. is passionate about spreadsheets, tenants’ rights, and writing elaborate murder mystery LARPs for his friends. You can find him on Twitter, Instagram, and itch.io @NearFutures and on Tumblr at cjlinton.tumblr.com. He is available for editing and dramaturgy work, and you can get in contact at charliejlinton (at) gmail (dot) com.