Beatrix Christian graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1991, and her first play, "Spumante Romantica", was produced the next year by the Griffin Theatre in Sydney.
[1] Her 1994 play, Blue Murder performed at both Belvoir St Theatre and Eureka!
She was also nominated for both an Australian Writers Guild and NSW Premiere's Literary Award for her 1997 play, The Governor’s Family.
The following year she won the Australian National Playwright's Conference New Dramatists’ Award.
Christian wrote the screenplay for the 2006 Ray Lawrence film Jindabyne, which she adapted from the short story, "So Much Water So Close to Home", by Raymond Carver.