Christine was born in Brooklyn New York mainly raised in northeast Ohio but spent many a holiday and summer back on the east coast where she fondly remembers entertaining neighbors on the stoop in Brooklyn singing and dancing for an audience of women who leaned out of windows In 2017 she discovered unbeknownst to her but suspected by many her lower east side Italian heritage and the requisite loads of relatives that come with such a discovery In 2021 she finally and happily landed back in NYC after two fruitful decades of theatre making and teaching and raising her son in Cleveland The third time has been the charm While in NYC as a younger woman she studied comparative literature and writing at Columbia Universitys School of General Studies while working at ABC Radio Network News After a whirlwind solo backpacking adventure across Europe it was time time for graduate school so she mustered the courage to pursue a dream shed put on hold for too long to study acting She received her MFA from Kent State University She is also published author and a US Presidential Scholar Teacher who has won grants including a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study Shakespeare at The Globe Theatre in London The Juilliard School and The National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare Christine is also an awardwinning theatre director and former artistic director She is an alum of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab Directors Lab West Directors Lab North and Cleveland Play House Directors Gym She has continued her acting training with Shakespeare Company Dream Lab Studio James Ciccone and Anthony Grasso She has taught at The Film and Media Arts School at Cleveland State University and Baldwin Wallace University Department of Theatre Dance Shes an acting coach in private practice She has completed one screenplay and is writing a second She is a member of SAGAFTRA AEA SDC the Society of Stage Directors Choreographers
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