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Hello friends.

My name is Christine (she/her), and I’m a theatre person living on the stolen, unsurrendered territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people.  My dad was Mexican-American, born in El Paso Texas, and my mom is a Dutch-British settler born in Edmonton, Alberta. I was born on Tongva land (Los Angeles), and I grew up in East Van seeing every show I could at The Cultch and the Vancouver Playhouse – I am now grateful to be employed acting, writing, and otherwise making theatre things happen on stages and spaces in my neighbourhood and across Canada.  I’m inspired by artists and stories that look at our most uncomfortable contradictions through a lens of compassion, humour, and beauty.  My plays explore memory, relationships, grief, and love.  I have a special interest in capturing the vitality and complicated realities of my East Van neighborhood, Commercial Drive. I’m also busily engaged with many incredible change-makers in our community who are working to shift the balance of power in the Canadian scene – advocacy and community engagement is inseparable from my art practice.

This winter, I am the Miriam Bennet Artist in Residence at the Arts Club Theatre Company. I am also thrilled to be headed to Montreal in February for the National Theatre School’s Artistic Leadership Residency. I’m currently working on a commission for the Manhattan Theatre Club, and developing a new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. (And for the holiday season, I am on standby as an emergency understudy for the East Van Panto!)