Recent Productions

August 8 & 15 2009
Christina played Gertie Cummings in the Rogers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! put on at the historic Waterside Theatre. The production was part of The Lost Colony's Joe Layton broadway series, which gives the company members additional professional theatre experience while at The Lost Colony.


"Can I come too, Curly, jist love to watch the way you handle horses"	"I'd like to teach you all a little sayin'"

"That's him!"	"Gertie, you ever hear of an Oklahoma hello?"

May - August 2009
Christina was excited to be part of the cast of the 72nd season of The Lost Colony this summer as Margery Harvie and a Pavanne dancer. The company is part of the Roanoke Island Historical Association and the show has become the second longest running outdoor drama in the country. The Lost Colony explores the story of the first English colony in America and the mystery surrounding their disappearance, and has been running annually since 1933 with a break in production only for WWII.


Pavanne dancer in the Queen's Garden	Listening to Sir Walter Raleigh's speech in Plymouth

Colonists repair the fishnet	During the colonists' second winter Margery Harvie loses her baby

March 2009
Christina, once again, joined Gamut Classic Theatre this spring; this time as Myrrhine and Peace in their production of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata." This bawdy comedy reveals what happens when the women of ancient Greece discover that they can assert some political power of their own, by going on a sex strike until their husbands agree to stop waring with each other.
The production opened up many talk back discussions about such things as women's liberation, the role of sex in America, and modern anti-war movements.


"What healthy red blood; how well it flows"	"Don't worry; I've got this"

"You're sure you'll vote for peace"	Negotiating for Peace

**Gamut photographer: Bri Dow**

November 2008

This fall Christina played a variety of roles including Portia, Pindarus, and Clitus in Gamut Classic Theatre's production of "Julius Caesar." Gamut choose to stage the play, which has over forty named characters, with just sixteen actors in a number of masks. The production received excellent reviews in local Pennsylvania papers and Christina looks forward to additional acting opportunities with the company.


Think you I can bear that (wound) and not my husband's secrets	In our production Portia's ghost, as well as Caesar's, visited Brutus in his tent

Pindarus assisting Cassius in his suicide	The production co-incided with the 2008 election and so Gamut advertised with Caesar and Brutus political signs. These are in front of the Harrisburg, PA capitol building

**Gamut photographer: Bri Dow**

January - April 2008

Christina joined National Theatre for Arts and Education for a second tour this spring as Madame Jourdain in Molière's "The Middle Class Gentleman." The play was presented in both French and English for foreign language students all over the country.


Forgive me; I did not remember that you are young	I have arranged for my wife to dine with her sister

Give me no more replies! My daughter shall be a marquise and if you put me into a rage I'll make her a duchess	Ah ciel! Qu'est ce que c'est que tu cela? Une masquerade? Parlez! Qui vous a arrange de la sort?

How now? What's this? They say you want to give your daughter in marriage to a Mardis-Gras Mummer	Well, what?

September - December 2007

Christina was incredibly excited to tour for the first time with National Theatre for Arts and Education. She joined National's fall season in their production of "The Story of Anna Frank," playing the part of Edith Frank. The tour traveled throughout the United States presenting the inspiring story of the Frank family based on the book, "Anne Frank Remembered" by Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold.

Lighting the Hanukkah candles while in hiding

August 12 – August 19, 2006

Christina's final production of the 2006 Peterborough Players season saw her as the crass Mrs. Medlock in Thomas Olsen's adaptation of The Secret Garden. This production dazzled audiences with the way that scenery "magically" shifted of its own accord and the realization that one garden's rebirth could heal so many broken hearts.


"Mister Craven doesn't want to see her"	"Mind you, I don't want to hear another -"

"You have my permission to go!"	"Mrs. Medlock?!"

August 9 – August 20, 2006

The Peterborough Players' main stage once again saw Christina among it's ranks; this time as Emilia in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale directed by Jana Tift (Thespie and NH Theatre Award winner). The piece focused on the classic themes of redemption, forgiveness, and time's ability to heal. The production delivered incredible sets by Tina Newhauser and original music by Ellen Mandel. Christina was also thrilled to contribute to the production as both assistant choreographer and dance captain.


"I shall whisper so yond crickets shall not hear"	"The task becomes a woman best"

"And you dear sir"	"What beauty's lost; What power's reigned; What tempest tossed; What joy's regained"

July 26 – August 6, 2006

Christina joined the main stage at The Peterborough Players for their third show of the season, Hobson's Choice. The title of this charming comedy is a colloquial English phrase for "no choice at all," and small town boot maker Henry Horatio Hobson soon learns the meaning of this phrase when his three "uppish" daughters turn the tables on their overbearing father. Set in Salford, England in the late 1800's the piece addresses the sexual revolution that followed the Victorian era with its use of strong female characters who are willing to put their old fashioned father in his place.


"A barkeeper?!"	"Protest, but kiss"

"I thought that speech never came natural from Will"	"We're not against you father. We want to stay and see that Will does fairly by you"

May 4 – May 7, 2006

Christina completed her final semester at the Hartt School as Constance in William Shakespeare's King John. The show was under the direction of Malcolm Morrison, dean of The Hartt School and co-founder of The North Carolina School of the Arts. The school became interested in mounting a production of King John when the dean learned that it was one of the few of Shakespeare's works that the university's president, Walter Harrison, had never seen.


"All punished in the person of this child and all for her; a plague upon her!"	"Who summons us hither to the walls?"

"O if thou teach me to believe this sorrow, teach thou this sorrow how to make me die"	"Of nature's gifts thou mayest with lillies boast, and with the half blown rose"