Christine McBurney

Christine McBurney is a proud multi-hyphenate who in her mid-50s and in the middle of the pandemic, broke free of the golden handcuffs of education to pursue her love of storytelling. Acting Credits - Film: THE ALTO KNIGHTS (Barry Levinson, director), KINDA PREGNANT. TV: Lazarus, FBI: Most Wanted, Fleishman is in Trouble. Selected Stage: The Metropolitan Opera, Cleveland Play House. She was co-founding, producing co-artistic director of Cleveland's critically-acclaimed classical theatre, Mamaí Theatre Company. Selected Directing credits include: the short film FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD (staring Catherine Curtin), a NYSCA/NYFA-funded production of the operatic monodrama, Moon in the Mirror, Greenhouse Ensemble’s 10-Minute Play Soiree, Play Ground-NY; dozens of plays and musicals regionally. Awards and Honors include a 2024 finalist for the inaugural Tina Packer Women of Will Directing Fellowship at Shakespeare & Co, A 2017 Cleveland Critics' Circle Superior Achievement Award for both Mamaí and her production of A Doll's House, National Endowment for the Humanities and other grants to study Shakespeare at The Juilliard School, Shakespeare & Company, and The Globe Theatre in London. She has taught at Baldwin Wallace University’s Department of Theatre & Dance, Cleveland State University's School of Film and Media, and Shaker Heights High School’s Theatre Arts program. Currently she is a teaching artist for Hudson Valley Shakespeare and a private acting coach. Christine is writing a solo show about the surprising results of her DNA quest. Member: Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), SDC Observership Class 2019-21, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Directors Lab West, Directors Lab North, SAG-AFTRA, AEA. BA Columbia University, MFA Kent State University. www.christinemcburney.com.