Christine Marie Brown

About Christine Marie

Christine Marie Brown made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning production of William Shakespeare's Henry IV. She has appeared Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and NYC Fringe Festival. Nationally, her work includes leading roles at The Guthrie, Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Baltimore Centerstage, Shakespeare & Company, Buffalo Studio Arena, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, American Shakespeare Center, and Kansas City Rep. While in Seattle, she worked at Seattle Rep, Seattle Shakespeare, Village Theatre, Book-It Rep, Taproot Theatre, 14/48 Projects, and is a CORE Company Member at ACT. In Michigan, she has performed with the Interlochen Shakespeare Festival and Parallel 45.

Brown recently taught for the NYC DOE as part of their continuing education for over 50 public school theatre teachers in the area. She has also taught at Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle University, MoPop Museum, Jack Straw Productions, and the Seattle World School. She was a faculty member at Freehold Theatre Lab for seven years where she taught many classes, including for their Ensemble Training Intensive. Through Freehold’s Engaged Theatre Program, she performed in a prison tour for four summers with several of Shakespeare’s plays. In his canon, she has taken on the roles of Juliet, Rosalind, Hermione, Viola, Lysander, Desdemona, Hermia, Hotspur, and Autolycus, among others.

Directing credits include: Kate Hamill's Dracula, You On The Moors Now, The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes, Anon(ymous), The Children’s Hour, The Nebraska Dispatches, Infinite Black Suitcase, Fahrenheit 451: A Radio Play, and a reading of Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus with P45.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the Old Globe Theatre and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Maryland, where she was a CAPA Performing Arts Scholar. She is a member of both AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

I strive to create an environment of welcome to students of all backgrounds and experience levels. Acting is a craft that can be learned through dedication and tenacity. I seek to provide enough challenge to engage and enough encouragement to inspire. As I teach, I deeply value the opportunity to not only share my expertise, but to learn from my students as well.