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Christina Martin-Wright holds an
undergraduate degree in Acting from Northern Michigan University and a Master
of Fine Arts in Directing and Dramaturgy from the Chicago College of the Performing
Arts (at Roosevelt University).
Since making her home in Madison Christina has focused on
directing and teaching youth, working with several arts organizations
including CTM Madison Family Theatre Company and MadCAP.
Christina's performance credits
have taken her from the U.P. to The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, down
through the southern states, and back to the Midwest. Most recently she was seen in the
musical Three Postcards in Rockford, Illinois.
Christina appeared as Mrs. Pascal in The
House of Yes with Chicago's Wing & Groove Theatre Company, a professional company
with which she remains an ensemble member. It was with Wing &
Groove that she directed Alabama Rain, a production for which theatre critic
Mary Shen Barnidge (Windy City Times) listed her as one of the Top Ten
Directors of 1999.
While in Chicago, Christina assistant directed an
original performance piece at the Steppenwolf Theatre, which featured
John Mahoney and after which she drank sangria with the playwright, Kurt
Vonnegut at the cast party! Christina's other directing credits
include Philadelphia, Here I Come, Wanda's
Visit, Autumn Comes Early, Scrooge!, and Plague of
Innocence, a production that raised funds and awareness for Broadway Fights
AIDS/Equity Cares and local AIDS organizations.
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