Christine McBurney is a multihyphenate. Acting credits include the films THE ALTO KNIGHTS (dir. Barry Levinson) and TUTTO (writer/producer) and her sold out solo show, DNA Doesn’t Lie But My Mother Did!; TV: Nocturne (Apple TV), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), Fleishman is in Trouble (Hulu); Selected Stage: The Metropolitan Opera, Cleveland Play House, Cleveland Public Theatre. Christine was a 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), the NYSCA/NYFA funded opera, Moon in the Mirror, Arcadia, Boston Marriage, lots of Shakespeare, and the world premiere of Fanny Burney’s The Woman Hater. Her remount of Cathleen O’Malley’s Milkdrunk goes to the Edinburgh Fringe in August ‘26. She wrote, produced and starred in the upcoming short film, TUTTO (everything). Honors: 2024 finalist for the inaugural Tina Packer Women of Will Directing Fellowship at Shakespeare & Co., 2017 Cleveland Critics' Circle Superior Achievement Award for both Mamaí and her production of A Doll's House, National Endowment for the Humanities recipient and other grants to study Shakespeare at The Juilliard School, Shakespeare & Company, and The Globe Theatre in London. She was an adjunct instructor at Baldwin Wallace University’s Department of Theatre & Dance, Cleveland State University's School of Film and Media, and Dept. Chair of Shaker Heights High School’s Theatre Arts Department. She is the Executive Director of Bluestocking Productions, LLC, a teaching artist for Hudson Valley Shakespeare, and a private acting coach. Member: Stage Directors & Choreographers Observership Class 2019-21, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Directors Lab West, Directors Lab North, SDC, SAG-AFTRA, AEA & WIFTOH & NYWIFT. BA Columbia University, MFA Kent State University. www.christinemcburney.com.