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Christine Marie Brown

 Christine Marie Brown
Instructor of Theatre Arts
Old Globe Theatre
Master of Fine Arts, Acting
University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelor of Arts, Theatre

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, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, American Shakespeare Center, and Kansas City Rep. While in Seattle, she appeared at Seattle Rep, Seattle Shakespeare, Village Theatre, Book-It Rep, Taproot Theatre, 14/48 Projects, and was 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. 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: Lost Girl, Corners Grove, 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.

 

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I strive to create an environment of welcome and joy 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.

  • Member, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)
  • Member, Actors' Equity Association (AEA)
  • Nominee, Gregory Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Mona in Oslo by J.T. Rogers at ACT Theatre (Seattle 2018)
  • CORE Company Member, A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), Seattle

B.A., Theatre - University of Maryland
M.F.A., Acting - Old Globe Theatre, University of San Diego