Prior to relocating back to her home state of Michigan, Christina was a San Francisco based actor for 12 years. She has professionally acted at such theatres as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The American Shakespeare Collective (TASC), San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Carmel Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare at Stinson, Center Repertory Company, and BoarsHead Theatre; she also enjoyed a 6 month stint in Taiwan as a stunt performer. 

Some of Shakespeare’s famous ladies that she has been fortunate enough to portray include Juliet, Ophelia, Desdemona, Hermia, Beatrice, Adriana, Bianca, Lavinia, Silvia, Phebe, Jessica, and Mistress Ford. A few other favorite roles have been Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Louka in Arms and the Man, Ismene in Antigone, Leontine in The Triumph of Love, Prospera in The Tempest, and Cinderella.

Additional teaching and professional fight directing venues include the American Conservatory Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, The American Shakespeare Collective (TASC), Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Purple Rose Theatre Company, BoarsHead Theatre, Stormfield Theatre, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of San Diego, University of California-Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Hillsdale College and Adrian College. She has also taught stage combat courses at numerous national conferences, as well as venues internationally in Canada, England, Italy, Ireland, Prague and South Africa.

Christina is also a freelance audiobook narrator, having recorded nearly 300 titles for such companies as Brilliance Audio (Amazon), Common Mode (Harlequin Audio and Harper Collins), Tantor Media, Lyric Audiobooks, John Marshall Media (Harper Collins ), Podium Publishing (Audible), Macmillan Publishers (Audible), BeeAudio, Ltd (Harper Collins), Dreamscape Media (HarperCollins), and Talking Book (Coffee House Press).

She holds an MFA in Acting from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and a BFA in Performance (Acting) from the University of Michigan. She is a Certified Teacher, Fight Director, and only the second female to be granted the title of Fight Master with the SAFD (Society of American Fight Directors). She is also a member of AEA (Actor’s Equity Association), SAG (Screen Actors Guild), AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), and VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association).