Deanna joined ESPtheatre as part of the Crew in early 2019 supporting A Midsummer Night's Dream. A year and a half later, she was Director of  our Teen programs (directing all our teen productions.)

She began Assistant Directing numerous productions in late 2022. In 2023 she not only Co-directed our spring production of The Awakening, she became Associate Artistic Director of the company.

Director, producer, and actor, Christine was the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of NYC’s “Woman Seeking... a theatre company” (with the mission of breaking stereotyping of women in casting) for over 15 years where she won an OOBR Award for her direction and garnered rave reviews in The Village Voice and The New York Times.

She was a founding member of the Lucille Lortel award-winning Off-Broadway theatre “Peccadillo Theatre Company.” She performed at LaMaMa (with Arthur French & Barbara Montgomery) at BAM!, Westside Theatre, and Center Stage NY.

Regionally, she took Book-It Repertory Theatre through a $2.5M capacity campaign in 2018 and performed at ACT Theatre, the Phoenix Theatre, and Theatre 9/12, among others. She is a member of Actors Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA.

She formed the Endangered Species theatre Project in 2018 and co-founded the Frederick Shakespeare Festival with Aaron Angello.