BIO

Christine has been performing and making puppets and costumes since discovering her love of puppetry at Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles. Hand puppets were next, followed by cable, animatronic and hydraulic puppets for movies, television, videos and commercials.  She had the good fortune to work on a Roger Corman film, puppeteering a giant cockroach creature with buckets of blood and slime. After that she spent years at various creature effects companies in Los Angeles, puppeteering everything from aliens, a bull, a gorilla, a couple lusty sex scenes with marionettes, a martian, penguins, a pink teddy bear and more.

She directed a short marionette film, "Amaterasu", based on a Japanese folk tale, with support from Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams, made with found object marionettes and sets. She has created artwork, including two marionette shows made of found objects, assemblage and collage art. Christine is a past president of the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry, produces live shows in LA and regularly contributes to local and national puppet publications.

She recently moderated a panel of puppeteers from Pee-wee’s Playhouse at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, GA.