A director, actor, and educator, Christine Penney splits her time between NYC and the trees and hills of Vermont. Her diverse arts and education career has proffered all kinds of experiences, from voicing a documentary for Connecticut Public Television (Water Works) to wrapping production on multiple short films, web series, and commercials, including the recent Oxygen Network series The Disappearance of Maura Murray.
Since spending a summer at the Circle in the Square theatre school, she's continued studying with NYC's excellent Ken Schatz. She's also loved playing all kinds of people on camera and onstage (favorites: Maria Rainer in The Sound of Music, Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, and running in the midnight NH woods for ...Maura Murray). Roles out of the limelight that also set her natural bundle of enthusiastic energy ablaze include directing (especially at Mountain Lakes!), teaching (English, drama, music, or even funny faces), writing, and playing the piano.
Since spending a summer at the Circle in the Square theatre school, she's continued studying with NYC's excellent Ken Schatz. She's also loved playing all kinds of people on camera and onstage (favorites: Maria Rainer in The Sound of Music, Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, and running in the midnight NH woods for ...Maura Murray). Roles out of the limelight that also set her natural bundle of enthusiastic energy ablaze include directing (especially at Mountain Lakes!), teaching (English, drama, music, or even funny faces), writing, and playing the piano.
"If you simply try to tell the truth...
you will...become original
without ever having noticed it."
- C.S. Lewis
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Christine believes in the power of a well-told story to change lives for the better, having been greatly influenced by the mastery and effectiveness of allegory through C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia as a child. As a result, storytelling is her heart's desire - and she believes that everybody has a story worth sharing. Seeing others grow from her work gives her utmost fulfillment. Whether emoting onstage, coaching teen-aged actors, teaching in a classroom, or playing the piano at church services, her dreams of helping others through self expression are actively fulfilled thanks to those who glean something from her work.
Miss Penney actively appreciates the work of C.S. Lewis, but likewise loves climbing trees, mountains, and rocks; watching children genuinely marvel at the mundane things of adult life; imparting her excessive energy and child-like excitement to others of similar thrill interest; reveling in others' honest musicality; and trying to find some of her own while pounding the piano keys herself. |
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories
