Director
“...emotionally astute...gripping...stellar...inventive...stalwart direction...”
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A Doll's House
Mamaí Theatre Company
Playhouse Square, 2017
Photos: Bob Perkoski
Up Next...
Off-Broadway
Persuasion, Assistant Director, Bedlam, NYC (Cancelled due to COVID)
Regional 2021
The Mirror Effect, Playwrights Local
TBA, Rubber City Theatre
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A DOLL’S HOUSE - CLEVELAND CRITICS' CIRCLE AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT
"...a standout production...not to be missed...brought to rousing life by the Mamai Theatre Company... under the emotionally astute direction of Christine McBurney.
~Andrea Simakis, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A smart and stirring turn under Christine McBurney’s fast-paced and quietly gripping direction. An iconic piece of theater not to be missed."
Moon in the Mirror
Cleveland Contemporary Players
2020
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Telemann's Funeral Cantata
Apollo's Fire, 2019
“...inventive..."
Romeo and Juliet
Rubber City Theatre, 2019
Photos: Hazen Tobar
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The Woman Hater by Frances Burney (US Premiere)
Cleveland, OH 2016
Photos: Bob Perkoski
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“Under Christine McBurney’s stalwart direction, all this makes absolute sense and unfolds with remarkable dexterity, speed and humor. In fact, “The Woman Hater” is thoroughly entertaining.”
“Stellar staging... beautifully directed by Christine McBurney with particular attention given to the thread of frivolity that weaves its way through the script.”
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“That this union [of Mamet and Wilde] is such a lustful, satisfying one — especially under the kinetic, knowing direction of Mamaí Theatre Company’s Christine McBurney.”
~Andrea Simakis, Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Critique of the School for Wives
Baldwin Wallace University, 2019
Photo: Tom Shirilla
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Recent Directing
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, Guest Director, Ashland University
This is not Ramona's Fault by Mara Layne, Playwrights Local
Entanglement, by Les Hunter, Playwrights Local/Radio on the Lake
Tribunal, by Mark Milo Kessler, Playwrights Local
BrainWorks, (AD) Nine Network Public Media (St. Louis); Seth Gordon, Director
The Nether, (AD) Dobama Theatre, Shannon Sindelar, Director
Shaker Heights Theatre Arts Department Directing -- see Educator Page
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