Christine Breihan

Biography

Christine Breihan (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based performer, movement specialist and educator. She has worked with award-winning companies across the city including A Noise Within, Padua Playwrights, The Fountain, Theatricum Botanicum, Theatre Roscius, Theater of NOTE, Sacred Fools, Project Nongenue, Bocón Arts, Creative Playground, The Unusual Suspects, The Blank, and Ghost Road Theater Ensemble. She is a resident teaching artist at Center Theatre Group, where she develops and implements theatre curriculum for learners of all ages. Internationally, she studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic arts, and has performed at the Grotowski Laboratorium in Wroclaw, Poland and the Eastern Front Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her movement and intimacy work has appeared on stages across the country, including Soho Rep, The Getty Villa, The University of Maryland, Loyola Marymount University, and Boston University. She recently directed her first full-length production, The Dry Years, with The Ghost Road Theatre Ensemble. She holds her BFA in Acting from Boston University, and her MFA from Loyola Marymount University, where she currently lectures in Movement, Acting, and Pedagogy. She is a CMA (Certified Movement Analyst) with the Laban/Barteneiff Institute of Movement Studies, and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

Education (3)

Boston University: BFA, Acting 2008

Loyola Marymount University: MFA, Performance Pedagogy 2021

Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies: Certified Movement Analyst (CMA), Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis 2023

Industry Expertise (3)

Education/Learning

Training and Development

Performing Arts

Affiliations (3)

• SAG/AFTRA
• Actor's Equity Association (AEA)
• The Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME)