Christina Stroeh is a performing arts educator, director, singer-songwriter, playwright, filmmaker and community leader. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Christina began her music studies at the Yamaha School of Music in San Rafael, while also studying theatre and dance in school. She furthered her education as a theatre and music double major, following up with a teaching credential, and MA in Education at Dominican University.
Throughout her 30 year career as a high school arts and leadership educator, she has written and recorded three albums, produced and written an original book and score for the musical Cry Love, composed music for film and television, directed over 125 theatrical productions, and has performed as a singer-songwriter. Her first short film, Small Dancing Particles, was accepted in the Paris Short Film Festival in 2020.
An award winning educator, she is in the process of writing a book: Something to Say: A Field Guide for High School Theatre Educators, submitting her second short film, Queen Bea, to festivals as the writer, composer and director, and has begun writing her first feature screenplay. Christina is building a non-profit production/publishing company that teaches leadership through an artistic and educational lens. Additionally, Christina is creating a devised theatrical program for high school students and adults called the Conscience Piece and creating a publishing company for children’s books, poetry and memoirs.
Ongoing goals are to empower and encourage artists and communities to tell their stories. She is always looking to create challenging, but relatable writing, theatre, music, film and art, while encouraging all participants to remember who you are and what you have to give.