Christie has a BA in Theatre and Film from KU, a Master's in Theatre and Drama Therapy from K-State, and is now in her 3rd year in the Special Education Doctoral program at KU.  She started her career in Seattle’s nonprofit sector working with Seattle Opera, Open Circle Theatre and Seattle Children’s Theatre, as well as homeless shelters and domestic violence programs as an artist, administrator and advocate providing arts outreach to the community. In Lawrence, raising three art-making and baseball-playing boys for the past 16 years, she has shaped her personal and professional life around the arts, especially theater and film, for healing and social change.

Christie continues to teach, direct, produce, and act in theatre and film projects.  She co-produced What We've Become, with Jennifer Nelson, and has worked on Jayhawkers, Earthwork, and The Sublime and Beautiful among other independent film projects in Lawrence and KC.  She recently co-directed Bent for Lawrence Arts Center and The Pearl in Kansas City with EMU Theatre, and was seen in ReThink: I am a Veteran at LAC and When the Rain Stops Falling, a world premiere production at KU Theatre.  She is a co-founder of Women of Lawrence Film and a former Lawrence Arts Commissioner.  Her company, StormDoor Productions, launched in 2010 creating short documentary films and theatrical pieces by, for, and about youth. She worked most recently on the team that brought The Penguin Project: Aladdin, Jr. to Theatre Lawrence.