Christy completed her B.A. in English/Writing with more than fifty publications and six produced theatrical plays to her credit. She participated in two Northwest Drama Conferences with her dark comedy, Begging Man with Woman who is Clearly Bored.
Christy (and her son) moved to New Orleans for graduate-level film school. Her focus was screenwriting and playwriting. Her surreal drama, Good Enough Girl was produced in New Orleans hot-spot, Le Chat Noir. In three years, she penned six feature length screenplays and one short. Christy sought film industry insight and learned pitching techniques from several L.A. based screenwriting workshops. She learned elements of marketing and promotion in Small Business Training in 2001 and started booking, organizing and running small events. Her interests in film landed her television and movie work, on a small scale.
In 2002, Christy self published her previously published works into a volume of poetry and photography called, These are the Rooms to my Mother's House. The book made its debut at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She would go on to write a war biography, a book of travel humor, a New Orleans tour guide, two web magazines and other works in various levels of completion. Today, she has more than 1000 travel, event, and unconventional works of photography.
Christy got her music education from her mother's turn-tables and 500 albums. Throughout her elementary, junior high, high school and college years she sang in many advanced choir groups. She also hosted an eclectic radio show as disc jockey for six years. In New Orleans, a town known for it's music, Christy was a singer and song-writer in two bands. At Voodoofest 2004, Christy went solo as Vinylux.
Through-out her life she studied forms of dance, including elements of ethnic dance. Her interests in the marriage of sound, space and movement gave birth to Ice Scream Theatre. It was accepted into the CAC Dramarama 2004. She is the president of the non-profit, Southern Oregon Film Society and the graphic design company Optilux Design. Her other creative works can be found at Vinylux Productions.
