Christina Rainwater

Scenic Charge Artist and Educator.

While sometimes exhausting, I love the paint, I love the work, I love the students. 

Per my bio:

Christina Rainwater is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, and has been a professional Scenic Artist for seventeen years. She received a BFA in Theatre from Missouri State University, and an MFA in Scenic Art from University of North Carolina School of the Arts. There, she developed the workshop “A Distress- ing Subject” on distressing techniques for scenery, properties, and costumes. She was the Scenic Charge Artist at the Flat Rock Playhouse in Flat Rock, North Carolina for two years. She has an on- going working relationship at Goodspeed Musicals, where she had the pleasure of working on the musicals Camelot, Carnival, Carousel, Hello Dolly!, and La Cage aux Folles. She also worked for Feld Entertainment in Palmetto, Florida, including Disney’s Princesses on Ice and Disney’s Playhouse Tour II.  For the past three summers, she's worked for six weeks at The Muny, St. Louis, as a journeyman Scenic Artist.