Performing Arts Camp Staff

Christine Pearsall is director of Penn Charter's Performing Arts Camp. Christie is a Middle School English teacher and performing arts educator at Penn Charter. She has been the assistant director for Middle and Upper School plays and musicals, including Seussical; Hairspray; Roshambo; and The Baloney, The Pickle, The Zombies, and Other Things I Hide from My Mother. In addition to her work at Penn Charter, she has served as a teaching artist and designed drama courses for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth, McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton University), and Radnor Township School District. 

Mary Fishburne is a theater artist, voice teacher, and composer based in Philadelphia. She has performed throughout the country in plays, musicals and one-woman shows, including successful runs in New York City. She was named “Best Actress in Charleston” and founded and ran the Woolfe Street Playhouse Department of Education for seven years before relocating back to the Northeast.