Christine Garrott
- Actress
Christine Garrott is a revolutionary, being the first active female performance artist in the Pittsburgh, PA experimental art scene. She is also an actress who has worked on several features, TV shows, independents, industrials, a commercial, and a music video. She was a stand-in for Sarah Jessica Parker in the pilot for Equal Justice, a stand-in for Sherilyn Fenn in The Assassination File, and a Stand-in for both Janeane Garofalo and Salma Hayek in Dogma. She has also worked on King Pin, Bob Roberts, Sudden Death, Iron Maze, Two Evil Eyes, Daddy Cool, The Young and The Restless, Bump in the Night, The Bride in Black, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, among other productions. In addition, she performed around thirty performance art pieces she created (sometimes collaborating with other artists, musicians, & performers--including her performance art duo, Two Blue Moons), from 1989-1995. Her performance art involved any combination of the following: original dance, installations, spoken word, visual words/poetry, prerecorded or live sound/music, video and visual art. Her performances often had ethical, moral, and spiritual themes. She received a Performance Art Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 1992. She was also a performance artist in a group multi-media installation/performance with fellow artist/musician, Dennis Childers, at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, in Pittsburgh, PA, funded by a grant from the Painted Bride in1992. She is also a visual artist, and her photographs, paintings and ceramic sculptures have been exhibited in various local galleries and art shows. Professional photographer, David Rubin, said that she was, "the best photographer to come out of the city of Pittsburgh." She was a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She won a cold reading Shakespearian acting contest at a very large Renaissance festival. She also studied filmmaking at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, has a B.A. degree in Communication Arts, with a minor in English/Writing from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA (1988), was ordained as a minister by the Progressive Universal Live Church (1998), and completed an internship in Directing for Theater at Chautauqua, NY (1986).