Christine Scarry is a theatre director, creative producer, vocal coach and educator, with almost 30 years' experience across the cultural, corporate and education sectors.

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As a director and performer, she has worked with national and international casts on a wide range of plays and musicals both at home and abroad, and has directed work in New York City as well as in theatres all over Ireland, most recently Our House at The Everyman, Cork and The Phantom of the Opera at the National Opera House, Wexford. She is Artistic Director of Red Alchemy Theatre Company, Musical Director of Alchemy Vox and, in 2022, joined the faculty at MTU Cork School of Music, where she directs and teaches Acting on the BA Musical Theatre programme.  

In 2022 she founded The Sondheim Festival (@thesondheimfestival) - the first festival to celebrate the life and work of theatre titan, Stephen Sondheim - now an annual feature on Kilkenny’s cultural tourism calendar.  The next festival will take place from 15-16 February, 2025 with the Olivier-nominated actress Rachel Tucker (star of Wicked, Come From Away, etc) as the headline act.

In the corporate world, Christine has delivered her Virtual Voices Programme to both Women At Indeed and Glanbia as part of their corporate engagement, wellbeing and DB&I programmes.  She helps business people develop their speaking skills, guides non-native English speakers to achieve their full potential and works with non-performative creatives to communicate their word-based art, poetry and other writings to the public. 

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Christine is also the musical director of Alchemy Vox (www.alchemyvox.com).  Covering some of the most iconic songs in pop and rock, this six-piece all-female vocal group perform in concert, at festivals and at both private and corporate events ... they are equally at home as soloists or creating their magic together with a diverse setlist from Bowie to Billie Eilish, U2 to Hozier – all in their own unique style, and most recently performed their sold-out Winter Voices at The Sugar Club, Dublin.

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Producing/Directing credits include: The Phantom of the Opera (National Opera House, Wexford), Our House (The Everyman, Cork), The Wizard and I – Liz Callaway Sings Stephen Schwartz (The Curtis Auditorium, Cork), Now You Know! – Fra Fee Sings Sondheim (Watergate Theatre), Vincent – A Play by Leonard Nimoy (National Tour), In Good Company – Liz Callaway Sings Sondheim (Watergate Theatre), Find Your Way Home (Symphony Space NYC & US Tour), Steppin’ Out (Cork Opera House), The Addams Family (The Everyman, Cork), Ritual For Dolls (Mill Theatre), Listen To My Heart (National Tour), The Lonesome West (National Tour), Assassins, Cabaret, Rent,  A Little Light Music (The Helix), Light, Dark & Diverse, Michael Collins, Parade, The Full Monty, The Addams Family, Sweeney Todd (Watergate Theatre), La Bohème (Opera In The Park for Dublin City Council), Putting It Together (Pavilion Theatre),  the Irish premiere of The Producers, Sondheim’s Follies (National Opera House), West Side Story (Solstice), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Millbank), Into The Woods (Draíocht & Theatre Royal), Bugsy Malone (Olympia Theatre), Annie (Olympia & Cork Opera House), Mad About Musicals (NCH), The June Rodgers Show, Moonlight and Music with Rebecca Storm & Peter Corry (Solstice) plus almost ten years as director of the pantomime season at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin.  In February 2025 she is honoured to present An Audience with Rachel Tucker at the Watergate Theatre, and looks forward to directing Young Frankenstein at the National Opera House.

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Originally an actor/singer, Christine worked professionally at theatres and concert venues all over Ireland, playing widely diverse roles in both plays and musicals.  She has played opposite international musical theatre stars such as John Barrowman, David Kernan, Millicent Martin, Dave Willetts and Lorna Luft, frequently broadcast live concert performances for RTE, and toured Ireland and the USA in cabaret.  Her tv/radio credits include The Late Late Show, The Gerry Ryan Show, Theatre Nights (all for RTE) and Friday Night Is Music Night (BBC).  After an absence of almost 15 years, Christine returned to the stage as Emsy in A New Fish at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.  Christine's original training was in Voice and Piano at Dublin’s Conservatory of Music & Drama and the Royal Irish Academy of Music; she holds a first-class MA in Theatre Studies (Directing) from Dublin City University, and a Postgraduate Distinction in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship from Trinity College, Dublin.  She is an accredited coach at global voice network - Vocology in Practice, has trained in singing for lung health with Phoene Cave, and continually updates her vocal health education at London’s Voice Care Centre.  

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From Dublin, Christine lives in Kilkenny City with her artist husband, their gorgeous golden retriever Ziggy, and two crazy rescue cats, Dot and Clarence!  Ziggy and Christine are a Visiting Team for Irish Therapy Dogs – a charity she has worked with for over ten years. She is also a member of the Stephen Sondheim Society, the British Voice Association, Vocology in Practice, and Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce. ​