Criseyda is a graduate of Central Catholic, where her love for performing led to a career path.  She attended Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory (BM with honors, Musical Theatre) and worked extensively throughout Cleveland and NE Ohio during her time there.  Following graduation, Criseyda was chosen to study at the prestigious Oxford School of Drama in England.  While there she performed for and was trained by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company, and earned the honor of top actress in her class. She then moved to London, where she studied singing with internationally renowned coach Ian Adam, and continued her performing career.  Criseyda has worked on stage and in TV and film alongside Emmy, BAFTA, and Academy Award nominees and winners in acting and directing.  She was the leading actress in a Shakespearean repertory company, where she met her husband John. Following her years in London, she lived in Chicago, where she taught acting to middle schoolers and developed the program “Shakespeare: An Actor’s Approach” for middle and high school literature classes.  After 18 years in Chicago she returned to her hometown of Canton and became the director of the arts and musical director in 2019.