Studio Shrewsbury is committed to cultivating a creative environment that uplifts and supports women within the art department. With a name that quietly reclaims the word “shrew,” Christina embraces the idea of the outspoken, perceptive woman as a source of strength, vision, and creative authority. The studio operates with an ethos of rigor, creative openness, and respect for the craft, welcoming collaboration across all disciplines while intentionally fostering space for new voices to emerge.
Christina Shrewsbury is a production and set designer whose work centers on creating environments that feel emotionally resonant, lived-in, and alive. Her designs invite audiences not just to observe a space, but to step fully into it—into worlds shaped by texture, history, and human experience.
Raised between the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Washington Heights, and the Jersey Shore, Christina’s multicultural upbringing informs a deeply layered artistic perspective. Her father, a Vietnam veteran, former rock singer, and entertainment producer - and her mother, a former vocalist from the Dominican Republic, she was immersed early in storytelling, music, and visual expression. She also carries a familial connection to early cinematic world-building through her great uncle, David Hand, the director and animator who oversaw the creation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, Fantasia, and classic Mickey Mouse shorts. This foundation in the art of story-telling instilled in her a lasting fascination with the interplay between the ordinary and the extraordinary—an idea that continues to guide her work.
With a particular affinity for period and fantastical settings, Christina approaches design through rigorous research and a sensitivity to material, color, and atmosphere. Whether crafting an intimate domestic interior or an expansive imagined world, her environments are built to feel authentic, dynamic, and inhabited—spaces that carry the emotional weight of the narratives they hold.
Her background in English literature continues to shape her philosophy. Inspired by Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, and its call to “see into the life of things,” Christina’s work seeks to reveal the unseen emotional and psychological dimensions of space.
Her work ultimately strives to create spaces as vivid and emotionally complex as the characters who inhabit them—where design is not just a backdrop, but an essential force within the story. At Studio Shrewsbury, designing a space is to create a living vessel that will serve as the container for both character and story.
