Christy House

Christy Carol House was born on December 26, 1962 in Dallas, Texas. She grew up in the Los Angeles area and attended the University of Southern California where she got to watch Marcus Allen gain 2000 yards in a season for the first time in College Football history behind one of the greatest offensive lines known to the sport. She majored in Drama and minored in Anthropology. She participated there in a program called Thematic Option which allowed her to work with and study with, at that time International Anthropologist of the year, Dr. Barbara Myerhoff. Dr. Myerhoff was famous for having done the first field study of the Huichol Indians of Mexico and had just won an Academy Award for her documentary "Number Our Days" about the old Jewish Community in Venice California. Dr. Myerhoff was instrumental in developing something we now call "Ethnographic" film which was in it's baby stages at that time. After graduating she spent 2 years off and on with a theatre company in the UK called