Partner Bios

Since 1999 Mythos Productions has been developing and creating a wide-array of entertainment, ranging from independent films and music videos to highly-visual theatrical and musical productions to city-scale interactive entertainment installations. Led by the effervescent husband and wife team of Christopher Burns and Tina Cardinale, Mythos has garnered awards in Filmmaking, Directing, Writing, and Sound Design. Fueled by a passion for storytelling and new media, Mythos now offers creative and technical consulting services to interactive entertainment companies to assist them in presenting the most engaging and captivating experience possible, while creating an easy-going, fun and educational atmosphere.

CHRISTOPHER BURNS
Christopher is an eclectic mix of technologist and artist, director and computer scientist. With 20 years of high-level software architecture and consulting and project management for some of America’s largest corporations, and over 30 years of ravenous computer and video game playing and analysis, he represents a unique asset to Mythos Productions. An educator in software development life-cycle and technology as well as in theatre arts, filmmaking, writing, and directing, Christopher is also an inspired and talented writer, director, and sound-designer. He tends to make every project a multi-media experience by using light, sound, and other artistic elements in unique and highly-effective ways.

Trained at the world-renowned American Conservatory Theatre, Writer’s Boot Camp, and Musicians’ Institute, as well as under the directorial mentoring of Mark Travis (Yale School of Drama, “Family Ties,” “A Bronx Tale”) and Asaad Kelada (Yale School of Drama, “Two and a Half Men,” “Dharma and Greg”), Christopher has studied acting, movement, speech, and voice, as well as directing actors, camera blocking, and writing for the stage and screen (from UCLA Screenwriting Department creator, Lew Hunter).

TINA CARDINALE
In addition to being a skilled and highly-visual director, as a life-long dancer and student of movement, Tina is a kinesthetic artist. Movement and physicality are her palette, and with them she crafts rich, intriguing, and dynamic characters. Human psychology and the study of motivational forces are Tina’s other major contributions to the team, which she uses as a story-director to sculpt the vivid, relatable, and organic situations steeped in emotionality, that lie at the core of everything Mythos touches.

Tina has spent her life honing and refining her acting and directing skills at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, American Conservatory Theatre (studying acting, voice, and speech), Playhouse West, Writer’s Boot Camp (studying writing for stage and screen), and under the direct guidance of Rodrigo Garcia (“Nine Lives,” “Six Feet Under,” “In Treatment”), Mark Travis, and Asaad Kelada. She began studying movement and dance, at a very young age, and trained with some of the industry’s most venerated teachers and choreographers at Dupre Dance Academy, and E.D.G.E. Performing Arts Center, two of the most respected training centers in the dance/movement world.

Also an educator of acting, directing, movement, and filmmaking, Tina’s innate and intuitive understanding of human nature make her an outstanding teacher and consultant.