Chrissie Cartwright trained at Pattison College, Coventry, and has appeared in the West End musicals Billy, Irene, Evita, Barnum and Blondel and in Variety at the London Palladium and Victoria Palace.

Television appearances include The One and Only Phyllis Dixey, The Stanley Baxter Show, The Good Old Days, The Morecambe and Wise Show, There's Something Wrong in Paradise and three Royal Command performances. She appeared in The Great Muppet Caper, Lassiter, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Chrissie choreographed The Night They Raided Minsky's for the New Vic Company, Art of Noise at the Ambassadors Theatre, the London premiere of Mack and Mabel at the Aldwych Theatre and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Hit Dancing for Thames Television, Kiss Me Kate for Carlton Television, Alas Smith and Jones for BBC Television, Sherlock Holmes - the Musical for Exeter and the West End, Matilda for the Redgrave Theatre, Farnham and national tour, The Entertainer, The Devil's Virtuoso (also for Farnham), On the Twentieth Century at the Guildhall School of Drama, Annie at the Liverpool Playhouse and three pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Norwich and the Theatre Royal, York. She staged the West End production and national tour of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole and The Card at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury. She assisted Charles Augins on the London, New York and Melbourne productions of Five Guys Named Moe and has until recently been Artistic Co-ordinator of the London production of Cats, restaging the production for its UK tours, Belgium and Berlin, and assisting Gillian Lynne on the video of the show.