Chris is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teacher.
Plays: performed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Heaven Knows; Sittin’; Chester Theatre (Home Fires Burning), Lexington Conservatory Theatre (A Fool’s Errand), the Lincoln Center Institute (Yesterday’s People), 52nd Street Project (Marathon and Mucilage), and the NY Theatre Workshop New Directors’ Fest (A Fool’s Errand), among others. Publishers Samuel French, Plays for Living, Dramatists Play Service, and Bloomsbury/Methuen. Musicals: Houdini Among the Spirits (in development with Resonance Ensemble) and Ella, Reach for Tomorrow (in development with On the Brenk Prods).
Screenplays: Walking Shadows (with D.S. Lliteras); Home Fires Burning (with L.A. Puopolo, released as The Turning, feature, starring Karen Allen and Tess...
Chris is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teacher.
Plays: performed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Heaven Knows; Sittin’; Chester Theatre (Home Fires Burning), Lexington Conservatory Theatre (A Fool’s Errand), the Lincoln Center Institute (Yesterday’s People), 52nd Street Project (Marathon and Mucilage), and the NY Theatre Workshop New Directors’ Fest (A Fool’s Errand), among others. Publishers Samuel French, Plays for Living, Dramatists Play Service, and Bloomsbury/Methuen. Musicals: Houdini Among the Spirits (in development with Resonance Ensemble) and Ella, Reach for Tomorrow (in development with On the Brenk Prods).
Screenplays: Walking Shadows (with D.S. Lliteras); Home Fires Burning (with L.A. Puopolo, released as The Turning, feature, starring Karen Allen and Tess Harper, based on his play Home Fires Burning); award winning PBS documentary, Passing Over (with Michael Ceraso); The Red Forest (with Michael Ceraso) Daytime TV (NBC): Another World; Children’s TV Network: Ghostwriter Radio, Footsteps in the Dark (Bronze Worldmedal for radio writing) and Pigeon Brains. Play Bach! (children’s play and concert; a Sesame Street Magazine Best Buy). As 52nd Street Project “Teen Dean”: adapted eight Shakespeare plays for performance by young actors and co-authored a book on the subject, published by Dramatists Play Service.
Actor: with Resonance Ensemble, Caesar and Cleopatra (Caesar), Master Builder (Solness), Cherry Orchard (Gaev), R.U.R. (Alquist), premieres of The Coffee Trees (Giron), Shakespeare’s Slave (Fechter), Burning (Lazarus); at EST, and elsewhere, premieres by Durang, Giron (Feynman in Moving Bodies), Guare, Linney (Klonsky in Klonsky and Schwartz), Mamet, S. Merson, J.C. Oates, L. Wilson (Tuzenbach in the premiere of Wilson’s translation of 3 Sisters) and M. Wellman, etc. TV/Film: Coach of the Year, Law and Order, Law and Order-SVU, Deadline, City Kids. Regional from Shakespeare to Williams. Drew University AEA Guest Artist and Professor: The Tempest (Prospero), King Lear (Lear), Three Sisters (Dr. Chebutylkin).