Chris trained as a director at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and as an actor at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. He divides his time between directing and acting.

Recent productions, as a Director, include: The Amazing and Preposterous Constance Smedley for STC; Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis for Salisbury Playhouse; The Graduate and What The Dickens! for the New Vic Theatre and Oliver Twist as Assistant Director.

Other directing credits include: The Amazing and Preposterous Constance Smedley, When The Lights Went Out, The Higher Ground and The Gloucestershire Postcode Project for Stroud Theatre Company; Noah’s Ark, Bleak House, Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company; White Lights, Little Pictures, The Alma, Bristol; A Winter of War, Robert Frost In England, Left Luggage, Everyman Theatre Studio, Cheltenham; Adult Child/ Dead Child, Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester and national tour; Anna Karenina, Battersea Arts Centre; Mother Country, Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Enough Oxygen, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, After The Fair, Bristol Old Vic Theatre Basement; The Bear, The Proposal, Latchmere Theatre.

Chris is Artistic Director of Stroud Theatre Company. For more information please go to www.stroudtheatrecompany.co.uk

As an actor Chris will be playing O'Brien in "1984". This Northern Broadsides/Dukes Theatre Lancaster/Stroud Theatre Company co-production will be touring nationally in the autumn. Chris has also performed for Hampstead Theatre, the RSC, Royal Court, Salisbury Playhouse, Bolton Octagon, Library Theatre Manchester, Birmingham Rep, New Vic Theatre, Stoke and many, many other theatres as well as regularly turning up on the TV and radio.

To contact Chris about directing please contact Karen at www.associated-arts.co.uk (0208 856 4958)
To contact Chris about acting please contact Lee at
www.leemorganmanagement.co.uk (0207 766 5234)