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Chris has worked in theatre and opera throughout Europe. In 2009 he was Associate Director at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, and directed Cosi fan tutte at the Opera du rhin in Strasbourg. In November 2010 he will be directing Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles for the Donmar Warehouse's Trafalgar Season at the Trafalgar Studios
Theatre directing credits include: Brassed Off (Garrick Theatre, Lichfield), Truckstop (Edinburgh Festival, national tour, Hampstead Theatre - winner of two Best Acting Awards - Stage Newspaper), Fireface (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), The Beaver Coat (Finborough Theatre), Blurt Master Constable (Shakespeare's Globe), Now (Soho Theatre), Millicent Scowlworthy (Donmar Warehouse), Under The Earth (BAC).
As Assistant Director his credits include: The Royal Hunt of the Sun (NT, dir. Trevor Nunn), Coriolanus (RSC World Tour, dir. Gregory Doran), Don Giovanni (ROH, dir. Francesca Zambello) Die Tote Stadt (ROH, dir. Willie Decker), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway transfer to West End, dir. Anthony Page) Don Juan (Lyric Hammersmith, dir. Neil Bartlett).
In 2005 Chris was Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre where he insisted on the following productions: Days of Wine and Roses (dir. Peter Gill), The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (dir. Tim Supple), This Is How It Goes (dir. Moises Kaufmann), Mary Stuart (dir. Phyllida Lloyd), The God of Hell (dir. Kathy Burke), The Wild Duck (dir. Michael Grandage).
He studied International Theatre Directing MA at Middlesex University which, as well as London, took him to Moscow, Northern Ireland, Madrid and Bangkok to study different cultural approaches to drama.
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