Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
Courses
Digital Frame&Sequence, Visual Colloquium, Urban Ensemble, Future Filmmakers Workshop, Summer
Filmmakers Workshop
Education
B.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Biography
Chris is the Co-Founder of Etc... experimental troupe comedy. He's been with the troupe ever since it was created in the Fall of 1998 and has served over the years as a writer, performer, director, and producer. Etc... has participated in the New York Fringe Festival two years in a row, with Apocalypse! Book One in 2004 and The Magnificent Hour in 2005. Besides a monthly sketch show, Etc... produces web-based content such as myPod, Law&Order: Etc... and The Party. Chris also works as an editor with Robert Small Entertainment, and has worked on Comedy Central's Stand Up Nation with Greg Giraldo and TV Land's Top 10 series. Independently, Chris' short films have screened locally as well as on the West Coast and have won numerous awards. His short film The Fraymaker was a winner of the Pioneer Film Slam 2001, an official selection in the Freight Film Festival 2002, and the New York Independent International Film Festival 2002. His follow up film, The Indestructible Brothers, was an official selection at the Arlene's Grocery Film Festival 2003, screened at the Godzookie Arts Festival 2003, and was a Screener's Club Selection 2004.
