About Chris

Passionate both on stage and on screen, I bring interdisciplinary insights into defining the most intricate, intimate, and implicit moments in my characters’ lives. A proud recent graduate of Wesleyan University, I am grateful for the creative and cultivating theatre and film culture at my alma mater.

Theatre

Title Role Directed by Produced by Year
Post Mortem   by Emma Hooks Jason Dominique Solomon Spotlighters Theatre 2025
The Armor We Wear   by Mark Gonzales The DM Gemma Watson Witness Theater, JHU 2025
Cousins’ Lunch (reading)   by Madison Epner Noah Kate Ketelhohn JHU Playshop 2024
Passage   by Christopher Chen B Annalisa Dias JHU Theatre 2024
Small Mouth Sounds   by Bess Wohl Jan Nina Jakobson Wesleyan Theater 2024

About Small Mouth Sounds: with few lines at my disposal, I turned carefully devised body movements and non-verbal sounds into intertwined pain, confusion, grief, love, and relief, guiding the audience through Jan’s courageous quest for human connections and self-discovery. At the end of the play, I brought on stage my character’s—and my own, as an actor—transformations. Show more & photos

Playwriting

Sunset on the Rooftop

Cast size: 2. Genre: drama, romance.

A couple is drawn into a fight when they missed the sunset on their apartment's rooftop patio, but it soon turns into an elegy for love.

Production history: Witness Theater, JHU, April 26–27, 2025. Director: Vanisha Kheterpal. Cast: Benjamin Roberts, Sarah Larson.

Short Film

Title Role Writer-Director Release year
The Good, the Bad, and the Study Simmons Sophia Burnett 2025
The Bow Mr. Amery Tanarihí Torres González 2025
The Planet Janus Student Caroline Lamoureux 2024
No Sleep, No Morning The Doctor Kieran Gettel-Gilmartin 2024
A Second Chance Jack Harry Yu 2024
Park Bench Protagonist Angelina Reddy 2023
Snap Away Audience Member Cole Goco 2023
The Groom Is a Lying Bastard Bar Patron Jolie Gui Zhang 2023

Short Film Crewing

Title Position Writer-Director Release year
Stuck Gaffer Jasmyne Le 2024
Baby Bits Grip Sloane Stone 2024
The Planet Janus Gaffer, Science Consultant Caroline Lamoureux 2024
Playback Special Thanks Gavin Zahn 2024
Park Bench Crew Angelina Reddy 2023

Education & Employment

2025 – Master Astronomy student Leiden University Leiden, The Netherlands
2024 – 2025 Research Assistant Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA
05 / 2024 B.A. with Honors in Astronomy Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut, USA

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