Christopher Edwards

Chris received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Masters of Fine Arts in Theater; Acting at the University of Minnesota in association with the Guthrie Theater.  He has been working as a free lance director, actor, teacher, and teaching artist for the past ten years in New York City, nationally and internationally.  

As a teaching artist he has worked with inner city schools in the five boroughs with the Creative Arts Team, exploring such themes as conflict resolution, peer pressure, and substance abuse through drama.  For the past nine years, Chris has been working with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival as a Teaching Artist, Education Consultant and currently he is the Director of Education where he has had the pleasure of bringing the works of William Shakespeare to students all over the New York metropolitan area and the Hudson Valley Region.  As a teacher Chris has taught many different theater courses at Bennington College, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Minnesota, St. Michaels’s College, John Houseman’s the Acting Company, Weston Playhouse, and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Acting Apprenticeship Program.  Some of the courses Chris has taught include:  Acting, Voice, Shakespearean Scene Study, Stage Combat, Text Analysis and Movement for the Actor.  

As a director Chris has directed at Vermont Stage Co., Lincoln Center "Meet the Artists" Program, Atlantic Theaters with 24 hour plays, Capitol Repertory Theater, St. Michael’s Playhouse, St. Michael’s College, The Walker Arts Center, The Wiesman Arts Museum, the National Black Journalist Convention, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.  Some of the production Chris has had the pleasure to direct are:  Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, I Before Me a Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Women From Rwanda and Master Harold…and the boys, and Shakespeare the Remix.  As an actor Chris has acted in New York City, nationally and internationally.  He as worked in London’s West End, Off-Broadway and at Regional theaters in the US. Some of the theaters Chris has worked at include:  The Atlantic Theater Company, The New Victory Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, SOHO Rep., The Flea Theater, American Stage, Penumbra Theater, Vermont Stage Co. and Stanford Theater Works to name a few.  As a Fight Director Chris has choreographed stage fights Off Broadway, MASS MOCA,  Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Bennington College and Westchester Community College.  

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