Christopher’s four plays The Dog Logs, Barnesy, The Harbour and You, Backpacker! and The Young Tycoons all have had multiple productions throughout Australia.

Christopher's screenplay Friends Like These allowed him to reach 2nd place (out of an initial 750 entries) in the national reality television scriptwriting competition PROJECT GREENLIGHT in 2006.

His screenplay Backpacker (then known as The Guests) was one of three short-listed finalists for the TropFest Feature Program in 2006.

Since its premiere at La Mama in Melbourne in May 2001, Christopher’s play The Dog Logs has extensively toured Australia, produced by Marguerite Pepper Productions and supported by Playing Australia and The NSW Ministry For The Arts. Before that, it has been performed twice each in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, playing to packed houses and earning ecstatic reviews. Bruce Kerr, from the Melbourne production, was nominated for the Green Room Award for Outstanding Male Performance for his work in The Dog Logs. The Dog Logs toured Australia for nine weeks starting in September 2004, produced by Marguerite Pepper Productions and supported by Playing Australia and The NSW Ministry for the Arts. The Dog Logs played as part of the CRACKER Comedy Festival in Sydney throughout March 2005.

The Young Tycoons played two literal sell-out seasons at the Darlinghurst Theatre in September 2005 and January 2006.

Backpacker! played a literal sell-out one week season at the Darlinghurst Theatre in October 2003 and returned there for a highly successful five week run in April and May 2004.

Barnesy, The Harbour and You has had two month-long seasons at the Darlinghurst Theatre, in July-August 2003 and January 2004.

Christopher’s story Real Wild Life was published in HQ Magazine.

Christopher graduated from the NIDA Directing Course in 1997. His directing credits include Othello and Macbeth in successive years at The New Theatre, Sydney. He was Richard Wherrett’s Assistant Director on Cabaret for the Gordon/Frost Organisation and was Gale Edwards’ Assistant Director for the Sydney Theatre Company/Olympic Arts Festival production of The White Devil.

His extensive career as an actor includes working with Steve Martin on Picasso At The Lapin Agile at the American Repertory Theatre, where he also appeared in Henry IV, Parts One and Two and Macbeth. More recently he played Edmund the Bastard opposite Ralph Cotteril’s King Lear. He played Romeo at the Mill Mountain Theatre and the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, the Syrian in Howling Moon’s New York production of Salomé and Demetrius and Flute in Mary-Anne Gifford’s acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Railway Street Theatre Company. He played the lead role of Kilian in the feature film The Magic Stone and the lead role of Julian in Frailejon, which won an Emmy and was nominated for an Acadamy Award and an Australian Film Institute Award. He also played Bosola for the New Theatre’s 1998 production of The Duchess of Malfi.

Christopher is the ongoing host of Thursday Preview and ScreenScene on Eastside Radio 89.7FM and was the Theatre Contributor to Saturday Night Live on Radio 2UE.

This bio is also downloadable here (pdf)