Chris Chiron as Cleante in StreetSigns' "The Miser"

CHRIS CHIRON

Chris is the Artistic Director of Wordshed East (2005- ). He has also served as Managing Director and resident Graphic Designer & Publicist for the company.

Chris has a B.A. in Communication Studies and an M.A. in English from the University of Northern Iowa, as well as an M.A. in Performance Studies from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Performance Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

With Wordshed, Chris has performed in:

• On Greed & Loneliness
• Mozart! (Davis, CA; Avignon, Fr)
• Play Four
• A Skull in Connemara
• The Lonesome West
• A Paradise It Seems: The Stories of John Cheever (NC, UK)
• Crash Diet and Other Sins (NC, UK)
• Shady Hills: The Short Stories of John Cheever
• Blue Heart
• A Circus for the Monkey (as part of Outside the Lines)
• Hot Nights at the Go Go Lounge (as part of Outside the Lines)
• Now, Run Along Home (as part of Outside the Lines)
• Nearly Finished: Five Short Plays by Samuel Beckett

Other performance work includes:

• 1776 (ArtsCenter)
• The Miser (StreetSigns)
• As You Like It (StreetSigns)
• Dream Boy (StreetSigns)
• The Turn of the Screw (StreetSigns)
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (StreetSigns)
• "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" (UNC Program for Humanities & Human Values)
• Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (UNI Studio Theatre Series)
• The Epic of Gilgamesh (UNI Interpreters' Theater)
• The System of Doctor Tarr & Professor Fether (UNI Interpreters' Theater)
• Iowa Stories: The Vietnam Experience (UNI Interpreters' Theater - touring production)
• The Long Walk to Forever (UNI Interpreters' Theater)
• A Year without Michael (UNI Interpreters' Theater - touring production)
• Applause (Fort Dodge Community Theater)
• The Odd Couple [Female Version] (Fort Dodge Community Theater)
• The Nerd (Fort Dodge Community Theater)
• Accommodations (Fort Dodge Community Theater)

His writing and directing credits include:

• A Hamlet Story (Adaptor)
• On Greed & Loneliness (Adaptor-Director)
• Vietamese Chess (Co-adapted and co-directed with Jennifer Terry-Boyenga and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Iowa Humanities Board)
• Dean R. Koontz’ Weird World: The Magazine of Strange & Confusing News (Adaptor-Director)
• Quirks (Original Play)
• Not Crazy, Overcrowded (Original Play)
• Gramma’s Millions (Original Play)

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