CHRIS JORIE - DIRECTOR
" Chris Jorie provides the perfect environment for his collaborators to soar."
Thomas Kail, Director of HAMILTON
CHRIS JORIE
Chris Jorie has worked for over fifty years in Theatre, Television and Film. He has collaborated with distinguished artists including
Thomas Kail, Tony Award Winning Director of HAMILTON; Academy Award and
Emmy
Nominated Actress, Mary McDonnell - DANCES WITH WOLVES, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - also nominated for the Critics Choice Award 2024 for THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER on Netflix. Chris has also worked with Ryan Gosling, Keri Russell, Laurie Metcalf, Judi Dench, George C Scott and Ephie Aardema, from the upcoming Broadway production of OUR TOWN, directed by Kenny Leon. He is a director, writer, producer and actor as well a performing and media arts consultant and specialist. He portrays Czar Nicholas the 1st in the upcoming historical drama feature, DEATH COMES TO PUSHKIN. Chris is currently Assistant Director for award winning writer/director, Emily Mann, on her new play, CODE RED, presently in development in NYC. He is also in preproduction to direct THE BOOKWRITER, a romantic comedy feature film. Chris has also written - and is in development - for the original feature films, HEAVEN ABOVE EARTH BELOW, and BATTER THE HEART.
Director
Chris Jorie has directed plays in theatres all over the USA, from Aspen Colorado to Off-Broadway. He directed the Regional Premieres of WIT, PROOF, HAVING OUR SAY, PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE, THE OLD SETTLER, SPINNING INTO BUTTER, COYOTE ON A FENCE, DOUBT and SOUVENIR, direct from their Broadway and off-Broadway runs. American Classics include, FENCES, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE MIRACLE WORKER, and the musicals, MAN OF LA MANCHA, MY FAIR LADY, CAMELOT and GREASE, as well as the Regional Premieres of FIRST DATE, ALWAYS PATSY CLINE, A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, HONK, JUST SO and the Beatles Tribute, IN MY LIFE. Chris has also directed and help develop numerous new works including, SEE ROCK CITY, SAVAGES in addition to, I TOUCH THE FUTURE, THE SPIRIT IN MY SOUL and THE REAL ME for young and family audiences. He has worked as an acting coach along side directors and actors on numerous television and film productions for PBS, ABC, CBS,TNT, Paramount, Disney, Buena Vista TV and Nickelodeon. Chris is a member of SDC, STAGE DIRECTORS & CHOREOGRAPHERS, the Guild of Professional Stage Directors, SAG/AFTRA, Actors Equity and the Dramatist Guild. References include Tony Nominated Director/Playwright, Emily Mann and Director/Playwright, Randy Reinholz.
Scenes from theatre productions directed by Chris Jorie
"Chris Jorie provides an avenue to the truth." Mary McDonnell
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, DANCES WITH WOLVES
"Anne Nelson's historical drama has a lacerating beauty. Set in Manila in 1902, during the raging Philippine-American War, it manages to compress a continuous cycle of conquest and retribution into one night of charged encounters between a naïve young soldier (Brett Holland), whose job it is to guard an ailing military officer on trial, and the Filipina nurse Maridol (Julie Danao-Salkin), who is there to ease the accused man's suffering before his trial resumes again in the morning. Major Waller (James Matthew Ryan) is like a figure out of Conrad—bloodshot and ravaged, accused of enigmatic crimes, half-mad with memory. Nelson, a former war correspondent, brings eloquence to this wartime drama, and the director,
Chris Jorie, elicits quietly incisive work from his cast."
-The New Yorker
"...Director Chris Jorie brings such sensitivity to this story that, with his People's Theatre production... Jorie and his actors have found bravery... they've found the heart of Griffin 's play. Jorie is a new face for People's Theatre, a 2-year-old multicultural company that has bumped along from show to show without discovering a strong directorial hand. With The Boys Next Door, the shift is obvious. Not only has Jorie attracted actors who might not have auditioned for the company otherwise, but he has led them to be as good as they can. It's what theater should always be.”
- The Orlando Sentinel
"Chris Jorie has been choosing and writing work to specifically support diversity and inclusion long before it was on the forefront."
Lucy Carney, Theatre Artist, Educator, Board Member.
Mary McDonnell
These exceptionally talented women made Emily Mann's powerful new play, CODE RED, soar at the first reading for The Tent Theatre at Playwrights Horizons Studios, downtown. Great gratitude for Co-Artistic Directors, Tim Sanford and Aimee Hayes, for their vision and complete support in creating this opportunity for all of us - and to the prolific creative force that is Emily Mann. This gifted ensemble from left to right includes, Michele Pawk, Judith Ivey, Ruth Aguilar, Elizabeth Marvel and Colleen Werthmann. 8/30/24
Jim Howard & T. Robert Pigott in COYOTE ON A FENCE - THE "JUST SO" COMPANY - Christine Decker & Elle Verne in DOUBT, Directed by Chris Jorie
contact: chris.jorie@chrisjorie.com
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