(music & lyrics for PERSUASION) has written book, music and lyrics for Vera Wilde and Moon of My Delight (Empty Space Theatre);Kaleidoscope Eyes (Northwest Film Forum); and The Glory Booty Club (Garland Award); I See London, I See France; Radio Pirates; and The Fatty Arbuckle Spook House Revue (Annex Theatre, Footlight Award). Fatty was later produced at Yale School of Drama. Vera Wilde has been produced throughout the U.S. and abroad, most recently in Berkeley (four SFBATCC awards). Music/lyrics credits include Laura Comstock’s Bag-Punching Dog (Los Angeles, Ovation and LA Weekly Awards, Best Musical) and Horse Opera (Seattle, Minneapolis, Washington; NEA Consortium Grant). His music for Bunnicula (Kennedy Center/Seattle Children’s Theatre) has been heard in dozens of productions in the U.S. and Canada. He is under commission by A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) for a musical based on Jack Kerouac’s Maggie Cassidy. Chris received The Stranger’s first “Genius??? Award in Theatre and was twice a finalist for CalArts’ Alpert Award in the Arts. A graduate of Yale University, he lives in Seattle, Washington.