Chris Ghaffari Chris Ghaffari
Union affiliation:
AEA
SAG-Eligible
 
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown

Production Experience

Title

Role

Place

Director


Theatre

 

 

 

King Lear

Ensemble

Public Theater

Daniel Sullivan

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo

Hartford Stage

Darko Tresnjak

peerless

D, D's Brother (u/s)

Yale Repertory Theatre

Margot Bordelon

Elevada

Owen (u/s)

Yale Repertory Theatre

Jackson Gay

These Paper Bullets!

Anton (u/s)

Yale Repertory Theatre

Jackson Gay

A Streetcar Named Desire

Stanley Kowalski (u/s)

Yale Repertory Theatre

Mark Rucker

As You Like It

Orlando

Shakespeare on the Sound

Claire Kelly

Julius Caesar

Lucius

Shakespeare on the Sound

Ezra Barnes

Coriolanus

Coriolanus

Yale School of Drama

Yagil Eliraz

We Are All Here

Francois

Yale Cabaret

David Bruin

Fucking A

First Hunter

Yale School of Drama

Joan MacIntosh

The Troublesome Reign of King John

Chatillon, First Citizen,
Cardinal Pandulph

Yale School of Drama

Leora Morris

This Flat Earth

Dan

Yale School of Drama

Luke Harlan

Touch

Benny Locasto

Yale Cabaret

Julian Elijah Martinez

Paradise Lost

Sam Katz, Post, Police Officer

Yale School of Drama

Stephen Brown-Fried

In Arabia We’d All Be Kings

Charlie

Yale School of Drama

Ron Van Lieu

Woyzeck

Woyzeck

Princeton University

Cara M. Tucker

Angels in America (I & II)

Joe Pitt

Princeton University

Sara-Ashley Bischoff

The Monkeys Are Coming

The Man

Princeton University

Gabriel Crouse

My Fair Lady

Higgins' Butler, 1st Cockney,
Lord Boxington

Princeton University

Suzanne Agins


Film/Television

 

 

 

Some Freaks

Frat Boy 1

Half Jack Productions

Ian McDonald

Men of Habit

Lead

MRB Films

Bryan Elsom


Select Directing

 

 

 

Roberto Zucco

Director

Yale Cabaret

 

A Broken Liver and A Cataract

Director

Riant Theatre; Snowballs Festival

 

Elephants' Graveyard

Director

Princeton University

 

Catastrophe; Ohio Impromptu

Director

Princeton University

 

This Is Our Youth

Director

Princeton University

 

Education

School

Degree

Area of Study

Teacher

Princeton University

BA

English, summa cum laude

Michael Cadden, Tim Vasen, Robert N. Sandberg, Tracy Bersley

Yale School of Drama

MFA

Acting

 

 

 

Acting

Ron Van Lieu, Evan Yionoulis, David Chambers, Robert Woodruff

 

 

Acting/Shakespeare/Text

Peter Francis James, James Bundy, Steven Skybell

 

 

Speech-Dialect

Beth McGuire, Jane Guyer Fujita

 

 

Voice

Walton Wilson, Grace Zandarski, Louis Colaianni, Dawn-Elin Fraser

 

 

Alexander Technique

Jessica Wolf, Bill Connington

 

 

Singing

Glenn Seven Allen, Anne Tofflemire

 

 

Stage Combat

Rick Sordelet, Michael Rossmy

 

 

Dance for Actors

Lori Leshner, Moncell Durden

 

 

The Body as Source/The Body in Space

Erica Fae

 

 

Voice Over

Billy Serow

 

 

Clown/Commedia

Christopher Bayes

 

 

Theater Games

Justine Williams

 

 

Creating Actor-Generated Work

Joan MacIntosh

 

 

Acting for Camera & Professional Preparation

Ellen Novack, Gregory Berger-Sobeck

 

 

Yoga

Annie Piper

 

Awards and Honors

Francis LeMoyne Page Theater Award (2012); Alan Downer Thesis Prize (2012); Emily Ebert Junior Prize (2011); Outstanding Work in Theater (2009, 2010); Class of 1883 Freshman Prize, honorable mention (2009)

 

Special Skills

Accents: Detailed American, Upper and Modern RP, Popular London, Afrikaans, Italian; Basic juggling, Tumbling, Stage Combat (Armed/Unarmed); Sports: Football, Lacrosse, Running, Cycling, Weight Lifting