Chris grew up in Los Angeles and then went to Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. There he met and worked with Peter Schumann and Bread & Puppet Theater. He was introduced to papier-mache sculpture and agitprop performance. His first professional job at age 20 was to redesign the Fun House at Coney Island, New York. Celebrated with a front page review in the Village Voice, the Fun House was populated with his papier-mache creatures and special effects. From there he was briefly in Venice, Ca and then onto San Francisco and the Sausalito Waterfront. He was a regular performer and hawker of his masks at the Renaissance Faires. In the early 70’s, he was one of four collaborators of the heralded SNAKE theater in Sausalito. In 1980 he founded Antenna Theater. With Antenna he has written, designed and produced over 40 plays and special events. Antenna has toured in Mexico and performed there at the Guanajuato International Arts Festival at the invitation of Bellas Artes representing the United States. The Theater has also toured, by invitation, to London’s Round House (five months presenting EUPHORIUM), Paris, Rotterdam and five cities in Germany. His work has also been presented in Italy, New York City, the Smithsonian (seven months), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland. Chris is currently creating various presentations around Queen Calafia, from whom the name California was derived and the Heart of San Francisco event — a free public event of a skywriting plane drawing hearts over the Golden Gate and other Bay Area landmarks. Antenna is a non-profit, 501C3, organization located in Marin County, CA.