About Chris

As a writer and director in film, television and radio, his work has been commissioned and produced by the BBC, Channel 4, Granada, Carlton TV, History Channel, and the Discovery Channel.

His Royal College of Art student short film "One For My Baby" was nominated for a BAFTA award and he later wrote the short film “Killing Joe” (dir: Mehdi Norowzian) which was nominated for an Academy Award.

In the mid-1990s Chris was a regular director on EastEnders, directing twenty-three episodes including the famous “Sharongate” episodes, written by Tony Jordan. These became the most watched episodes for more than a decade, with ratings of over 24 million.

Chris lived in Los Angeles from 1999 - 2005, where he sold and optioned feature film projects to Warner Bros, Paramount, and Radical Media.

He has worked as a writer or director on major film and TV projects with no fewer than ten Emmy, Bafta and Academy Award nominees and winners — including John Schlesinger, Frank Deasy, Jack Lechner, Paula Weinstein and Len Amato. He was represented for over twenty years by the eminent Hollywood agent, then manager, Marion Rosenberg.

For radio, Chris has adapted Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms” and Chekhov’s “The Seagull” — both were Plays of The Week on the BBC World Service. His original radio series “Le Donne” (The Women) was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, in three seasons from 2012-15. The Times called it: “A wonderful example of radio drama at its best.”

Chris is a member of the WGA and is currently living in Venice, California.