Chris Cresswell – Actor, Director & Workshop Leader
Performing, Producing, Directing, Inspiring . . . making spectacular theatrical moments!
Chris Cresswell has worked in theatre, performance and teaching for over 30 years. His work spans many genres including cabaret, circus, physical theatre, film and television.
Performance across many genres
Chris has worked across many genres of performance ranging from street art to international circus and theatre to television and film.
Showreel
This is a showreel put together from a collection of clips of films, commercials and video projects. The commercials were mostly for Norway and Germany and the film was ” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, the final clip is from a short made with Simon Wilkinson.
Chris Cresswell’s extensive professional experience in cinema, cabaret and physical theatre shone through in the performances from the young people. They would not have been out of place on a west end stage or arty bohemian cabaret. . Chris’ unique take on dark and humorous, surreal but slick cabaret performance clearly has a huge appeal to these older teenagers and he achieved the difficult task of making white faced mime very very cool!
About Chris
From performing and producing to to teaching and directing, Chris has had experience across many genres of the arts and theatre and circus . .
Workshops & Courses
He continues to teach and perform on workshops for older people working with Theatre Royal Brighton with Age Is A Stage Theatre company . .
Projects
Chris’s project range from a musical junk percussion troupe to a cabaret style variety circus, so take a look at just a few he has worked on . .
Performing, Directing and Cabaret
Chris has been working professionally since gaining his Equity card in the late 1980’s touring on the alternative cabaret circuit with Skint Video before joining international circus theatre Ra Ra Ra Zoo and consequently travelling and performing worldwide.
He has since continued to work in the circus, cabaret and vaudeville as a director and performer. He created and has directed and led Voodoo Vaudeville since 1999 to the present day.
Commercial Career
In the 2000’s I was shooting lots of commercials, including for Castrol and a lovely long running series in Norway, with many adventures in other countries in Europe, but this was a favourite fun local one filmed for Parsley Productions 2011
Chris is currently running creative comedy based workshops for over 50’s at Theatre Royal, Brighton and at Ropetackle Arts Shoreham, with his company “Age is a Stage” more info here.
He is also running School for Clowns at Theatre Royal, a theatre clown course for professionals More info here