Christopher Green
Christopher’s work has several distinct strands with a unified vision of the transforming power of entertainment to inform, provoke and inspire. www.christophergreen.net
Awards
Two Olivier Awards, Time Out Theatre Award, Total Theatre and Green Room (Australia). Nominations for Green Room and Helpmann Awards in Australia for Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word as Tina C.
Attachments
Attachment to the National Theatre Studio 2013
Leverhulme Artist in Residence at The British Library 2012-2013
Artistic Associate of Entelechy Arts: cross generational performance entelechyarts.org
Artistic Associate of Duckie. Co-creator of the phenomenally successful C’est Duckie! and five other major theatrical experiences duckie.co.uk
Consultant & Creative Matchmaker of The Festival of the Mind, University of Sheffield
Experiential Theatre Work
Prurience. Scripted immersive piece about pornography addiction, developed whilst on attachment to the National Theatre Studio October/November 2013. In development.
A Silent Night? Plot by the novelist Sarah Waters, experience by Christopher Green. To be staged at Birmingham Hippodrome December 2014
Extra/Ordinary House. In collaboration with The National Trust London, Christopher’s house is opened to the public as though it were a grand historical National Trust House. Scheduled for September 2014
This Show Has No Name. Scratch performances throughout Summer 2013 supported by the Udderbelly and the Southbank Centre
The Party Party. Experiential performance commissioned by The British Library for their Propaganda Exhibition. July 2013
Office Party. The immersive show where the audience are party, and the party is the show. Co-created with Ursula Martinez and directed by Cal McCrystal. A hit at the Barbican and Edinburgh Festivals and UK run produced by Just for Laughs Live. 2008-2012
VIP:A fake backstage party commissioned by Festival Republic. Played the four biggest UK festivals Summer 2009. Stage as part of The Game Is Up Festival at the Vooruit Theatre, Ghent, Belgium, March 2011.
The Razzle 1961:A commission from the Lord Mayor of London for his annual charity dinner 2011 and Latitude summer 2011. It's an East End Niteclub, think Krays, gangsters and tacky luxurious showbiz.
Working Man's Club:An installation event for IQUN and Latitude Festivals 2010.
Theatre
The Singing Hypnotist. Developed whilst the first ever Artist in Residence at The British Library. Has played Barbican Theatre and Latitude Festival. Set to play as part of the caravan International Showcase May 2014 at Brighton Festival, and Shoreditch Town Hall Nov 2014. Funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Pop Junkie. 10 characters obsessed with pop. The only theatre show, apart from Mamma Mia, with permission to use Abba’s music theatrically.
Comedy Characters
Tina C:A global country music superstar who has gone from small town America, via world peace envoy, to standing for election as a celebrity independent candidate against BO in 2008. 2013 saw her comeback tour in the UK called Where The Hell Were You? Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word has played many times in Australia and will be staged July 2014 at the Sydney Opera House as the centrepiece of the NAIDOC Indigenous Arts Festival. This highly successfulcomedy creation has played in venues all over the world, presented a UK TV series, Yanky Panky,and performed for royalty, the rich and famous and most important thousands of punters. Tina’s five series for BBC Radio 4 are currently on perpetual repeat on BBC Radio 4 Extra. A new series Tina C’s The Empire Strikes Back about the British Commonwealth is set for broadcast during the Commonwealth Games in July 2014
Ida Barr:A rapping pensioner who instead of morosely looking back on her glory days as a music hall singer, is embracing a style of music called Artificial Hip Hop. Ida is based on a real English music hall star and is based on a mountain of research. The pensioner turned rapper made her first BBC Radio 4 series in Summer 2010. She has wowed audiences with her shows including Artificial Hip Hop, Get Old or Die Trying, and Last Christmas (Possibly) at the Barbican. Ida Barr took over the National Theatre over the official 2012 Jubilee Celebrations with her Tea and Sympathy project. The Arts Council are the on-going supporters of Ida Barr’s Mashup, an intergenerational community project, which will tour the UK over three years from 2013-16. This intergenerational community project has partners Ida’s World War 1 Mashup starts in Autumn 2014.
DrJedd O'Sullivan:US cultural critic and Art History author, offers insightful philosophical analysis of human behaviour and politics in today's world and had appeared in such venues as both Tate galleries, V&A, the Barbican Art Gallery, the National Theatre and the Science Museum.
Derek Diamond:Formerly trading as Mr Baz Vegas, but due to legal proceedings now appearing under the name Derek Diamond, this former cruise ship entertainer is now the owner / manager of The Razzle Working Man's Club along with his wife Debbie Diamond. A reworking of the classic stage hypnotism routine.
Installation events
Christopher has been commissioned to create events for the V&A, The British Library, Tates Modern and Britain, the Barbican Art Gallery, the NPG, the Southbank Centre and The National Trust.
BBC Radio
In addition to 5 Tina C and 1 Ida Barr series, Christopher regularly makes bespoke pieces, including Encounter. Broadcast August 2013. A piece about grieving, surviving and fashion. A meditation on the life, creativity, loves and death of Yves Saint Laurent
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room. About Frida from Abba, love, loss and being a fan.
The Second Best Bed. A monologue about not having children starring Caroline Quentin.
None of the Above. A play about intersex people.
The End of the Pier. A couple whose relationship is in crisis take a walk to the end of Southend Pier.
Generation Electric. 80s pop music, fame, disappointment, and triumph.
TV & Film
Christopher Street: developed with Silver Fox Films and Tiger Aspect TV. Pilot being shot March 2014
Regina & Rex: a new double act, with glamour legend Rula Lenska playing Chris’ mother
In addition to Tina C’s series Yanky Panky, notable work includes script and song writing for Sesame Street, appearances in Horne & Corden, as well starring roles in films The Queen’s Sister (as Danny la Rue) and Henry 9 (as Prince Harry).
Music:
52 Fridays: Christopher is posting an original song every Friday of 2014 on Youtube.
If These Walls Could Speak: new singer-songwriter performance club – the serious side of musical entertainers - at the Komedia Theatre, Brighton starting May 2014 for Brighton Festival
Publishing:
Overpowered: published by British Library Publications, Christopher’s quirky, personal guide to the science and the showbiz of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Published Spring 2015.
“Christopher Green’s work is funny & intelligent” Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson from Abba
“His originality has always been fearless, even startling, but is increasingly warmed by a mature humanity.“
Libby Purves, Writer and Broadcaster
“Christopher Green’s Tina C is one of the great comic creations of the age. A genuinely fine country singer, but with a twist of satire and insight which is rare and highly to be prized.” Stephen Fry
“Working on a script by Christopher Green is as good as it gets. His writing is funny, insightful and has a delicacy that puts it in a class of it's own. His work is rather like the man himself, very funny and really rather beautiful “
Caroline Quentin
“I can't wait to see what Chris Green comes up with next.” Ian McKellen