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Chris Kipiniak

CHRIS KIPINIAK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Chris Kipiniak is an actor and writer in New York city. He was born and raised in New Jersey, and studied Theater and English at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. While at Northwestern, his play Canvas Void won a contest run by a student company and was given a (and his first) full production of a play. Since then he has worked mostly as an actor, performing on Broadway, off-broadway, internationally and regionally in shows such as Mary Zimmerman's Tony-Award winning Metamorphoses, Macbeth with Alan Cumming, and How to Act Around Cops in London; in TV and Film in projects including Delocated, The Good Wife, the feature The Poker Club, the horror short, Deal Travis In. He has made multiple appearances in the web series, Real Actors Read . . ., and currently works as an audiobook narrator with Audible.com. At the same time, he has continued to write, for the theater as well as for other media, including film, television, and comic books. His first play produced in New York was Stalled, in which he also appeared as an actor, and which later was produced at the Hangar Theater as part of the Drama League Directing Fellowship. Save The World was produced by the Roundtable Ensemble in New York City. He has written a few plays for children, commissioned by the McCarter Theater in Princeton, as well as short plays performed by the Horse Trade Theater Group. He wrote and starred in the short film Trying, is a published travel writer, and his comic book work includes multiple works for Marvel Comics including the limited series Nightcrawler, a short story in the anthology Amazing Fantasy, and issues of Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man.

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         All Thats Left         Big Search, The         Change the Be         Doppelganger         Drowning         For the First Time, Together Again         Iiiinsaaaaaaaane!         Judges Wife, The         Nature Of the Beast         Nature of the Beast, The         Pass The Buck         Save the World         Stalled         Ta-Da

All Thats Left

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Book and Lyrics by Chris Kipiniak. Music and Lyrics by Masi Asare

1st Produced:
Raw Impressions, New York, NY as part of RIMT 13    2003

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short musical

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Big Search, The

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1st Produced:
Middleground Theater, Middlebury, VT    2000

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Change the Be

Synopsis:
part of the Drafts Fest a the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to the Drafts and their invited Guests based on this year's theme, Pre-existing Condition.
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The Drafts Fest for 2010 is the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this years theme, Pre-Existing Condition. All of the playwrights who participated in the Pre-Existing Condition Draft's Fest were given the theme and two or three cast members before they started to write. They had one month to complete their short piece which was limited to ten minutes. Many of the playwrights met with their director and actors during the writing process in order to get to know the actors better. All of the actors "auditioned" for the playwrights, with one comedic and one dramatic monologue as well as a special skill, fact, or story they wanted to share about themselves. In this way, the playwrights grew to have some understanding of the actors' 'types' prior to writing. The theme taken from our health care vocabulary inspired a variety of writing, from pests and childhood emotional scars, to futuristic realities and poverty. Overall, we generated some exciting new work, some of which have been developed into full length plays.

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the Drafts

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in "Pre-Existing Condition", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Genre:
short piece

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Doppelganger

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Drowning

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Book and Lyrics by Chris Kipiniak. Music composed by Peter Yarin

1st Produced:
Raw Impressions, New York, NY as part of RIMT 16    2005

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Genre:
short musical

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For the First Time, Together Again

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1st Produced:
McCarter Theaters First Stage Company, Princeton, NJ    2007

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Iiiinsaaaaaaaane!

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part of the Draft's 10 Minute Play Festival: Six Plays About Hope

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in "Six Plays About Hope", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Ten Min

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Judges Wife, The

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Book and Lyrics by Chris Kipiniak. Music and Lyrics by Masi Asare

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-    2004

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Genre:
short musical

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Nature Of the Beast

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Nature of the Beast, The

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Pass The Buck

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1st Produced:
McCarter Theaters First Stage Company, Princeton, NJ    2006

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Save the World

Synopsis:
the world is in crisis. Without warning, a series of disasters have erupted across the planet and the members of the superhero team the Protectorate have scattered to respond. as the heroes get their respective crises under control, their leader orders them to regroup. the disasters are not natural. Something is causing them. But what? Or. . .who?
press release

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1st Produced:
American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    2008

Organisations:
Roundtable ensemble

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Genre:
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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Stalled

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1st Produced:
Horse Trade Theater Group, New York, NY    2000

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Stalled Productions

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Ta-Da

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1st Produced:
-    2010

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