Chris Wight

Chris Wight

Chris Wight (he/him) appeared as Dog in Flux’s acclaimed production of Dog Act, as well as in Hearts Like Fists and Rage Play. He is also a longtime artistic member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, where his many performances include the world premier of Tennessee Williams’ Spring Storm with Peter Sarsgaard, the NY premier of David Ives’ Lives of the Saints and the NYT Critic’s Pick Something Like Loneliness. There and elsewhere in NYC he’s performed in new works by acclaimed writers like Lucy Thurber, Cassandra Medley, Jen Silverman, Sheri Wilner, Rachel Bonds, Jeffrey Sweet, Robert Simonson, Arthur Giron, Jon Marans, Cheryl L. Davis, Julie Selbo, Egon Tobiáš, C. Quintana and many others. He has composed and performed original music for shows including Dog Act and Hearts Like Fists and for several short films, performing vocals, guitar, keys, bass, banjo, blues harp, washtub, on virtual turntables and with improvised instruments. Chris was Director of Development for SITI Company and has done development for TADA! Theater and Dance and EST; was manager of EST’s annual Summer Conference and the Under the Radar dance residency; is a former bookkeeper for WPP Theater, EST and other arts non-profits, and a former auditor for New York State Council on the Arts.