Chris Sullivan(I)
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Chris Sullivan is an award-winning Irish/British actor/writer/director.
He trained in both classical and modern theatre at The Birmingham
School of Speech Training & Dramatic Art and appeared in many leading
roles in the British repertory system, in plays by
William Shakespeare,
Ben Jonson,
John Arden,
Alan Ayckbourn,
Neil Simon and others, before
creating the role, to terrific national reviews, of "David" in the
Brian Croucher-directed,
Glenn Chandler controversial play, "A
Treat", at London's Soho Poly Theatre: the West End's number one fringe
venue. He didn't start his working life as an actor; before going to
drama school, Chris had "the best job of his life" as a motor cyclist
delivering telegrams for the post office in Birmingham, England and
went on to stints as a fairground worker in Scotland - collecting the
fares on the dodgem cars - a sales correspondent, a part time soldier
in the Special Air Service (TA) and a labourer at a very hot bakery in
Northamptonshire. In 1995, Chris decided to start again; he emigrated
to Los Angeles with ten dollars in his pocket and plans to further his
career and ended up doing a one-man Irish show - "A Bit of Irish" -
which lasted for ten years, on and off, playing at the Edinburgh
Festival, the Jermyn Street Theatre in London's West End, Santa Monica
Playhouse in California and various Irish Fairs and colleges in the USA
and provincial theatres in the UK. As well as penning two novels, Chris
writes a blog called "The Storyteller", which is read all over the
world which he describes as the ramblings of a Hollywood actor and
novice novelist.