Christopher Cherry has a passion for helping performers achieve their full potential by using the Alexander Technique to increase their freedom and skill. Whether he’s giving individual lessons backstage at Lincoln Center or helping an airborne actor to sing in Sidney Harman Hall, Chris is endlessly enthusiastic about helping talented artists learn to get out of their own way. Chris is a charter faculty member of the graduate acting program established by Michael Kahn at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he has taught every student in the history of the program. He has also taught master classes at Washington National Opera, Center Stage, Perseverance Theatre, and the University of Maryland/Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, as well as semester-length courses at Manhattanville College and Catholic University.
In addition to teaching the Alexander Technique, Chris is the performing arts coordinator for the historic New Deal city of Greenbelt, Maryland, where he oversees performing arts classes and camps that culminate in public performances throughout the year. He is the proud recipient of a Mentor Man cape from participants in the annual Greenbelt Youth Musical, which he founded.
An active playwright, composer, lyricist, and director, Chris has directed more than 150 musical theater productions, including many productions of his own musicals, among them Buried Treasure, Secret Circus, Perseus And The Gorgon, and Homeward Bound. Chris earned his certification from the American Society for the Alexander Technique in 1998, after completing a rigorous 1600-hour teacher training program. A graduate of the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia School of Law, Chris is admitted to the bar in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia — and he is delighted not to practice law.