Chris is a globally recognized spoken word artist, an Emmy-winning journalist, and a filmmaker from Cleveland, Ohio.
From 2015 to 2020 he toured with the world’s largest spoken word tour, Poets in Autumn, where he performed original pieces annually for 50 U.S. cities and international dates, including London, Kenya, and the Caribbean. From 2020 to 2025 he joined WKYC 3 to document powerful perspectives from Cleveland’s marginalized and emerging communities, ultimately earning a 2021 Emmy.
As a filmmaker, Chris has been featured on MTV, BET, and the Tribeca Film Institute among others. He is a Cleveland School of the Arts graduate and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland before earning his degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.
As an ad director, Chris has produced work for the White House, the Essence Festival, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the National Civil Rights Museum, and other local and national vendors. His ad work has earned Telly, Webby, and Promax recognition.
As a storyteller, Chris’s one-person show, “The End of Black Excellence,” premiered at the Cleveland Public Theatre in 2025 to sold out shows and overwhelmingly positive feedback. The show toured nationally during the summer of 2026 with dates including the Black Creator’s Summit in Los Angeles, and the Contemporary American Theater Festival in West Virginia.