CHRISTOPHER MCELROEN is an award-winning New York based producer and director. His current projects include:
INVISIBLE MAN
In collaboration with Academy Award nominee Oren Jacoby and novelist, scholar and Ralph Ellison literary executor John F. Callahan, Christopher is developing the world premiere stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison's prolific novel INVISIBLE MAN.
INVISIBLE MAN premiered at The Court Theatre in Chicago, January 12, 2012 running through February 19, 2012.
INVISIBLE MAN will begin performances at The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC on September 5, 2012 and at The Huntington Theatre in Boston on January 4, 2013.
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INVISIBLE MAN has received developmental support of The Court Theatre, The University of Chicago, The August Wilson Center, Pace University, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of Iowa, New York University and New York Theatre Workshop.
CHAOS MANOR: THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT
In collabroation with Sam Stephenson, author of the acclaimed book and co-producer of WNYC's public radio series The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965, and Brigid Hughes, founder and editor of the Brooklyn journal, A Public Space, Christopher is developing a live stage event based on The Jazz Loft Project.
Workshop performances were held in Brooklyn at The Invisible Dog Arts Center September 16 - 17, 2011.
The project will be further developed in 2012 with a premiere scheduled in Chicago for early 2013.
LIVING IN EXILE
Jonathan Lipsky's LIVING IN EXILE is a three character retelling of Homer’s The Iliad interpreted through the perspective of present day America's involvement in foreign wars. EXILE is a work of confrontation and radical intimacy, and is staged in private living rooms for no more than twenty people a night. The production involves live performance, live and pre-recorded video, and audience interaction. The play takes place simultaneously in the room, on television and on your cell-phone.
The production premiered at The Public Theatre's Under the Radar Festival in NYC January 5 - 16, 2011 and will tour New England in April 2012 before returning to NYC. The production has also been invited to the 2013 Performance Arcade Festival in Wellington New Zealand.
WAITING FOR GODOT at MOMA
The archives from the site specific post-Katrina inspired production of WAITING FOR GODOT directed by Christopher McElroen in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans have been acquired into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Exhibit on display at MOMA June 30, 2010 - September 12, 2011.
In addition, both the New Orleans production and the National Tour of WAITING FOR GODOT will be featured at The 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, June 16 – 26, 2011. The Prague Quadrennial is the world’s largest international exposition for theatre design. Often compared to the Venice Biennale, the PQ draws as many as 60 countries from around the world to participate in a celebration of the scenography, lighting, costume, and sound design accomplishments of the previous four years.