Christopher John Fields is a Los Angeles-based director, teacher, and actor. He is the artistic director of the award-winning Echo Theater Company, a theatre he founded in 1997.
Early life
Fields was born in New York City in 1956 to Sidney and Dorthy Fields.
Film and television
Fields is known in Film for his work inZodiac, Fight Club, Apollo 13, The Game, Jurassic Park, Alien 3, Jacob's Ladder. He has appeared on TV in Sleepercell, ER, NYPD Blue, Boston Public, Ally McBeal and The Guardian. Directing work in film includes his adaptation of Neal Bell's Out the Window, and his short Sunnyslope, which was awarded Best New York Film at the New York Film and Video Festival and nominated for Best in Fest at the Great LakesFilm Festival.
Theatre
Fields has appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway and has numerous regional credits, among them: Golden Boy, All My Sons, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and 2.
Directing
Fields directed the premieres of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's "Bob", Gary Lennon's "A Family Thing", Jessica Goldberg's "Body Politic", Kate Robin's "What They Have" at South Coast Rep, Kate Robin's "Anon" at The Echo, Sarah Ruhl's "Melancholy Play", Paul Zimmerman's "Pigs and Bugs", and "Eat Me" by Jacqueline Wright, which was nominated for six LA Weekly Awards including Best Director and Ensemble. As a director, he's worked with and staged plays by Adam Rapp, Christopher Durang, David Lindsay-Abaire, Ellen McLaughlin, Napoleon Ellsworth, Padraic Duffy, Bernardo Solano, Deborah Pryor, Neal Bell, Kira Obolensky, Herman Daniel Farrell III, Quincy Long, and Karl Gajdusek, among many others. Chris produced the Echo production of Bryan Davidson's "War Music" at the Los Angeles Theater Center, which won three Ovation Awards including one for Best Premiere Play and one for Best Ensemble. Chris was founder and Artistic Director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference from 1996 to 2000. He was asked by the board to leave this position, after programming plays that were not "diverse ethnically."
