CHRIS CERASO is a playwright, screenwriter and actor, with wide experience across all traditional media. His plays have been performed in New York and regionally, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre (where he is an Ensemble Artist), Chester Theatre Company (Massachusetts), the Lincoln Center Institute, New York Theatre Workshop New Directors’ Festival, Cubiculo, The Lexington Conservatory Theater, Capital Repertory, among others, and have been published by Samuel French, Bloomsbury/Methuen, and Plays for Living. His play, Home Fires Burning, is also a film (The Turning) starring Karen Allen and Tess Harper. His award-winning documentary (Passing Over) has been seen on PBS stations across the country. He was a staff writer for NBC’s “Another World.” As an actor, he has performed in a wide range of new plays by such writers as Christopher Durang, Stephen Fechter, Arthur Giron, John Guare, Romulus Linney, David Mamet, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lanford Wilson, and in major classical and modern-classic roles from Moliere to Tennessee Williams (Capitol Rep), to Chekov (Hartford Stage) to Shaw (Caesar and Cleopatra with The Resonance Ensemble) and Shakespeare (Prospero and King Lear as an Equity Guest Artist). He has made several appearances on the Law and Order Franchise, and is featured in the independent film, Coach of the Year. Chris is also proud to serve on the full-time faculty of Drew University’s nationally recognized Department of Theatre and Dance.