Christopher Stratton Email & Phone Number

Christopher Stratton is a queer, Dunedin born and bred graduate of Unitec Nz's School of Performing and Screen Arts with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts in Directing and Writing for Screen and Theatre (it really rolls off the tongue). It would be fair to call him a jack of all trades when it comes to the screen and theatre industries (if you ignore the camera department - he just can not work out the maths of it all). Currently relocated to London, he is available for work!2023 has thus far seen him design the cloaks for NZ's version of The Traitors, style, prop and appear in Two Hearts "Eurovusion" music video for Yeastie Boys, production design & style 2 Cents 2 Much for The Spinoff, production design season two of cooking reality competition show Snackmasters, prop/set style upcoming talk show Cubicle Confessions for TVNZ, along with a few commercial shoots along the way. And then relocate to the northern hemisphere. Whew. Across 2022 he engaged in some commercial production design work with FINCH for BNZ, Pedigree and ASB, designed the third season of Educators for TVNZ and the pilot for talk show "Tom Sainsbury's The Love Hour", toured to Edinburgh Fringe with Two Hearts (Laura Daniel x Joseph Moore), released a puzzle with Ensemble magazine, and propped the sketches for RNZ's The Citizen's Handbook. In 2021 he designed "The Pact" for Koha Productions x TVNZ, 2020 saw him as the Art Director for SPP/TVNZ series “Educators”, as well as Production Designer for SPP/Three’s Mean Mums and Set Decorator on ‘Head High', and finishing as the Set Decorator on the TVNZ series "Panthers". In 2019 he directed “Life is Easy” a TVNZ body swap web series, fully funded by Nz On Air that has had a 2020 release on international queer content platform Revry. He costumed Silo Theatre’s “The Wolves” and worked as costume & props designer, and stage manager for "Two Hearts, The Comeback Tour" in Edinburgh Fringe. Costume Styling highlights include Costume Assisting on feature film The Breaker Upperers (2018), styling Jacinda (Graduate theatre show for The Actors Program 2018) the Auckland University Summer Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (2016) at the Pop Up Globe in Auckland, Oreste (2016) a semi staged opera by Auckland Opera Studio. He has worked across several international TVC’s as stylist assist. He has several short and feature length scripts in development and is writing a novella that was meant to be finished before last Christmas and remains optimistic that it will be finished soon.

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  Hexwork Productions Nz

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  Unitec | Te Pūkenga

  Directing And Writing