Christopher Wallenberg Email & Phone Number

New York, New York

• Arts and entertainment contributing writer to The Boston Globe, Playbill magazine, Playbill.com, and American Theatre magazine, specializing in film and theater reporting/writing.
• Research, report and write preview stories, profiles, trend pieces, and essays on major new films, plays and musicals, including profiles of major actors, directors and writers.
• Contribute regularly to Playbill.com’s Stage to Screens column. Have also written features for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, and New York Press, as well as reviews for.
• Closely monitor the latest industry news on upcoming film and theater productions and the latest from the film festival scene. Follow trends and ideas in the worlds of film, theater, and television. Develop.
• Awarded American Theatre magazine’s Affiliated Writers grant from the Jerome Foundation, geared towards professional arts writers and designed to stimulate high quality cultural reporting, feature writing and theater.
• Filled in as freelance Features Editor at BlackBook magazine (July/August 2010). Top and line edited all features, FOB, and departments, accounting for copy flow, readability, style, and voice. Collaborated with.

New York, New York

• Research and fact check cover stories, features, news, and departments for major national magazines.
• Collaborate with section editors and copy department to ensure the accuracy of all factual details in articles. Conduct additional reporting when necessary.
• TV Guide magazine (April 2010-present)
• Vogue magazine (July 2007-March 2010)
• Copy edit and research all articles at ON DIRECTV / ACCESS DIRECTV magazine (July 2005-April 2007)

Greater Boston Area

• Managed five-person editorial, production and art team for Playbill, the Boston edition of the Broadway theater guide (200,000 monthly circ.); Panorama: The Official Guide to Boston, a bi-weekly tourist guide to the.
• Conceived and wrote at least one new feature per month for Playbill, including dozens of profiles of actors, directors and playwrights, and preview stories on upcoming theater productions. Wrote long- form features on.
• Generated story ideas and edited one to two features each month in Panorama in conjunction with the associate editor, as well as monthly columns and “Panorama’s Picks.” Service features included “15 Best Bets for.
• Developed, reported and wrote new local theater news and notes col- umn, “Backstage,” and expand local theatre coverage in Playbill. Scooped the city’s dailies on several theater news stories.
• Revamped the editorial focus of Panorama to create quicker-read features with more bite-sized, articles and expanded entry points in keeping with the magazine’s mission as a “put it in your pocket” guide.
• Conceived and instituted new columns for Panorama, including “Boston Confidential” and “Proper Bostonians.”