Christopher Gurr

Christopher Gurr hehimhis is an American actor and director known for playing a vast range of roles on Broadway and in theaters across the United States as well as the more readily accessible reaches of Canada He was born in the Deep South educated in the Midwest ripened by the sun and sea of California and matured in the mountains of Appalachia before making his home in New York City Gurr starred as Bustopher Jones and Gus the cat at the theatre door in the Broadway revival of Cats at the Neil Simon Theatre In that same theater he made his Broadway debut playing Senator Strom Thurmond opposite Byran Cranstons LBJ in the Tony Awardwinning play All The Way Between that notorious Dixiecrat and cats both fat and thin Gurr has been seen on Broadway as among other things a villainous fop and a hardnosed sea captain Amazing Grace a factory owner and his fastidious foreman two different stints in Kinky Boots and a very very strange man in a yellow suit Tuck Everlasting Recent OffBroadway and regional productions featured Gurr in Marie Dancing Still at Seattles 5th Avenue Theatre the world premiere of The Sting opposite Harry Connick Jr at The Paper Mill Playhouse Titanic and Oklahoma at Pittsburghs Civic Light Opera and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Classic Stage Company in New York City opposite Raúl Esparza Gurr made his commercial theatre debut in the first national tour of the Tony Awardwinning musical Monty Pythons Spamalot Sometimes as Mrs Galahad and Sir Bedevere sometimes as King Arthur he performed all over North America for the better part of four years His next first national tour found Gurr playing seven different types of mean white cracker in the Tony Awardwinning musical Memphis Gurrs other roles include Hitler History of War Heisenberg Copenhagen Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry Getting The Band Back Together Uncle Ernie The Whos Tommy Ali Hakim Oklahoma Aldolpho The Drowsy Chaperone Geoffrey The Lion In Winter and Rutledge 1776 His directing projects include productions of Nine Camelot Heartbreak House Into The Woods Die Fledermaus Billy Bishop Goes To War Wesley Middletons Tomato Plant Girl James Stills Meet Me Incognito the world premiere of José Cruz Gonzáles Earth Songs and Guys Dolls In Concert with Jeff Tyzik and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and staged readings of many many new plays and musicals Gurr has served as artistic associate with Geva Theatre Center in Rochester NY The Theatre Building in Chicago and Metro Theater Company in St Louis He has taught with and designed curriculum for the internationally recognized education department of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival He graduated from and has served as guest director and faculty member at Webster Universitys Conservatory of Theatre Dance in St Louis Gurrs voiceover work has included distressed dads buttonedup bankers Boston Brahmins and backwoods bloviators to name a few