About

Christopher Gurr has been an actor, director, and teacher for over thirty-five years working in television, on Broadway, on national tours, and in regional theatre from California to Maine. 

Born and raised in southwest Georgia, he trained at Webster University in St. Louis, began his career in Chicago, then worked all across the country while first being based in Santa Cruz, California then Harlan County, Kentucky. After four years touring North America in Monty Python’s Spamalot, he moved to New York City at the age at the age forty-five.

Why not?

Three years and one more national tour later he made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning play, All The Way, starring Bryan Cranston. 

In the four seasons following, he appeared in four Broadway musicals: Amazing Grace, Kinky Boots, Tuck Everlasting, and the revival of Cats, directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler. His latest and sixth Broadway credit is the 2023 Tony Award-winning revival of Parade, starring Ben Platt and Mikaela Diamond.

He made his first television appearance on Madam Secretary (CBS). He has since appeared on Soul Santa (BET+), The Gilded Age (HBO), The Good Fight (Paramount+), and five episodes on The Blacklist (NBC) as Godwin Page. His latest TV appearance is a six-episode arc as Marius in A Murder at the End of the World (FX/Hulu).

Often called on to lead workshops and master classes, his students and private coaching practice clients can be found working in movies, television, on Broadway, and in theaters from coast to coast.

When not working, he can most likely be found on the road or on a trail, headed into the woods.