What’s been going on

2024: Returns to NYC to serve as Playwrights Realm’s Executive Director

2024: Playwrights Realm Appoints Chris Berry as Executive Director

2023-24: First producing season at Penumbra in St. Paul

New Leadership at Penumbra Center for Racial Healing

2023: Directs Re-Memori by Nambi E. Kelley

Star Tribune Review of Re-Memori

Critic Names Top 10 Theatre Productions of 2023 “Re-Memori" at Penumbra: “Shá Cage gave a brilliant performance in Nambi E. Kelley's lyrical solo show about a hairdresser who heals through hands and words. With a poetic narrative that twisted the past and the present like plaits, the production was a triumphant debut for Penumbra arts director Chris Berry.” - Rohan Preston

2023: As co-authors Chris Berry and Korinn Annette Jeffries's chapter proposal entitled North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University: Pedagogy, Accreditation, and Innovation in the Face of Historic Inequities has been accepted into the book A Cultural Experience: The Role of Theatre at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

2020: As Vice President and conference planner of the Black Theatre Network, Chris planned the first-ever virtual convening of Black Theatre Week. Here is the video from the conversation with Dominique Morisseau and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, moderated by Professor Michael Dinwiddle.

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