"The Nest"
Directed by Marcia Haufrecht
Written by the German playwrite, Franz Xaver Kroetz, and directed by the Actor's Studio's Marcia Haufrecht. This 2 character play deals with the struggles of a young middle class couple as they are awakened from a life of blind acceptance and complacency when a tragedy befalls their family.
Chris plays "Kurt", a truck driver who finds himself unknowingly asked to compromise his values and the lives of his new family.
The play was performed at the Mint Theater in New York City this past summer.
Chris appears as "The Guy", a mathematician who is attempting speed-dating for the 11th time, in the comedy "Hurry" by Bridget Carpenter, - ‘speed dating for finicky urban professionals’ - and the combustible and zany encounters one could easily imagine from such a desperate endeavor - until a surprising and sad fact is revealed from the woman’s past, which gives the whole proceeding a surprising depth.
Produced by Arthur Finn and City Actors Theater Company
Directed by Stephan Morrow
City Actors Theatre Company presents
"Split Ends - Then & Now"
An Evening Of Three One-Acts:
"Hello From Bertha" by Tennessee Williams
"The Man Who Couldn't Dance" by Jason Katims
"Hurry"
by Bridget Carpenter
by Bridget CarpenterDirected by Stephan Morrow Producer: Arthur Finn
featuring:
*Nick Basta Sue Coleman Christopher Kerson
Sue Coleman Christopher KersonDonna Blaszczyk *Bernie DeLeo Louise Martin
*Laura Butler *Cristina Doikos Delio Pacifici
Fri. - Tues. Dec. 2 - 6 2005 8pm @ the
Blue Heron Arts Center
(123 E. 24th St. btwn. Lex & Park)
www.blueheron-nyc.org
*appearing courtesy of Actors Equity
Tickets: Suggested donation $15.00
Reservations (suggested): (917) 658-8741
"Hurry"
Directed by Stephan Morrow
"Within the Skins of Saints"
directed by Robert Haufrecht
The 2006 Samuel French Play Festival
& The Dream Theatre
presents:
a play by Mark Borkowski
with Andrea Leigh & Chris Kerson
Tuesday, May 30th 9:30 pm
The Chernuchin Theatre
314 W. 54th. Street
"A Bright Room Called Day"
directed by Stephan Morrow
Taking place from 1932 - 33 in Berlin, it covers the period of the rise of the Nazis and the demise of democracy, culminating with the Reichstag fire. From then on, civil liberties were crushed, the Communist party outlawed, and the first concentration camps set up. Six friends - bohemians, artists, Marxists, try to save their souls, and their lives during this tumultuous time. When first presented twenty years ago, during the Regan years, it seemed to some far fetched to compare that period to today, but now, in the uneasy times in which we live, when there is widespread concern about civil liberties, wiretapping, foreign invasion, it has morphed into nothing less than a stunning tribute to Kushner’s prescience, with the Weimar Republic standing as a frighteningly accurate metaphor for the state of things today.
Director Stephan Morrow has reassembled some of the members of the original N.Y. cast together with other seasoned N.Y. stage actors, and Living Theater icon Judith Malina. Not seen professionally in N.Y. for over fifteen years, the play is growing more relevant with each passing day. Come join us for an evening of theater that is both powerful and extraordinarily relevant.
The Cast includes Judith Malina, Joan MacIntosh, Angelica Torn, Henry Stram, Larry Block, Anya Migdal, Alexandra Eitel, Chris Kerson, Jody Carter, Jason Howard and Hanon Reznikov.
Monday May 8. 7 PM. Free. Barnes And Noble @ Union Square (17st.)
"Insult to Injury"
Directed by Burke Roberts
SCREENING IN
LOS ANGELES ON JULY 15, 2006
ATTENDANCE IS EXPECTED TO BE BETWEEN
1000-3000 PEOPLE
THE FILM HAS RECEIVED GREAT RESPONSE IN LONDON AND PARIS.
IT WILL ALSO BE SCREENING IN SPAIN SOON.
This dark and intense film deals with fanaticism and racism as it effects its two central characters, Job and Percival. The film takes place in the 1930's during The Great Depression. Burke Roberts directs and co-authors this film. This is the second time Chris and Burke worked together. Burke's first film with Chris, "Jesus Rides Shotgun" was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
Chris will also receive an associate producer credit for the film due to his involvement from the beginning and for bringing executive producer Omar Jermaine (who co-stars in the film) and Burke together.
The film is currently being released to film festivals and has been screened in Los Angeles as well as all over Europe including at The Cannes Film Festival.
To view clips from the film, go to Film Reel page.
Click for more information on Burke Roberts and his films.
Mark Borkowski’s “DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE” was selected to be published by Smith and Kraus. It will be in their anthology of "The Best Short Plays of 2006". They say it will be out the beginning of 2007.
The credits will read as follows:
Production History
"Don’t Listen To What It Sounds Like" was originally produced at Tribeca Lab in New York City under the direction of Randy Cherkas with the following cast:
Floyd….. …Edmond Wilkinson
Gretchen…. Laura Fay Lewis
"Don’t Listen To What It Sounds Like" was recently produced at The American Globe Theatre in New York City under the direction of Robert Haufrecht with the following cast:
Floyd…. …Chris Kerson
Gretchen…Suzette Azariah Gunn
Dear Friends,
You won’t want to miss this.
Mr. Norman Mailer, who has just had his latest book published, “The Castle in the Forest” (about Hitler as a child), is scheduled to attend this ‘special-event performance on book’ of his play.
The Great American Play Series
and
The Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92St.Y
present a staged reading of:
Norman Mailer’s The Deer Park
directed by Stephan Morrow
with : Justin Adams, Larry Block, Larry Pine, Delphi Harrington, Christopher Kerson/Shyam, Jason Howard, Sonia Ohara,
Jezabel Montero, Nic Tyler, Fulvia Vergel, Judith Jerome et al.
A trip to Purgatory morphed into Palm Springs of the 50’s where denizens of the film colony go about their trials and tribulations. A down and out film director who is short on cash and long on integrity falls in love with a Carmen, but one who is full of hurts. She goes off with an edgy but younger character who is not above setting up men with women for a price - but when her ex-lover director saves her from the brink of suicide, they end up settling down to a less than satisfying luxurious suburban life-style. They argue, he suffers a heart attack and dies. So goes life in the film capital. Or Purgatory - as the souls therein look for their salvation. Hard-ball, hard-core Hollywood of the fifties - a stand-in for all the towns in all the world….
Sunday March 25, 2007. One night Only! 7PM. Tickets $ 15 . Student and Senior discounts. Makor / Steinhardt Center 35 West 67St. (btwn Columbus and CPW) for reservations call 212-601-1000 or 212-415-5500
Dear Friends,
There's 3-weeks left with the final show being April 3rd.
You can read a glowing initial review from Martin Denton, (click here), Pieces of Paradise - Four by Tennessee, or stories about the theater (see attachment NY Daily News Article), or as recently covered by renowned theater critic, Jerry Tallmer, which talks about the significance of these pieces and of the significance of The 13th Street Rep., (click here) Tennessee to the rescue of 13th Street Rep.
And for the final 3-weeks stepping in to play the young boxer in "The Palooka", will be the very talented Dan Simon of the Rodger Hendricks Simon Studio.
You can see, by clicking here, "These are the Stairs You Gotta' Watch"
Thanks,
-- Chris
Christopher B. Kerson
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Recently completed the film "Open", directed by Satish More.
"Open is a story about profound yet simple lessons that life offers through our natural environment, and how those lessons can be perceived by one who seeks them." Link
I play Alan Ritter, a real estate agent who was the one-time best friend of Jack, our protagonist. Their realtionship is estranged as Jack slips into depression and continuous misfortune. Eventually, Jack pushes Alan away and then later tries to reconcile the relationship.
The film will be submitted to Festivals in September-October 2008.
Also had a lead in Ron Massucci's "2 Star State of Mind", a Independent feature in which I play Brian, a co-worker of our protagonist, Steve, who feigns an English accent to get ahead in life, and eventually romances away Steve's girlfriend -- a white collar bad guy in a very unique film. It is being produced by "Good Bye Blue Monday Productions"
