Biography

Christopher Cherry has a passion for helping performers achieve their full potential by using the
Alexander Technique to increase their freedom and skill. Whether he's giving individual lessons
backstage at Lincoln Center or helping an airborne actor to sing in Sidney Harman Hall, Chris is endlessly
enthusiastic about helping talented artists learn to get out of their own way.

Chris is a charter faculty member of the graduate acting program established by Michael Kahn at the
Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he has taught every student in the history of the program. He
has also taught master classes at Washington National Opera, Center Stage, Perseverance Theatre, and
the University of Maryland/Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, as well as semester-length courses at
Manhattanville College and Catholic University. After more than twenty-five years, he is still as excited
about teaching as he was on his first day.

In addition to teaching the Alexander Technique, Chris is the performing arts coordinator for the historic
New Deal city of Greenbelt, Maryland, where he oversees performing arts classes and camps that
culminate in public performances throughout the year. He is the proud recipient of a Mentor Man cape
from participants in the annual Greenbelt Youth Musical, which he founded.

An active playwright, composer, lyricist, and director, Chris has directed more than 150 musical theater
productions, including many productions of his own musicals, among them Buried Treasure, Secret
Circus, Perseus And The Gorgon, and The Joy Gods Return. His next production, slated for March 2026,
is The School For Super-Heroes Presents Orlando Furioso, The Musical.

Chris earned his certification from the American Society for the Alexander Technique in 1998, after
completing a rigorous 1600-hour teacher training program. He is deeply grateful for the master
teachers who have mentored him, including Marian Goldberg, Joan and Alex Murray, Rose Bronec, John
Nicholls, Nanette Walsh, and Tom Vasiliades.

A graduate of the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia School of Law, Chris is
admitted to the bar in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia -- and he is delighted not to
practice law.