Hand to God
Director
Left Edge Theatre · MTJA Outstanding Comedy Production / Best Director
03 / Directing & producing
Make the machinery disappear.
Directing, producing and organisational leadership built around a simple proposition: rigorous structures should give artists more freedom, not less.
2005—2016 · California
Narrow Way
Stage Company
An independent theatre company built from the ground up.
Chris led artistic planning, season development, budgeting, fundraising, casting, marketing, front of house, production delivery and governance—often in spaces that had to be transformed into theatres. The company worked at venues including the Glaser Center, Spreckels Performing Arts Center and Sonoma Arts Live.
40+plays & events
15directed
11seasons led
Selected record
Direction & leadership
Little Shop of Horrors
Director
Narrow Way Stage Company · Sonoma Theatre Alliance, 2014
The Lonesome West
Director
6th Street Playhouse / Narrow Way Stage Company, 2014
The Dog Problem
Director
Narrow Way Stage Company
The Sudden and Accidental Re-education of Horse Johnson
Director
Narrow Way Stage Company
Narrow Way Stage Company
Founder / Artistic & Executive Director / Board President
Forty-plus productions and events across eleven years
Sonoma Arts Live
Founding transition leadership
Multi-company merger and organisational formation
Directing practice
Clarity creates permission.
Begin with action
Find what each person is doing to another person. Let interpretation emerge from playable behaviour.
Protect the ensemble
Build a room in which specificity, disagreement and experiment can coexist without fear.
Design the conditions
Align schedule, resources, language and responsibility so attention can remain on the work.
“Crisp direction by Chris Ginesi.”
North Bay Stage and Screen · Hand to God
Directing enquiries
Available for productions, new-work development, workshops and artist-led organisational projects.
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