Chris Mantione

“Love the art in you, not the you in art” - Stanislavski


Chris Mantione

 

 

Acting Experience

Off-Broadway

Lady of Fadima Billy ASDS Repertory Season Director: Evan F. Caccioppoli

Pizza Man ASDS Repertory Season Director: Mengxuan Zhou

Regional Theatre

Romeo & Juliet  Paris   Missouri Street Theatre, Fairfield, Ca   Director: Carla Spindt

A Christmas Carol Jacob Marley Solano Repertory Theatre Company Director: Carla Spindt*

Three Musketeers Cardinal Richelieu Solano College Theatre Director: Edward Hightower

Edward II Mortimer Butterfield 8 Theatre Company Director: Edwin Peabody

Lady Windermeres Fan Mr. Dumby Butterfield 8 Theatre company Director: John Butterfield

Twelfth Night Orsino Butterfield 8 Theatre Company Director: John Butterfield

Evil Dead: The Musical Scott The Willows Theatre Company Director: Jon Tracy

Wait Until Dark Sgt. Carlino Solano College Theatre Director: Hector Correa

1776 George Read The Willows Theatre Company Director: Rich Elliot

Into the Woods Mysterious Man Playcrafters of Skippack  Director: Charlie Bendas

 

Stage Combat Experience

Butterfield 8 Theatre Company The Women Combat Choreographer

Butterfield 8 Theatre Company Hamlet Combat Choreographer

Butterfield 8 Theatre Company Swords & Sonnets Combat Choreographer

Armijo High School Get Smart Combat Choreographer

The Willows Theatre Company The Texas Chainsaw Musical Combat Choreographer

Bay Area Stage True West Combat Choreographer

 

Other Experience

Six Flags: Discovery Kingdom Fright Fest Zombie 2012 & 2013

Performed as a haunted house zombie in 2012 and as a free roaming zombie on stilts in 2013.

Performed the role of the zombie for the Halloween season.

 

The Willows Theatre Company Stage Combat Instructor 2009

Instruct Willows Theatre Summer Camp students in unarmed theatrical combat. Students age ranged from 13-15 years old. Typical class included: Basic tumbling to get them used to moving in ways that they normally wouldn't. Instruction in napping (how to make the sound as if they were actually hit). And instruction in safely throwing a punch or a kick for the stage.

 

Education

Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University 2014-2017 MFA in Acting.  

Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavski Summer School 2013 Certificate Earned

University of California, Davis 2008-2010 BA in Dramatic Art

 

Solano County Community College 2004-2008 AA in Theatre, AA in Liberal Arts, Certificate Earned: Actor Training Program

 

Skills

Stage combat: hand to hand, single rapier, rapier and dagger. Dialects: Southern American, British, German, Russian. Judo. Able to walk in drywall stilts.