Chris Verrill
For 30 years, Chris Verrill has been a producer, director and actor in over 100 stage, television and radio shows.
Former executive director of Beijing Playhouse—China’s English Broadway theatre, the largest locally produced English theatre in China.
- Theatre Executive Director
- TV/Radio Producer/Host
- Community Moderator/Organizer
- China Lecturer/Consultant
Chris Verrill
Nonprofit Theatre Director · Broadcaster · Educator
About Chris Verrill
Chris Verrill is a nonprofit theatre director who takes pride in volunteering to making his community a better place to live. He’s done program production and marketing for performing arts, educational television, public radio, international schools and Silicon Valley start-ups. He’s a scuba diver, poker player, board game enthusiast and world traveler. And he’s learning to kayak.
Portfolio Skills:
Practices Expertise Four Parts
Theatre Executive Director
Chris Verrill is a nonprofit theatre director who takes pride in working and volunteering in the arts and education to make his community a better place to live. For 30 years…
TV/Radio Producer/Host
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Verrill has worked at a dozen TV and radio stations doing marketing, fundraising, accounting, educational program production and program hosting…
Community Moderator/Organizer
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Bringing people who disagree together so we can all move forward is the focus of Chris Verrill’s community engagement. To that end, an in an attempt to return…
China Lecturer/Consultant
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Having spent 13 years managing a company in Beijing, Verrill lectures and consults about how to do business in China. And more importantly, how not to do business in…
Building a Strong Community Through Arts and Education.
Chris Verrill is a nonprofit theatre director who takes pride in working and volunteering in the arts and education to make his community a better place to live. Aside from a brief foray in Silicon Valley, he has spent his career doing non-profit work locally, nationally, and internationally.
In a quixotic attempt to do his small part to fight terrorism after September 11, he travelled on a mission to Afghanistan to build vocational education programs for women. He wrote Is For Good Men To Do Nothing, a book about volunteering for charitable organizations in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.
Volunteering on nonprofit boards has always been a part of Verrill’s purpose. He’s served on the board of directors of numerous different nonprofits or government agencies.
With the rancorous tumult in today’s politics, and with the dream of bringing people who disagree together so we can all move forward, he moderates the bipartisan political leadership group Independent Like Florida (www.independentlikeamerica.org). And here’s to hoping it plays a small part in positively returning common sense and civility back to the American discussion.
A Career of Helping Neighbors.
Theatre / Directing
With a career spent in nonprofit theatre, educational television and public radio, Verrill’s career and life have been spent helping neighbors. Whether that’s the neighbor on the other side of the street or the other side of this blue spinny thing we’re all on—we’re all in this together.
Public Media
As a theatre director, he’s done is part to bring beautiful and inspiring shows to audiences around the world. Directing and producing live theatre and then bringing overseas.
Childhood Education
As a public television development director, he’s done his part to make possible quality educational and artistic television programs like Sesame Street and Nature. The most balanced and in depth news in the world is PBS Newshour and NPR’s tentpole news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Verrill worked and volunteered at local stations to help make these high quality public media services possible.
Global / Philanthropic Work
He drove the teams that established two childhood education programs and went overseas and improved the professionalism of theatre and effectiveness and transparency of philanthropic practices.