Chris Klimek

Born in Topeka, Kansas but taught to fear Jesus in the Northern Virginia suburbs, I quit the East Coast after college for a stay in Ventura, California, where I wrote for an alt-weekly. After earning a screenwriting degree from UCLA, I worked for a magician for a while, but was eventually seduced back east. My writing appears in The Washington City Paper, NPR, The Washington Post, and The Village Voice. I've written for Slate, The Guardian, PASTE and The Indian Express, and I was a contributor to the best film criticism site, The Dissolve, until its demise in 2015. I teach boxing. Orson Welles is my hero. Loves: running, comic books, thunderstorms, old time radio drama, live drums. Hates: treadmills, reality TV, Auto-Tune. I was a 2009 NEA Institute Fellow, and a 2012/2017 AltWeekly Awards finalist in the category of Arts Criticism, circulation 50,000 and above. In 2015, I was selected as a Critic Fellow for the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Critics Institute.