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Christopher John Fields (born September 23, 1968) is a Los Angeles-based director, teacher, and actor. He is the artistic director of the Echo Theater Company, which he founded in 1997.
Fields was born in New York City in 1968 to Sidney and Dorthy Fields.
Fields has appeared in films directed by David Fincher, including Zodiac , Fight Club , The Game and Alien 3 .
Fields has also appeared in the films Apollo 13 , Jurassic Park , Stargate and Jacob's Ladder . On TV, he appeared in Sleepercell , ER , NYPD Blue , Boston Public , Ally McBeal and The Guardian .
Fields has appeared on Broadway (Homefront), off-Broadway (Machinal at the Public, Aristocrats at Manhattan Theater Club, Orphans with Steppenwolf), and his regional credits include Golden Boy, All My Sons, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and 2.
His directing work in film includes his adaptation of Neal Bell's Out the Window, and his short Sunnyslope, which was awarded Best New York Film at the New York Film and Video Festival[ when? ] and was nominated for Best in Fest at the Great Lakes Film Festival.[ citation needed ]
Fields directed plays including Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Bob, Gary Lennon's A Family Thing, Jessica Goldberg's Body Politic (Ovation nominated), Kate Robin's What They Have at South Coast Rep, Kate Robin's Anon at The Echo, Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play, Paul Zimmerman's Pigs and Bugs, and Eat Me by Jacqueline Wright, which was nominated for six LA Weekly Awards including Best Director and Ensemble. As a director, he also staged plays by Adam Rapp, Christopher Durang, David Lindsay-Abaire, Ellen McLaughlin, Napoleon Ellsworth, Padraic Duffy, Bernardo Solano, Deborah Pryor, Neal Bell, Kira Obolensky, Herman Daniel Farrell III, Quincy Long, and Karl Gajdusek and others. Fields produced the Echo production of Bryan Davidson's War Music at the Los Angeles Theater Center, which won three Ovation Awards including one for Best Premiere Play and one for Best Ensemble.
Fields was founder and Artistic Director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference from 1996 to 2000. He was asked by the board to leave this position, after programming plays that were not "diverse ethnically". [1]
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