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Salem, Oregon, United States
Chris Harris is currently Professor of Theatre and Resident Scene Designer at Willamette University, where he has been teaching for twenty-three years. Prior to that he taught at the University of Illinois-Chicago for seven years. Former President of the Oak Park Festival Theatre in Chicago, Chris Harris has designed over two hundred productions and his work has been seen in London, Toronto, New York, St. Louis, Chicago, and Portland, OR. Included in these are the American Professional Premieres of The Rover, Barnaby Sweet, The Sickness of Youth in Chicago, Father Dreams in St. Louis, and Picasso In The Back Seat in Portland. He received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Leeds in England. He was selected as an English Speaking Union scholar for theatre study in the U.S.A., receiving an M.F.A. in scene and costume design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.