Chris New

Chris New

History

CHRIS (Glen) trained at RADA and since graduating in 2006 has built up an impressive reputation for his stage work. He started opposite Alan Cumming in the 2006 revival of Martin Sherman’s iconic play ‘Bent’ for which he was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer. He then went on to work at the National Theatre, under the direction of Richard Eyre as well as The RSC, The Young Vic and London Sadler’s Wells. In 2009 he returned to the West End to star as Joe Orton in the stage adaptation of ‘Prick Up Your Ears’, and in 2010 made his New York debut leading the company of Peter Nichol’s ‘Lingua Franca’. He is soon to take the title role in Christopher Marlowe's Richard II at the Manchester Royal Exchange. 

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Chris New

Movies

Chicken
Chicken
Writer
RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their already precarious living conditions get even worse. Then a chance meeting with the new landowner's daughter, 17 year old ANNABEL (Yasmin Paige), leaves RICHARD besotted; whilst POLLY befriends the guys who run a seedy traveling fair. Richards optimistic view on life becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as Polly's abusive behavior worsens, family secrets are revealed, and he is torn between loyalty to his brother and his first true friend in ANNABEL. For better or worse, Richards life is about to change forever.
Weekend
Weekend
Glen
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Ticking
Ticking
Editor
In this psychological thriller, we dive into the mind of a middle-aged man named Norman who suffers from schizophrenia. Reality and unreality are in a constant battle within his mind. As the events unfold there is a glimpse of hope underneath his suffering.
Ticking
Ticking
Producer
In this psychological thriller, we dive into the mind of a middle-aged man named Norman who suffers from schizophrenia. Reality and unreality are in a constant battle within his mind. As the events unfold there is a glimpse of hope underneath his suffering.
Ticking
Ticking
Writer
In this psychological thriller, we dive into the mind of a middle-aged man named Norman who suffers from schizophrenia. Reality and unreality are in a constant battle within his mind. As the events unfold there is a glimpse of hope underneath his suffering.
Ticking
Ticking
Director
In this psychological thriller, we dive into the mind of a middle-aged man named Norman who suffers from schizophrenia. Reality and unreality are in a constant battle within his mind. As the events unfold there is a glimpse of hope underneath his suffering.
A Smallholding
A Smallholding
Writer
Two childhood sweethearts return to the rural nowhere of their haunted youth to rebuild their lives before they lose their child forever.
A Smallholding
A Smallholding
Director
Two childhood sweethearts return to the rural nowhere of their haunted youth to rebuild their lives before they lose their child forever.