Chris Coculuzzi has been producing, directing, performing, writing and educating in Toronto for twenty years. He was a co-founder and Artistic Producer of independent theatre company Upstart Crow Theatre Group from 1995-2005. From 2001-2005 he co-wrote and produced a series of five theatrical spectacles collectively called Shakespeare’s Sports Canon. The five plays are a hybrid of sports and environmental theatre that adapt the entire works of Shakespeare and premiered at the Toronto Fringe Festival and are featured with University of Guelph’s Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare project and University of Victoria’s Internet Shakespeare Editions. Other writing credits include an adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities and Cyrano de Bergerac with Roxanne Deans. Chris is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.