Christopher Bohan

Associate Teacher

Chris is an instructor of acting at Case Western Reserve University and works as an Equity actor in the Cleveland area. In September 2019, he played opposite venerable stage and film actor Austin Pendleton in Glengarry Glen Ross at The Beck Center. Since 2016, Chris has been touring his one person show How to Be a Respectable Junkie - the true story of a man from Northeast Ohio who is a recovered heroin addict. He is a founding member of Cleveland’s longest running improvisational comedy company, Something Dada.

Chris earned his MFA in Performance from Wayne State University, where he had the opportunity to travel to Russia to study at the Moscow Art Theater School. He is a graduate of Saint Ignatius and Lehigh University and a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. In 2017, he was voted Best Actor/non-musical by the Cleveland Critic's Circle for his work in The Flick (Sam) and How to Be a Respectable Junkie (Brian) and in 2019 the CCC awarded him an Honorable Mention for is work in Glengarry Glen Ross (Richard Roma).

Favorite roles include: Mamai Theater Company - ARCADIA as Bernard Nightengale, Beck Center - THE PITMEN PAINTERS as Oliver Kilbourn, Great Lakes Theater - HAMLET  as Reynaldo. Previous Dobama roles include: Sherlock/Watson in THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS, Sam in THE  FLICK, Black Stache in PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, Sterling in SLOWGIRL and Curtis in THE LYONS.