Chris Sullivan is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and director who tells funny stories about sad people. His history as a skateboarder and hardcore singer while also a soft theater kid helped him develop a specific sense of empathy he uses to write flawed, vulnerable characters yearning for connection in ridiculous ways.

His plays have been produced or developed around the world at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Flea, The Echo Theater, The Blank Theater, The Tank, NYU, Silent Barn, Tiny Rhino, ICA (London), Big Funk Company (Paris), and have been taught and produced at universities around the country such as UCSD.

He holds an MFA from the USC John Wells Writing for Screen and Television Division, and a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. He is a former member of The Echo Theater Playwrights LAB, and the Obie-Award winning playwrights group Youngblood. He is a winner of the Hudson Memorial Award, Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship, and his work has been recognized by Sundance, Austin Film Festival, Slamdance, and elsewhere.

His episodic series Guess I’m a Ghost was featured in over a dozen film festivals, including SeriesFest and the NYC Web Fest. He is currently developing scripted podcasts with Salt Audio, Breaking + Entering, and Everything Podcasts.