Christian Scheider

Christian Scheider
File:Christian Scheider At Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos, Premiere at the Parrish Art Museum.jpg Christian Scheider At Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos, Premiere at the Parrish Art Museum
Born	Christian Verrier Scheider (1990-01-20) January 20, 1990 New York, New York, USA
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Bard College
Occupation	Actor, Writer, Director

Christian Scheider (born January 20, 1990) is an American director and actor. He is the son of Roy Scheider.

Education

Scheider is a graduate of Bard College, where he received a B.A. in Philosophy and studied theater. Scheider also attended the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Born in New York City and raised on the east end of Long Island, Christian Scheider graduated from Bard College in 2012 with a degree in Philosophy, where he worked for three years as a peer and tutor in the Bard Prison Initiative, which offers B.A. and A.A. degrees to inmates serving terms in maximum security prisons. Also while at Bard, Scheider studied filmmaking and performed in many theatrical productions.

Actor

Acting in film, Scheider performed in Words and Pictures directed by Fred Schepisi opposite Clive Owen and Juliet Binoche, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. as was released nationally in 2014. On stage in 2015, Scheider performed in the two-man play RED by John Logan at Guild Hall with Victor Slezak as Mark Rothko. On television, Scheider guest starred on ABC’s primetime hit series Forever starring Ioan Gruffudd.

Director

Creating work for theater, Scheider has primarily produced original adaptations of American literature for the stage. In 2013, with the endorsement from his estate, Scheider co-adapted Ray Bradbury’s The Murderer with frequent collaborator Tucker Marder.

In 2014, Scheider and Marder were commissioned by the Parrish Art Museum to adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Galápagos with endorsement from the Vonnegut estate. The production featured a three-story set, a live orchestra, puppets, video and a twenty-six person cast including Oscar-nominee Bob Balaban.

In film, Scheider’s first documentary, A Dream Conferred about progressive education in Long Island, won the Youth Jury Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2005. Scheider has since co-produced and co-edited the films In My Hands and The Marfan Question, both commissioned in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Medical Center for their first-of-it’s-kind multi-media outreach program for people with Marfan syndrome.

Filmography

• Words and Pictures (2013)
• In My Hands (2012)
• The Marfan Question (2013)
• Forever (2015)