Chris Chalk
Actor. Director. Speaker. Coach.
Award-winning actor, director, coach, and speaker helping artists deepen craft, expand self-awareness, and unlock more truthful, powerful work.
Chris Chalk
Chris Chalk is an award winning actor, writer, and director working across film, television, and Theatre. He currently stars as Dick Hallorann in IT: Welcome to Derry, following acclaimed performances in Perry Mason as Paul Drake and as James Baldwin in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.
Television
Some television credits include The Newsroom, Homeland, When They See Us, Shining Girls, Underground, Gotham, and Sons of Anarchy.
Film
Some film work includes All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Detroit, The Red Sea Diving Resort, and the Academy Award–winning 12 Years a Slave.
Stage
On stage, Chalk appeared in Defiance at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Overwhelming at Roundabout Theatre Company, and Unconditional with LAByrinth Theater Company at The Public Theater. He later performed in Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Ruined and When I Come to Die at Lincoln Center Theater directed by Thomas Kail. He made his Broadway debut opposite Denzel Washington, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Viola Davis in August Wilson’s Fences, earning a Drama Desk nomination and winning a Theatre World Award.
As a director, Chris won Best First Feature for his film “Farewell” at the Bentonville Film Festival. Alongside his wife KD Chalk, he produces and develops original stories.
As a speaker and coach Chris has inspired artists and non-artists alike to build disciplined craft, emotional freedom, and fearless creative authority in their lives.
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Coaching & Mentorship with Chris Chalk
For actors ready to strengthen their craft, clarify their process, and build work they can rely on consistently.
Chris Chalk has spent more than twenty years coaching actors and artists in private studios, universities, and festival settings helping artists clarify their voice, strengthen their process, and develop approaches that support both their creative life and their professional path.
Drawing on his experience as an actor, director, audition reader, and teacher, he works collaboratively with artists to help them think more independently and trust how they work.
Some actors come for clarity around a specific moment.
Others come because they’re ready to change their relationship to the work entirely.
Either Way, Welcome.
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