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Christopher Stratton is a queer, Dunedin born and bred graduate of Unitec Nz's School of Performing and Screen Arts with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts in Directing and Writing for Screen and Theatre (it really rolls off the tongue). It would be fair to call him a jack of all trades when it comes to the screen and theatre industries (if you ignore the camera department - he just can not work out the maths of it all). 

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Currently relocated to London, he is available for work!

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2023 has thus far seen him design the cloaks for NZ's version of The Traitors, style, prop and appear in Two Hearts "Eurovusion" music video for Yeastie Boys, production design & style 2 Cents 2 Much for The Spinoff, production design season two of cooking reality competition show Snackmasters, prop/set style upcoming talk show Cubicle Confessions for TVNZ, along with a few commercial shoots along the way. And then relocate to the northern hemisphere. Whew. 

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Across 2022 he engaged in some commercial production design work with FINCH for BNZ, Pedigree and ASB, designed the third season of Educators for TVNZ, designed the pilot for talk show "Tom Sainsbury's The Love Hour", toured to Edinburgh Fringe with Two Hearts (Laura Daniel x Joseph Moore), released a puzzle with Ensemble magazine, and designed the sketches for RNZ's The Citizen's Handbook.  

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2021  "The Pact" for Koha Productions x TVNZ, 2020 saw him as the Art Director for SPP/TVNZ series “Educators”, as well as Production Designer for SPP/Three’s Mean Mums and Set Decorator on ‘Head High', and finishing as the Set Decorator on the upcoming TVNZ series "Panthers". 

 

In 2019 he directed “Life is Easy” a TVNZ body swap web series, fully funded by Nz On Air that has had a 2020 release on international queer content platform Revry. 

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2019 also saw him costume Silo Theatre’s “The Wolves” and in the UK as costume and props designer and stage manager for "Two Hearts, The Comeback Tour" - for a month long season in Edinburgh Fringe. Two Hearts is the live comedy project of Laura Daniel and Joseph Moore, and the Edinburgh season comes after their well received "The Winery Tour" in the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2019. He has worked in this capacity with the comedy duo since the inception of the Two Hearts project in 2017, For "Restart the Hearts” (2017) he was awarded best costume design in the Nz International Comedy Festival. 

 

Christopher worked freelance as a Content Director for Auckland based creative agency Monster Valley in 2017, directing work for Orcon Mobile, and other pieces for Fonterra & Stylefit credited to his co-direction.

 

He has worked in many roles throughout Mediaworks and Mediaworks related productions, such as Art Assist on Super City Seasons 1 & 2, Production Assistant on Jono and Ben, Continuity on Funny Girls Season 2 (Dir. Madeleine Sami), Contestant Researcher and Studio Co-Ordinator on Family Feud, Production Co-Ordinator on the Funny Girls Suffragette Anniversary Special.

 

In 2013 he wrote and project directed “TALK” - a portmanteau film comprised of ten short films, nine of which were then given to different emerging film makers to direct as well as directing one of his own. The piece was created for Auckland Fringe as a quick turn around experiment and won Best Visual Arts.  

 

Music Video Highlights include Directing Music videos for The Beths' “Future Me Hates Me & (Co-Directing & Editing) ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (Carpark Records) and Wet Wings (Lil Chief Records) as well as Art Directing music videos for The Sami Sisters, The Amity Affliction and Anna Coddington.  

 

Costume Styling highlights include Costume Assisting on feature film The Breaker Upperers (Dir. Madeleine Sami and Jackie Van Beek, 2018), styling Jacinda (Graduate theatre show for The Actors Program 2018) the Auckland University Summer Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (2016) at the Pop Up Globe in Auckland, Oreste (2016) a semi staged opera by Auckland Opera Studio & Auckland Theatre Company's "Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda' (2016) for their youth theatre programme 'Next Big Thing'. He has worked across several international TVC’s as stylist assist. He made a cool shirt for Sam Brooks' 'Actressexual'. 

 

He has also been in a few ads and was most recently seen as one half of ‘Gay couple looking at Ipad” in ASB’s “Own That Home”. For performance he is represented by Odd Management. 

 

Theatrical Highlights include work with playwright Joseph Harper since graduation 'The Boy and The Bicycle', 'Honey', 'Exoskeleton' & 'I am a Cat', his own devised show 'Little Child of Miracle' at The Basement Theatre (2016), & Set Design for Natalie Clark's dance theatre 'Everything Anyone Ever Wanted' and Yvette Parson's 'Silent Night', both at Q Theatre Loft (2016).

 

He has several short and feature length scripts in development and is writing a novella that was meant to be finished before last Christmas and remains optimistic that it will be finished soon.