Chris Coleman joined the Denver Center Theatre Company as Artistic Director in November 2017.  Three months out of Carnegie Mellon, he founded Atlanta's Actor's Express in the basement of an old church in Atlanta (with $2500), building it into one of the small but mighty cultural forces in the Southeast.  For seventeen years he led Portland Center Stage, helping build a new home for the company, doubling the audience size, investing deeply in new work, and making significant strides with diversifying the organization and its audience.  He's directed for theaters cross the country (NYTW, the Alliance, Dallas Theatre Center, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Pittsburgh Public, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Rep, Center Stage Baltimore).  He lives with his husband, actor/writer  Rodney Hicks, and their dogs Trevor and Logan.