Christopher Gurr

Christopher Gurr [he/him/his] is an American actor and director known for playing a vast range of roles on Broadway and in theaters across the United States (as well as the more readily accessible reaches of Canada). He was born in the Deep South, educated in the Midwest, ripened by the sun and sea of California and matured in the mountains of Appalachia before making his home in New York City. Gurr starred as Bustopher Jones and Gus (“the cat at the theatre door”) in the Broadway revival of Cats at the Neil Simon Theatre. In that same theater, he made his Broadway debut playing Senator Strom Thurmond opposite Byran Cranston’s LBJ in the Tony Award-winning play, All The Way. Between that notorious Dixiecrat and cats both fat and thin, Gurr has been seen on Broadway as, among other things, a villainous fop and a hard-nosed sea captain (Amazing Grace), a factory owner and his fastidious foreman (two different stints in Kinky Boots), and a very, very strange man in a yellow suit (Tuck E...