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		Christopher St. John was majoring in journalism when he began an intensive study of Shakespeare's Othello. It was at that very moment in time that he was bitten by the acting bug and immediately left journalism behind to pursue the pathway of a professional actor. He first enrolled in the Dramatic Workshop school which was located in the famous Carnegie Hall building in New York City. After a period of study there, Christopher made a gutsy and spontaneous decision to build his own experimental theater in mid-Manhattan--which he actually built with his own hands and his construction talent--on the second floor on 41st Street at 6th Avenue. He then successfully put together a company of talented actors, and The Troupe Repertory Theater was born. For the next six years, Christopher acted, directed, and produced dozens of stage productions. To name just a few: Six Characters In Search Of An Author, The Long Goodbye, Tennis Anyone?, Night of Pity, The Park Series, The Last Of My Solid Gold Watches, A Song For All Saints, Sandcastles and Dreams, and Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie?. At the end of that very productive six-year cycle of creative work with The Troupe Repertory acting company, Christopher passed a difficult series of auditions and was accepted into the world-famous Actors Studio as a lifetime member. Christopher has had the privilege and enviable good fortune to have studied with the master acting teacher Lee Strasburg for more than 20 years, alongside such super-talented actors as Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Landau, Allen Garfield, Steve Railsback, and scores of others. Christopher has worked on Broadway and Off Broadway, playing the leading role in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play No Place To Be Somebody. He also played the leading role in Willie at Joseph Papps' Public Theater in lower Manhattan. He was co-star in the classic film Shaft, which won an Academy Award for its memorable music score. He then wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Top Of The Heap, a film that was selected to play in the Berlin Film Festival. He has acted on television in various episodic shows, and he has taught drama in a community outreach program at Yale University. Christopher has recently completed writing an original screenplay which he plans to produce and direct. At this moment his entire focus is on his movie Avatarmania.