Christian Scheider is a graduate of Bard College, where he received a B.A. in Philosophy and studied theater extensively, and where he trained as an actor. His theater roles have ranged from John in Eccentricities of A Nightingale by Tennessee Williams to Ronald Reagan/Adolf Hitler/Queen Elizabeth in Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl. Scheider produced, directed and performed in 8, a dramatization of the Proposition 8 trials in California, written by Academy-Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Scheider's production was set in the actual courtroom of a predominantly Republican township in Duchess County, NY.
His performance was at the 2013 ARS Nova Theater Festival via Skype as Venture Capitalist in the New Saloon production of William Shakespeare's Mom by Milo Cramer. Scheider finished a production of In The Next Room or, The Vibrator Play as Leo Irving in Bridgehampton, NY, and in the Hamptons he was staring in The Murderer by Ray Bradbury, which he and director Tucker Marder have adapted – for the first time ever – to the stage. Words and Pictures marks Scheider's screen debut.
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