Christopher Grimm

Christopher Grimm is a New York City-based Writer-Director and actor. He wrote, produced, directed and starred in a series of TV promos and movie trailers for the Independent Film Channel based on The Bystander from Hell, a character he created in a short shot on one roll of Super-8 film that played at over 50 film festivals, including Sundance. He directed the short comedy Looking for Dubinsky, and his most recent film, Goyband is his feature-film directorial debut. Goyband is a musical comedy that stars Adam Pascal (Rent), Amy Davidson (8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter), Tovah Feldshuh (Irena's Vow, Golda's Balcony), Natasha Lyonne (Slums of beverly Hills, American Pie), Tibor Feldman (The Devil Wears Prada, Law & Order), Zoe Lister Jones, Cris Judd (TV's Dirty Dancing), Dean Edwards (Saturday Night Live), Wendy Diamond and CBS Travel Editor Peter Greenberg. The film was recently picked up for distribution by MarVista Entertainment. As a screenwriter he has worked with directors such as Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), Academy Award-winning editor Hughes Winborne (Crash), director Alan Rudolph (Afterglow, Mortal Thoughts) and producer Madeline Warren (The Man Who Knew Too Little). In addition to writing several award-winning short films, writing credits include the feature-length films Rhythm Thief (winner of numerous festival awards, including a Sundance Jury Prize); Spare Me (winner of the Avignon Prix Tournage) and the documentary Calling the Ghosts (winner of 2 Emmy Awards & a Cable Ace Award). He has worked as a writer, producer and actor with such A-list stars as John C. Reilly, Edie Falco, Jeffrey Wright, Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Corrigan, Michael Rappaport, William H. Macy, Bob Balaban, Tim Blake Nelson and Anna Friel. Current projects include Devil's Interval, a screenplay in development, and Most Unusual Girl a dramatic feature he wrote and will direct. It is slated to film in New York City in 2011.