Chris Haley

He/Him
Actor, Playwright and Screenwriter

Landover, Maryland

Member Since:
December 2011

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About Chris

As a screen director and writer, he is co-director of the documentary, Unmarked, currently airing on PBS.ORG under the REEL SOUTH series, on the state of often unknown burial sites of free and enslaved African Americans, and several other short films which he also produced and acted in. As an actor and performer he has appeared on HBO’s, The Wire, TV ONE's, For My Man, ID Network’s, Relatively Evil, the PBS Special, Partners of The Heart, and in productions of Aint Misbehavin’, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Six Degrees of Separation and Godspell. As a writer, he has had his poetry published in Washington DC’s, Hill Rag, and his script for The Studio garnered him a 2001 Individual Artist's Award from the Anne Arundel County Arts Council.

Director of Research for the Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland at the Maryland State Archives and Director of the Utopia Film Festival in Prince George's County. Additionally, he has served on the following boards: Annapolis Film Festival, Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, Historic London Town Foundation, Jake Savage Foundation, and the Annapolis Arts Alliance Foundation. His script for the 2004 The RECONCILIATION WALK for SLAVERY and PENITENCE held in Annapolis on September 29 helped garner the Maryland Tourism Council Global Marketing Award for the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation. He has spoken on genealogy, African American history and self-empowerment on many occasions including: the 2002 African American Genealogical Conference in Los Angeles, California, the 2000 Millennium of Ethiopia Celebration in Washington, DC, the 2008 and 2007 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conventions, the 2013 Texas Library Association, the 2014 Afro American Historical & Genealogical Society in Nashville, Tennessee, 2014 Presidents' Day Address in the Maryland Old House of Delegates Chamber and at the 2016 International Roots Festival in The Gambia. The story of his DNA test that resulted in his discovery and reunion with relatives from the British Isles in 2009 was covered by innumerable news outlets including USA Today and the Huffington Post. He recently co-planned and moderated online panels on Black and Queer in Entertainment and Pride Inside and Out for Annapolis Pride 2020 and the Anne Arundel County Public Library System.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 170"

Weight:
170

Body type:
Slim

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Salt/Pepper

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
African American