Christian is a native of Washington, D.C., where his parents moved after meeting in Cambridge in the 1950s. While in D.C., Christian started a program that took disabled children on cultural outings, performed with a comedy group, and led teen discussion groups. Via Allston and Somerville, he moved in the mid-80s to a Cambridge rent-controlled studio on Broadway at Ellery. He reported for the Middlesex News and the Dedham Daily Transcript, taught creative drama in after-school programs,and directed plays with the Animist Theater Company, among other creative pursuits.

Christian moved to Greenwich Village in 1991 to go to NYU. He wrote a performance studies master’s thesis on screaming in performance art and everyday life, and started a dissertation on talking-to-yourself in the works of Beckett and Cage. He ran a conference on politics and peformance in the former Soviet republics, sat on the editorial board of the journal Women and Performance, wrote articles, and taught in NYU’s drama department. He had a verse drama produced (“Multiple Play”) and a sound art piece including community voices published (“Radio [kKkKk] Descartes”), and directed and performed in multi-media pieces in downtown venues. At the end of August 2004, he created a large-scale peace demonstration that inspired thousands to ring a composition by Pauline Oliveros around the World Trade Center site.

He left NYC for Arlington in 2007 (then back to Cambridge in ’08) to direct Munroe Center for the Arts, a community arts center in Lexington, where he served until 2010. Currently, he is a member of Third Sector New England’s Executive Transitions interim leader pool, and reads with the Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association. He lives on Gibson Street in West Cambridge, and has brothers in Arlington and Western Massachusetts.

(Aside from his Citizen Journalism duties, he is looking for full-time work as an non-profit program director or executive director. See www.linkedin/in/ChristianHerold).

Christian is honored to be a member of NeighborMedia and thanks the staff--especially Nicole Belanger--for its commitment and generosity.

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