“If you could choose one superpower what would it be? I’d choose adaptability.”
Christian Cuoco is theatrically trained in France. He was born Christmas Day, 1986. He’s a first generation American. His mom is Ecuadorian and his dad is Italian-American.
Growing up, Christian was usually the smallest, youngest, curly-haired-gap-toothed kid who stood out like a sore thumb. He comes from a disciplined yet brash family of police officers. They didn't always approve of a sensitive, creative, free-flowing type. So how does a shy little runt survive in a sea of unpredictable and loud energy? He expects the unexpected and hangs on with the will of his imagination.
When he was four, on a Sunday afternoon while watching a darkly lit 70s movie with his grandma Sylvia, she pointed to the television screen with her plump, wrinkly finger and said in her thick New York accent, “That’s the greatest actor in the whole world”.
From that day on, he wanted to be the type of poetic, powerful storyteller he and his grandma loved. But he made a few pitstops along the way. For a few years when he wasn’t in school, he woke up in the quiet sunshine each morning to go to District #6 Town of Hempstead Sanitation Department. He was a garbageman; riding the back of the truck, fighting off hordes of bees, possums, and ‘garbage juice’ to pick up rancid, watery, hot, maggot filled trash bags and recycling. Meanwhile, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a concentration in Advertising and Studio Art at Marist College. He graduated in 2008 in Poughkeepsie, NY.
In 2011, he started to follow the growing whispers of his intuition. Though it wasn't easy, he endured incredible fear through all levels of improv at the PIT and harnessed his emotional presence with Sundance Grand Jury Nominated Director/teacher, Deborah Kampmeier and Elizabeth Kemp, former Associate Artistic Director of the Actors Studio.
Christian, although often perceived as a timid individual, travelled to France to focus on controlled chaos with some of the world’s toughest physical theatre teachers at L’Ècole Philippe Gaulier (alumni include Helena Bonham Carter, Sasha Baron Cohen, Emma Thompson). He responded to notoriously harsh criticisms by making people laugh with offbeat, charming performances.
In his down time, he loves to watch Garry Shandling comedy and dance cumbia. He’s also a certified reiki healer, part-time visual artist, skateboarder and painter.
Christian Cuoco is theatrically trained in France. He was born Christmas Day, 1986. He’s a first generation American. His mom is Ecuadorian and his dad is Italian-American.
Growing up, Christian was usually the smallest, youngest, curly-haired-gap-toothed kid who stood out like a sore thumb. He comes from a disciplined yet brash family of police officers. They didn't always approve of a sensitive, creative, free-flowing type. So how does a shy little runt survive in a sea of unpredictable and loud energy? He expects the unexpected and hangs on with the will of his imagination.
When he was four, on a Sunday afternoon while watching a darkly lit 70s movie with his grandma Sylvia, she pointed to the television screen with her plump, wrinkly finger and said in her thick New York accent, “That’s the greatest actor in the whole world”.
From that day on, he wanted to be the type of poetic, powerful storyteller he and his grandma loved. But he made a few pitstops along the way. For a few years when he wasn’t in school, he woke up in the quiet sunshine each morning to go to District #6 Town of Hempstead Sanitation Department. He was a garbageman; riding the back of the truck, fighting off hordes of bees, possums, and ‘garbage juice’ to pick up rancid, watery, hot, maggot filled trash bags and recycling. Meanwhile, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a concentration in Advertising and Studio Art at Marist College. He graduated in 2008 in Poughkeepsie, NY.
In 2011, he started to follow the growing whispers of his intuition. Though it wasn't easy, he endured incredible fear through all levels of improv at the PIT and harnessed his emotional presence with Sundance Grand Jury Nominated Director/teacher, Deborah Kampmeier and Elizabeth Kemp, former Associate Artistic Director of the Actors Studio.
Christian, although often perceived as a timid individual, travelled to France to focus on controlled chaos with some of the world’s toughest physical theatre teachers at L’Ècole Philippe Gaulier (alumni include Helena Bonham Carter, Sasha Baron Cohen, Emma Thompson). He responded to notoriously harsh criticisms by making people laugh with offbeat, charming performances.
In his down time, he loves to watch Garry Shandling comedy and dance cumbia. He’s also a certified reiki healer, part-time visual artist, skateboarder and painter.
Grandparents, Feli and Miguel c.1956
FUTURE:
RECENT PAST:
- Developing Short Films based on bouffon characters
- Travelling to Reggio Emelia, Italy to study Commedia d’ell Arte with Antonio Fava
RECENT PAST:
- Studied Le Jeu, Melodrama, and Bouffon at renowned clown theater school, École Philippe Gaulier
- Starred in Columbia MFA short Lejana Tierra Mia Official Selection of New Faces New Voices International Film Festival
- Clyde in Jessica Litwak’s staged reading of THE NIGHT IT RAINED
- Produced alongside Punch Drunk Productions and portrayed Donald Trump in an avant garde political play, A SHIFT: POLITICAL OUTCRIES
- Jimmy in the table reading of Sonejuhi Sinha's Love Comes Later
