Photo by Ray Katchatorian
Christopher Robin Smith
Christopher is a writer, actor and acting teacher. At fifteen, he began his professional career as a member of the nostalgia performance band, The Fabulous Brylcreams. After attending Kenyon College and the University of Exeter, he moved to New York City, where he joined the award-winning improvisational company Interplay. Christopher and fellow Interplay member Jim Meskimen made several appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway? As a writer, he’s created material for John Travolta, Ashton Kutcher, Juliette Lewis and Al Gore, to name a few. With Tamara Wilcox-Smith (“The First Lady of Improv”), Christopher co-founded the National Improvisational Theatre in New York and, along with Eric Matheny and Tamra Meskimen, in 2006, founded The Acting Center in Los Angeles.
April Biggs
April has devoted her career to supporting artists: as executive assistant to an award-winning recording artist and film composer, as talent manager of young actors, and playing an instrumental role in establishing The Acting Center as its first Executive Director. For more than 20 years, she produced Celebrity Centre International’s Christmas Stories, an annual star-studded charity event benefitting the Hollywood Police Activities League and featuring the likes of John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Erika Christensen, Seth Green, Priscilla Presley and The Pointer Sisters. Currently, she is hard at work cataloguing and publishing Christopher’s decades worth of scripts, short stories and comedic skits. An accomplished artist herself, in her spare time, she pursues photography and painting.