About

Christopher Bohan has been with the department of theater at Case Western Reserve University since 2012. He teaches acting and improvisation to the undergraduates, and acting and audition technique to MFA students. For the department, he directs undergraduate productions, and along with Angelina Herin, he is the co-director of undergraduate recruitment.

For the undergraduate program, Chris has directed Electra, Uncle Vanya, The Bald Soprano, and Proof, as well as a virtual production of Bus Stop.  In 2021, along with undergrads and several MFA alums, Chris played Bernard Nightengale in the inaugural production of the Maltz Performing Arts Center’s production of Arcadia.

Currently, Chris is doing research on the intersections of improvisation and cognitive behavioral therapy with Dr. Amy Przeworski from the CWRU Department of Psychology. Project DRAMA is funded by the CWRU Expanding Horizons and The National Endowment for the Arts.

In addition to his work with the theater department at CWRU, Chris works as a teacher and professional actor in the Cleveland area. In 2024, he starred as Mr. Bennet and Charlotte Lucas in the Cleveland Play House production of Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice, and has supporting roles in two films released that year: Unsinkable: The Untold Story and Lost and Found in Cleveland.

Chris has been teaching the Michael Chekhov technique with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium since 2015, and was recently named to the board of the organization and became a lead teacher with the program. GLMCC offers a certification program in the Michael Chekhov technique to actors and theater educators.

He graduated from Lehigh University in 1994 with a BA in theatre and economics. He received his MFA in Performance from The Hilberry Theatre at Wayne State University in 2007. He is a founding member of Cleveland’s longest running improvisational comedy company, Something Dada, and was a regular performer until 2003.  Chris is a proud member of the Actor’s Equity Association (AEA), and SAG-AFTRA. He lives in University Heights, Ohio with his wife and two children.