CHRISTOPHER REINER

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Writer

Books

  • I Want Nothing But You In the World (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015)
  • Pain (Avec Books, 2002)
  • Ogling Anchor (Avec Books 1999)
  • A Coward's Libretto (Texture Press 1993)

Anthologies

  • Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California (PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century," Douglas Messerli, ed.)
  • Writing from the New Coast (Peter Gizzi & Julliana Spahr, ed., 1991)

 

Songwriter / Composer

Theatre Productions

Composer-in-Residence for Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group from 2005-2015. Wrote songs and musical interludes for shows that were performed at the group's Los Angeles venue and off-Broadway in New York City. Major productions include:

  • End Up Here (ZJU Theatre, Los Angeles, May - September 2018)
  • Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart  (St. Luke's Theatre, New York City, September - October 2009)
  • Masque of the Red Death (St. Luke's Theatre, New York City, October - November 2009)
  • Alice In Wonderland (Actors Temple Theatre, New York City, February 2010)
  • Urban Death (Players Theatre, New York City, June - August 2010)
  • Willam Shakespeare's Venus & Adonis (ZJU Theatre, Los Angeles, 2006)
  • Love (ZJU Theatre, Los Angeles, May - June 2004)

Film

  • Death Valley Project: The Making of The Last Supper Sculpture (film, 50 min. Suzanne Hackett-Morgan, dir. 2002, Napa Valley Film Festival)

Recordings

  • 2018 (Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp) 10 Songs, 2019
  • The Enemy Redux  (Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp) 10 Songs, 2018
  • Immaculate Heart  (Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp) 10 Songs, 2016)
  • Kiss Me Hello  (Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp) 12 Songs, 2010)
  • When We Were Smart  (Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp) 10 Songs, 2008

 

Editor & Publisher

Witz: A Journal of Contemporary Poetics (1993-2000, 27 Issues. Indexed in American Humanities Index. All issues available online at the University of Pennsylvania)

 

Margin to Margin: Chapbook Series

  • Goings by Martin Nakell (Chapbook, 2000)
  • A Swarm in the Aperture by Eric Baus (Chapbook, 2002)
  • This is Clark by Jono Schneider (2000)
  • How I Wrote This Story by Sarah Rosenthal, 2001
  • Gaps in the System by Stephen-Paul Martin, 2002
  • Portrait As If Through My Own Voice by Diane Ward (2000)
  • Notes for the Imagination by Noah de Lissovoy, 1999)

 

Additional Works

The Wedding Song (video, 4 min., composer / director, 1997, Vancouver Videopoem Festival 1997)

Stage Sleep (video, 12 min., composer / writer / director, 1999)

The Man Who Ate A Car (video, 10 min, writer /director, LA Freewaves Film Festival 2000)

Beautymarks (video, 50 min.composer / writer / director, 2023)

 

Education

B.A. Sonoma State University, "with distinction in English Literature" 1991

 

Works Reviewed in Print and Online

End Up Here reviewed in Broadway World

Love reviewed in Backstage West

Tell-Tale Heart reviewed in the New York Times

Urban Death reviewed in the New York Times

Tell-Tale Heart reviewed in the Los Angeles Times

Alice in Wonderland reviewed in L.A. Weekly

Urban Death article and personal profile in L.A. Weekly

Urban Death at Edinburgh Fringe 2018