Chris Coffey is an actor-musician, music director, educator, and theater maker from New Jersey whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens, and headphones from New York to Alaska.

Favorite acting credits include the regional premiere of Bandstand (Johnny Simpson - Summer Lyric at Tulane), Angels In America (Louis - Redhouse), Boston premiere of Once (Svec - SpeakEasy Stage Co.), Forever Plaid (Francis/Dance Captain - Majestic Theater MA), and a 6-actor Romeo & Juliet (Benvolio/Paris/Lady Cap., et al) at Redhouse Arts Center which earned him and his cast a SALT (Syracuse Area Live Theater) Award for Ensemble of the Year. He can also be seen in the upcoming VR video game, Gatekeeper/Trolls. Chris is represented by ATB Talent and Bright Artists Management.

Select music directing & conducting credits include Shakespeare In Love, Little Shop of Horrors, and It's A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play (for which he also composed & performed the music) at UConn's Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Lizzie: The Musical at Mount Holyoke College, Mamma Mia and Into The Woods at Sitka Fine Arts Camp,Working at Redhouse Arts Center, and many others. He also wrote the theme music for the Kingdom of Graph podcast. As a pit musician, he has played dozens of shows on drums, guitars, and electric bass, and his made-to-order performance tracks have been used by multiple theater companies.
Chris is an alumnus of the National Theater Institute and Manhattanville College, and is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and Local 802 American Federation of Musicians. He is currently the drummer and occasional guitarist with the jazziest cats in NYC, the Shubert Alley Cats.

As an educator and vocal technique specialist, Chris has worked with students appearing on Broadway, National tours, and in theaters nationwide. With over fifteen years of teaching experience, he now specializes in college audition prep for prospective musical theater and acting students and teaches instrumental technique on drums and percussion, guitars, bass, and piano, out of his private studio. Chris has also taught voice for for Syracuse University's Tepper Semester and numerous professional theater companies across the country. Private coaching sessions primarily take place virtually and throughout New York City. Click here to learn more.