Chris Wells

Catch Chris Wells on Do Radio: I Am not Creative with Rachel Barnard 23rd February- 1st March 2026

Chris Wells is an award-winning actor, writer, teacher and community leader.

He’s the founding artistic director of The Secret City, a secular church of art. With events in New York City, Los Angeles, the Hudson Valley, online and beyond, Wells has brought the joyful and transcendent work of The Secret City to thousands of people. For The Secret City he curates, produces, hosts and tells stories. In 2010, he received a Special Citation Obie Award for creating The Secret City, and for service to the artistic community of New York City.

Wells is also an award-winning actor who’s developed and performed original work with companies such as The Actors’ Gang, SITI Company, Cornerstone Theater Company and more. He was honored by New Dramatists with the Charles Bowden Award, for service to the playwright.

As a teacher, Wells leads weekly online writing groups for writers of all kinds, coaches individual writers and has created writing and storytelling workshops for OMEGA, LACMA, The Actors’ Center, the Southern Vermont Writers’ Conference and more. The podcast Big & Salty, featuring Wells telling his stories before a live audience, launched in August of 2022. Wells lives in Woodstock, NY with his husband, the artist Robert Lucy. He recently completed his first novel.