Kris first knew he wanted to be involved in theater early in life when his mother took him to Casa Mañana. Kris became involved in theater in high school, eventually appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Annie Get Your Gun and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. In college, Kris won acting awards in Poetz Corner (Edgar Allen Poe), The Rivers and Ravines (Caleb Stratman) and Murder By Natural Causes.

After receiving a Bachelor's in Rhetoric from Hardin-Simmons University, Kris began graduate study in Rhetoric and Performance Studies at the University of North Texas. While at UNT, Kris wrote, directed and appeared in a number of performance art pieces, receiving special recognition for his role in the adaptation of the book Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, as Diego Rivera in Frida Kahlo in Love, and for his adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s haunting short story, The Lottery. Kris has traveled to conferences and performance festivals around the country as a director, performer and academic, presenting papers and performances on Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Andy Kaufman, in conjunction with his study of the satirical grotesque. He has taught classes in Performance of Literature, Storytelling and Public Speaking and Public Speaking and Critical Thinking at UNT and KD Studio Actors’ Conservatory.

Email: krisnoteboom@theaterjones.com

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