Chris Thompson is the Artistic Director of St Martins: The Victorian Centre for Youth Arts. A writer and director of many plays for young performers and young audiences, he has also written two feature films and is a regular reviewer of youth literature for Viewpoint magazine and youth theatre for Lowdown magazine. Chris was a member of the Writers' Jury for the 1993 Australian Film Institute Awards. He is currently working with author Geoffrey McSkimming on a stage adaptation of Cairo Jim on the Trail to ChaCha Muchos. His first short story 'The Passing of Aunty Erl' was published in the anthology 'Family: A Collection of Short Stories'.
