Christopher Weare is an Associate Professor in the Department of Drama, University of Cape Town. He is also the Director of the Little Theatre UCT. He teaches acting for stage and screen, and directing for stage and television. Areas of specialization include contemporary theatre practice and crafting comedy in performance.
Christopher is a member of The Mechanicals Collective which has for the last four years staged highly successful professional Repertory Seasons and a Summer Season in Cape Town. Recent productions include Lovborg's Women, The Real Inspector Hound, Mephisto, Frank'n Stein, Decadence, The Zoo Story and Cowboy Mouth. His collaborative works with Alan Committie have established Committie as one of the most successful South African theatre brands in the past ten years. He has directed extensively in collaboration with South African playwrights throughout his career.
Weare is Director of the Little Theatre and founder of The Intimate Theatre. The latter is his initiative to provide and to nurture a theatre space for young professional theatre practitioners. His collaborative staging of INUA with Jori Snell for Baba Yaga Productions from Denmark is his most recent work to be performed internationally in Bogata, Columbia. He has staged works in Canada, Denmark, Italy, Czech Republic, and Romania.
He was born in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe. He is married with a son and a daughter.