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Christopher Healy is Senior Culture Editor to Cookie magazine,
for which he writes the entertainment reviews, covering
children’s books, music, DVDs, TV shows, movies, and games. For
the past four years, he has also reviewed video games for people over
10 in the “Sunday Source” section of The Washington Post.
He would like it to be known that he also writes about topics that have
nothing to do with animated characters. His work has appeared in such
venues as Salon.com, Glamour, Parenting, Child, Teen People, Real Simple, Cargo, and The Advocate, among others. Pop Culture is his first book, though he previously contributed to the anthology, Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Parents (St. Martin’s Press, 2001), which won two 2001 Lambda Literary Awards (Young Adult and Nonfiction Anthology).
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Noelle Howey, and his 5-year-old daughter, Bryn (with whom readers of Pop Culture will be very well-acquainted), and his 1-year-old son, Dashiell.
Other Chris Healy trivia:
•Managed to live in three different states between 2001 and 2003
(New York to Minnesota to Ohio and back to New York again).
•Has been both a stay-at-home dad and a full-time working dad.
•Has
a B.A. in Theatre from C.W. Post–Long Island University and
actually acted professionally for several years after school.
Highlights of his acting career:
*Performed Euripides’ the Bacchae ––
in Greek –– at the Temple of Aphrodite in Cyprus before a
Greek-speaking Cypriot audience. Does not actually speak Greek.
*Spent
a chunk of 1997 on a 42-city U.S. tour with the National Theater of the
Performing Arts. Co-starred in the bilingual Spanish-English musical
comedy, Mañanas de Abril y Mayo, which played mostly
before high-school audiences Discovered that when teenagers don’t
like a play, they will throw pennies at the actors.
*Took
part in an international theater project, during which a New York
theater company spent six weeks in Lithuania working with a Lithuanian
theater company to develop a new drama from scratch. The trip was
amazing. The play never got written. (Vodka was involved in both
results.)
*Made his film debut as Man Buying Corn in John Turturro’s 1998 indie flick Illuminata. His ad-libbed shout of “Corn, please!” can heard in the very first shot.
*Haunted house zombie, October 1995
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