Chris Parr is a British theatre director and television executive.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Parr was Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bradford

University of Bradford

The University of Bradford is a British university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The University received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th University to be created in Britain, but its origins date back to the early 1800s...

. In the mid 1970s he became Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre

Traverse Theatre

The Traverse Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1963.The Traverse Theatre commissions and develops new plays or adaptations from contemporary playwrights. It also presents a large number of productions from visiting companies from across the UK. These include new plays,...

.

In 1994 he was appointed head of drama at BBC Birmingham. In the same year he produced the Takin' Over the Asylum

Takin' Over the Asylum

Takin' Over the Asylum is a six part BBC Scotland television drama about a hospital radio station in a Glasgow psychiatric hospital. It was written by Donna Franceschild, produced by Chris Parr and directed by David Blair....

, which won a BAFTA award

British Academy Television Awards

The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . They have been awarded annually since 1954, and are analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States.-Background:...

. By 2002 he had moved to Thames Television

Thames Television

Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....

 as head of drama.

as Director

• Revenge by Howard Brenton
  Howard Brenton
  -Early years:Brenton was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, son of Methodist minister Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian . He was educated at Chichester High School For Boys and read English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1964 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal...
  
   (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1969)
• Gum and Goo by Howard Brenton, Bradford University Theatre Group, 1969–70
• Heads by Howard Brenton, University of Bradford Drama Group, 1969
• The Education of Skinny Spew by Howard Brenton, University of Bradford Drama Group, 1969
• Triple Bill: Laughs etc, History of a Poor Old Man and The Old Jew (Soho Theatre, 1970)
• Two Kinds of Angels (Bradford, 1970)
• Inquisition (Soho Theatre, 1971)
• A Fart for Europe (Theatre Upstairs, 1973)
• True-Life (Soho Theatre, 1973)
• New Reekie (Traverse Theatre, 1977)
• A&R (Traverse Theatre, 1977)
• Rents (Traverse Theatre, 1979)
• The Case of David Anderson QC (Traverse Theatre, 1980)
• The Long March (BBC Television, 1983)
• The Rainbow (BBC Television)
• Heartlanders (Birmingham Community Theatre, 1989)
• Kings of the Road (Edinburgh Festival, Ambassadors Dublin, Winchester Theatre Royal, Greenwich Theatre, 2003)
• The Musical (Edinburgh Festival, 2004)

as Producer

• You, Me & Marley
  You, Me & Marley
  You, Me & Marley is a 1992 independent drama movie starring Marc O'Shea, Bronagh Gallagher, Michael Liebmann, and Michael Gregory.Directed by Richard Spence and produced by Chris Parr, the screenplay was written by Graham Reid.-Synopsis:...
  
   (1992)
• Martin Chuzzlewit
  Martin Chuzzlewit
  The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialized between 1843-1844. Dickens himself proclaimed Martin Chuzzlewit to be his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels...
  
   (BBC, 1994)
• Takin' Over the Asylum
  Takin' Over the Asylum
  Takin' Over the Asylum is a six part BBC Scotland television drama about a hospital radio station in a Glasgow psychiatric hospital. It was written by Donna Franceschild, produced by Chris Parr and directed by David Blair....
  
   (BBC Scotland, 1994)

as Commissioning Editor

• Dangerfield
  Dangerfield (TV series)
  Dangerfield is a British drama series about a small town doctor / police surgeon, which ran for 6 series, between 1995 and 1999. Originally Nigel Le Vaillant played the central role , but this character later left the series, the focus switching to his replacement, played by Nigel Havers.The BBC...
  
   (BBC)
• Preston Front (BBC)
• Backup
  Backup
  In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....
  
   (BBC)
• Dalziel & Pascoe
  Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)
  Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...
  
   (BBC)
• Cruel Train (BBC)

Sources

• 'New Challenge at BBC' Bradford University News and Views, November 1995. Retrieved 3 December 2005.