Christian Scheider

For film, Scheider’s first documentary, A Dream Conferred about progressive education in Long Island, won the Youth Jury Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2005.

On television, Scheider guest starred on ABC’s primetime series Forever starring Ioan Gruffudd.

In 2017, Scheider, Marder and Isla Hansen were commissioned by Guild Hall Center for the Visual and Performing arts to premiere their new experimental performance The Summit - a two act slapstick comedy about transhumanists.

In 2015, Scheider co-produced and co-directed the documentary The Tree Prophet about self-identified climate prophet David Milarch, which had its premiere at the Santa Monica Film Festival in 2017 and won the Audience Award for Best Short Doc at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.

On stage in 2015, Scheider performed in the two-man play RED by John Logan, at Guild Hall with Victor Slezak as Mark Rothko. In 2017 he performed in "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been..." by Eric Bently with James Earl Jones and Matthew Broderick.

In 2014, Scheider and Marder were commissioned by the Parrish Art Museum to adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Galápagos with endorsement from the Vonnegut estate. The production featured a three-story set, a live orchestra, puppets, video and a twenty-six person cast including Oscar-nominee Bob Balaban.

In 2013, with the endorsement from his estate, Scheider co-adapted Ray Bradbury’s The Murderer with frequent collaborator Tucker Marder.

Acting in film, Scheider performed in Words and Pictures directed by Fred Schepisi opposite Clive Owen and Juliet Binoche, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and was released nationally in 2014.

In 2012, Scheider co-produced and co-edited the Marfan Question, commissioned in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Medical Center for their first-of-its-kind interactive video resource program for people living with Marfan syndrome.

Christian Scheider (born January 20, 1990) is an American actor, writer, and director.