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mr.christopher.petersen@gmail.com (908)
399-6655 NATIONALITY Citizen
of the United States Citizen
of Germany |
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outside the box -daredevil -high-spirited -free-thinker -outspoken -unique
personality -someone
who leads by example |
PROFESSIONAL CAREER CLASSIFICATION: ACTOR
I am sure many of you have read resumes where a person will tell you WHAT
they are and not WHO they are. In doing so, they attempt to create this
imaginary identity around their career. I have seen this with careers such
as an accountant, an analyst, a therapist, a sales-man, and yes, even an
executive. In the end though, that still does not answer the question of who
they are.
This would be comparable to a dog barking, "I can roll over, sit, and
play dead on command in three different languages! I have had three masters
and fulfilled a different set of needs for each one! I am looking for a new
master at this time, so anyone interested should look at my credentials and
my pedigree."
This would be great if I were a dog!
However, I am not a dog! I am a gay man in a man's world who wants and needs
the respect befitting any and all men (gay, straight, Christian, Jewish,
Moslem.....................)
So, what am I and who am I? I am a 43 year-old gay male actor with a great
deal of experience in many facets of living in today's ever-changing
industrialized information hungry society!
I see myself as an ever-changing ever-growing humane human who is here to
experience life to its fullest! These
life experiences in turn help any and all of my appearances and performances
convey an austere sense of directness and security, making people quite
aware of the fact that I have absolute control of whatever stage I am on.
I have included some of my skills and accomplishments in order to put a
little detail, colour and sharpness into the self-portrait I am trying to
create here! Just remember that any portrait I present to you is only ONE of
the many frames in the suspense-filled motion picture I call: "My
Life".
FOREIGN
LANGUAGES – Learning, speaking, and writing many a foreign language is a
deep passion of mine. To me it is a reminder of the times when Europe's
elite frequently travelled and socialized throughout the historic cities of
Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, Madrid, Barcelona and many more. Learning
the histories, the languages, conversing with the peoples in their native
tongue and experiencing their cities, geography, and customs takes me back
to the days of yore and the magic that had given them their birth.
To
me this is indeed a beautiful awakening experience and also presents an
opportunity to effectively portray a varying assortment of other character
roles, which would normally not be an option in my home country.
It
also helps me to present selected roles of foreigners with cultural and
national sensitivity. After all, as a German actor, I am very proud of my
heritage and also quite aware of my country's history. I take great offence
when the simple mentioning of my Germany ancestry / citizenship is
immediately greeted with someone attempting to make me feel guilty for the
holocaust and/or other atrocities of WWII.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
German
English
French
Spanish
Danish
EDUCATION
Degrees
Masters of International Business
B. A. in Foreign Languages / Political Science
POSITION SOUGHT
I am looking for A LEADING ROLE where I can use my wit, charm and skills to
their full potential!
EXPERIENCES:
BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
Contriving business/service idea / Conducting market analysis & business
plan formulation / Directing & controlling all aspects of start-up
business operations / Targeting particular clientele / Analysing
requirements of prospective clientele / Engineering programs to develop
client base and enhance business volume / Promoting Effective
Business/client relations / Identifying opportunities for business growth /
Providing comprehensive client support through in-depth industry knowledge /
Interacting effectively with diverse individuals
MARKETING EXPERIENCE
Introducing and promoting varied programs and services / Highlighting
advantages of my organizational services / Engineering and executing
innovative marketing and advertising strategies so as to standout from the
crowd and entice customers / Developing and implementing unique promotional
advertising materials / Gathering and validating market information /
Solving advertising and marketing problems / Evaluating competitive position
within industry
COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Proposing to a client that he has a host of unsatisfied wants and needs /
Assisting the client in assessing and analysing these unsatisfied wants and
needs / Facilitating the client in the categorization and evaluation of
these unsatisfied wants and needs / Consulting the client on which of my
programs would satisfy these unsatisfied wants and needs in an optimum
fashion / Implementing selected programs so as to fulfill these unsatisfied
wants and needs / Continually monitoring the client to be sure that he is
achieving the desired results with the selected program / insuring that his
unsatisfied wants and needs are always being met in a paramount fashion
PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPERIENCE
Maintaining a user-friendly profile / Creating a concrete definition of
myself, and the services that I offer / Continually re-educating thereby
establishing myself as an authority on the services that I offer /
Presenting myself as a fully knowledgeable professional through action,
appearance and conduct / Representing myself, and my business at community
functions in one form or another / Facilitating communication with customers
through the maintenance of an open dialogue.
FORMAL
ACTOR TRAINING (OR LACK THEREOF):
To
justify my lack of a formal training / education in Theatre arts, I would
like to make reference to the mystic named OSHO!
It
does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes; whether you are a
gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter -- it does not matter. What
matters is, "are you putting your very soul into what you are
creating?" Then your creative products have something of the quality of
divine.
Except creativity, there is nothing divine.
Creativity
is the greatest rebellion in existence.
If
you want to create, you have to get rid of all conditionings otherwise your
creativity will be nothing but copying, it will be just a carbon copy. You
can be creative only if you are an individual, you cannot create as a part
of the mob psychology. The mob psychology is uncreative; it lives a life of
drag, it knows no dance, no song, no joy; it is mechanical.
NEAR
DEATH LIFE EXPERIENCE
July
25, 1984.It was on that day that I was hit by a car while bicycling and in
that accident I had sustained:
1) Severe cerebral concussion and contusion
2) Right temporal bone fracture
3) Right basilar skull fracture
4) Left transverse humerus fracture, midshaft
5) Left transverse comminuted tibial and fibular fracture
6) Soft tissue infection, multiple sites, organisms, enterobacter cloacae,
Enterobacter aerogenes, group D enterococcus, Klebsiells, oxytoca; and
Bacillus subtilis
7) Bacteremia Organism, Salmonella enteritidis
8) Right retroperitoneal hematoma
9) Right acromioclavicular joint separation
10) Multiple abrasions and contusions
11) Aspiration bronchitis, organisms, Staph aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes
and Pseudomonas putida
I was in a coma for 5 days, critical condition for 4 days and intensive care
for 3 weeks. I was finally discharged from the last hospital on December 31,
1984. Once discharged and 2 weeks later after receiving permission from my
orthopaedic surgeon that I could begin to walk again, I started on a
personal quest to again be in the shape I was in on July 24, 1984, but I
also had to come to realize that the injuries sustained in this accident had
changed the man I was into another person. But now as during my unfortunate
incarceration in hospitals, I
just wanted to be helped so as to get back into the condition I was in
before being hit by that car and not changed into a distorted version of
that person by these so-called experts in therapy. They wanted to turn me
into a typical American as had so many before and I was not going to let
them.
This
experience was indeed an awakening experience because it made me take a
whole new look at myself and it also gave me insight into some of the
private worlds and nightmares which many people go through on a daily basis.
I
have been the saddest of the sad, the maddest of the mad, and the gladdest
of the glad. I have, as a result of this incident (and all of the
precipitated fallout there-from) experienced a whole gamut of emotions,
which in turn give me the insight and the ability to portray powerful
personalities onstage expressing those same emotions.
Something
has happened to me in the last month that has gotten me to see and say that
after this great ordeal, God has given me a second chance to live my life
again! Only this time, I will have some insight into where I want to go and
what I want to do (be a successful actor) that I will not let myself be
dissuaded or misled from my goals and dreams!
For
the record, Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) is the most prolific author on
this planet with over 650 books ( 64 million words) in print. He is an
enlightened mystic from India whose wisdom has impacted millions of people.
Even after he left his body in 1990, Osho's teachings continue to grow and
inspire spiritual seekers around the world today. He teaches us
how to become a whole again, connected to Source, a more authentic human
being, and someone who celebrates life passionately as well with a deep
sensitivity to it.