Christopher Demos-Brown

Chris was born in Philadelphia, but by the time he was in the fourth grade had moved to Miami with his family.[4] He attended Dartmouth College in the mid-1980s, majoring in Russian with a minor in history, with a potential goal of joining the United States Foreign Service. In 1992, he graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,[4] and the University of Geneva.[5]

His interest in the performing arts became serious while he was attending Dartmouth. He acted in several stage productions and directed some short plays.[4] Prior to attending law school, Chris spent two years in Los Angeles pursuing an acting career. When asked about acting during a 2018 interview with Broadway Buzz, he said, “I wanted to be an actor in the worst way, and I was an actor in the worst way, unfortunately.”[1] He focused his efforts on being a playwright instead.[2]

After law school, Christopher Brown and Stephanie Demos were in training to be prosecutors when they met at the state attorney's office in Miami-Dade.[6] After they married, Chris chose to keep both last names hyphenated as Demos-Brown. They work together as trial lawyers in Miami. In 2010, together with another couple, they co-founded Zoetic Stage, a professional theatre company at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Stephanie serves as board president, and Chris is the company's literary manager.[6]