Walls and Bridges
Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.
Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan
© Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan
COMEDIAN AND BEATBOXER
United States
Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan is from Foxboro, Massachusetts and went to school at UMass Amherst. After moving to New York City, he studied improv comedy with The People's Improv Theater, The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater and instructors of Chicago's Annoyance Theater. In 2003, he became part of hip-hop comedy group Freestyle Love Supreme.
Freestyle Love Supreme gave way to The Aspen Comedy Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Melbourne Comedy Festival, and the 10th Anniversary for Paramount Comedy in London. Shockwave has also performed with Doug E. Fresh, Rahzel, Biz Markie and countless other human beatboxers from around the world at venues such as The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Madison Square Garden, and the MTA subway system with Beatboxer Entertainment. He continues to perform solo around the country on stages with musicians and comedians as well as in recording
studios for TV, commercials and the Internet.
More...
+ You can catch “Shock” on “The Electric Company” every weekday on PBS, teaching kids to read.
+ Visit his website shockwavebeatbox.com
