Talent Guide

Chris Eigeman

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2011, Grants and Awards 2011

Bio

Chris Eigeman is a 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Fast Track Grant recipient. He made his debut as a filmmaker with Turn The River starring Famke Janssen and Rip Torn. As an actor, Eigeman is perhaps best knows for his work in the films of Whit Stillman: Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco. Recently, Eigeman starred opposite Ian Holm and Famke Janssen in the New York romantic comedy The Treatment, directed by Oren Rudavsky. Eigeman has also worked with Wayne Wang in Maid In Manhattan starring Jennifer Lopez, as well as with John Frankenheimer in the HBO feature Path To War. He starred opposite Jenny McCarthy in the romantic comedy The Perfect You, which premiered at the LA Film Festival in the summer of 2002.

Eigeman’s television work includes the starring role in the mid-season series for ABC/DreamWorks created by Seinfeld’s veteran exec-producer/writer Peter Mehlman entitled It’s Like…You Know. Other television credits include multiple episodes of Malcolm in The Middle as well as one season on The Gilmore Girls. Eigeman was born and raised in Denver and attended the Putney School in Vermont and then enrolled in Kenyon College in Ohio, where he majored in English and Drama. When he is not working, Eigeman resides in New York with his wife, a producer/journalist for CNN, and their son Gabriel.

Current Project

Midnight Sun (Narrative Feature)

Logline

1943, as the war rages on, a group of young and brilliant minds set out for the desert of New Mexico - and as they build a bomb that might destroy the world, idealism and hope give way to betrayal and obsessions.