Christopher Vened is a drama writer and director. He was born in 1952, in Poland, where he was an actor-mime from 1974 until the end of 1981 in the Wroclaw Pantomime Theater founded by Henryk Tomaszewski. While on tour with the company in Germany, he defected because marital law was declared in Poland. Since then he has been living in the West, first in West Berlin for two and a half years, and then in the United States. He likes to think about himself as a citizen of the world and an international artist. Whether here or there, he has been involved in the work of theater: directing, teaching, and performing. He is the author of the acting book In Character: An Actor’s Workbook for Character Development. He is presently revising his one-man show, A Quest for Human Identity. He is inclined toward the theater of meaning and thinks that meaning has been lost in the modern/postmodern culture and needs to be restored or found anew.