Description Christopher Atamian celebrates the extraordinary cultural mosaic and landscape of Washington Heights in playful, nostalgic rhyme that honors familial love as much as urban romance, cutting to the core of queer desire.
Atamian was selected for the 2009 Venice Biennale on the basis of his video.
He also co-produced the OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise in 2006, directed by Elyse Singer, as well as several music videos and short films.
He is the former President and a current board member of AGLA New York and in 2004 founded Nor Alik, a non-profit cultural organization responsible for producing the First Armenian International Film Festival.
Apart from creative endeavors and professional activities as a senior executive in leading media companies and consultancies, Atamian has concentrated on community activism.
He completed his education at USC Film School and Columbia Business School where he received the school\'s highest honor, the Samuel Bronfman Scholarship in Democratic Enterprise. in literature, Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University and a Fulbright Fellowship to the ETH (Swiss National Polytechnic) in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Born in New York City, Atamian attended the Lycée Français before graduating from Collegiate School where he was a National Merit Scholar.
While his current work is increasingly devoid of overt ethnic topics, much of his early writings centered around issues of sexuality, ethnic origin and assimilation. - Nancy Agabian, "Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter," "Princess Freak"About the Author Christopher Atamian is a noted writer and creative producer of Italian-Armenian background and the grandson of Armenian Genocide survivors.
Drawing on influences as disparate as Nigoghos Sarafian and Patti Smith, Chris mesmerizes the reader with mythological figures and spiritual reverie, ultimately offering redemption for our troubled times-through his Armenian American and native New Yorker eyes.
Description Christopher Atamian celebrates the extraordinary cultural mosaic and landscape of Washington Heights in playful, nostalgic rhyme that honors familial love as much as urban romance, cutting to the core of queer desire
