Chris Tyler
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Chris Tyler is a performing artist examining the intersections of popular culture and contemporary identity. A graduate of Brown University, he has shown original performance at the Under the Radar Festival, Prelude, Taylor Swift's apartment, and gay bars all over Brooklyn.

Chris Tyler's articles

#Rent20 — Sarah Schulman and Chris Tyler on Their Generations

This is the second part of a conversation that Extended Play's Tommy O'Malley facilitated between Sarah Schulman and Chris Tyler, two artists whose work speaks to the complicated legacy of Jonathan Larson's "Rent."

#Rent20 — Sarah Schulman and Chris Tyler on What Artists Own

On the 20th anniversary of the Broadway opening of "Rent," Extended Play's Tommy O'Malley sits down with Sarah Schulman and Chris Tyler to talk about the legacy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show. Schulman argues that Jonathan Larson plagiarized huge chunks of "Rent" from her novel "People in Trouble."