Christopher Shea was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. He attended Matignon High School and later attended and graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He is one of the founding members of the Neurotic Young Urbanites--a theatre group consisted of graduates of NYU who migrated to Los Angeles. He enjoys comedy theatre as well as musical theatre. This talented and gifted young man has appeared most notably as a soloist in a production of "Gershwin to Porter" at Radio City Music Hall. He has appeared as Tony in a production of "West Side Story" that toured Greece. Other plays he has appeared in are "Boys Next Door" (1994), "Rope" (1995), "The Notebook of Trigorin" (1996), "Company" (1996), "Etta Jenks" (1997), "All in the Timing" (1997), "The Eleventh" (1998), "Alone at the Beach" (1999), "Twelfth Night" (1999).