Christian Victor Levatino

Christian Victor Levatino is the proud artistic director of the gangbusters theatre company, an outfit he formed in the autumn of 2001 in Los Angeles, California. He has produced, directed, acted and or written 30 productions with the company, garnering more than 60 Los Angeles theatre award nominations for theatrical goodness. Mr. Levatino is a graduate of the University of Connecticut where he received a BFA from the School of Fine Arts. He is honored to be a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

As a playwright he has written Sunny Afternoon, King Dick, ...meantime at HoJo's and Barbra & Ben: A Calamitous Night of Woe, the stage adaptation of Night of the Living Dead.

Sunny Afternoon

November 22nd, 1963: The kickoff of a 46-hour interrogation for Lee Harvey Oswald in the custody of Dallas Homicide Captain Will Fritz- where they discuss; Baynes Barron, Russia, Coca-Cola, Jim Brown, a mysterious package, backyard photographs & Friday afternoon in Dealy Plaza.

King Dick

The Manson Case is in full swing and Mercury is in retrograde. Christmas, 1970: The King just spent 100G's on gifts, and he's on the run from Graceland. High on Demerol, high on liquid Ritalin, and with the help of his dead twin brother Jesse, Elvis concocts a scheme to offer the leader of the free world his influential voice in exchange for a new symbol of power.

...meantime at HoJo’s

Friday night June 16th, 1972: Across the street from the Watergate Complex, eight men sit inside a Howard Johnson’s motel room and wait. What happens over the next five hours will set in motion a series of events that end the Presidency of Richard Nixon.

All three plays have gone on to win Best of Fringe at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. They have combined for a total of 30 theatre award nominations.

As a screenwriter he has written Silverbrook, Dark White and co-written (w/ 2015 Black List writer James Coyne (Treasure Island) the pilot for Going Long, an episodic series based on the NFL merger of the 1960's.