Christopher Studenka
Christopher Studenka is a professional actor and former Salt Lake City resident currently residing in Scottsdale, Arizona.
What are some of the projects you have worked on in the last 12 months?
The last year I have spent working as an actor and producer of a feature film “Run Rabbit.” It has played in film festivals all over the world and has been named Best Feature Film a number of times including in Toronto, Prague, NYC, Albuquerque….We have also been personally selected for Kevin Smith’s inaugural SModcastle Film Festival in New Jersey in December as a closing film. He has stated he is trying to make this Sundance East. We have many more Festivals we are playing in as well. I have submitted “”Run Rabbit.” to the Utah Film Festival and hope for Selection and to be able to come back to share it with family and friends in Utah. The Writer/Director of Run Rabbit is Justin Rose. He and I have made two multi Award-winning short films prior to Rabbit and we were ambitious enough to make a Feature on our own with a limited budget and we have done so with success as we’ve had multiple offers for it already, albeit low offers, so we are still running the Festival Circuit for now. It is on my IMDb page.
Who is your favorite person on set?
My favorite person on set is the Director. I like working with Directors and getting in sync with their vision.
What project have you worked on that made you a better professional?
Every project I’ve worked on made me a better professional. That is the only way to go about it. To learn from everything we do and the lessons are different each time. I could give a number of answers. But I will say working on a short film entitled “Anita” really stretched me as an actor for a difficult role and gave me great confidence going forward that I could do it.
What advice do you have for your fellow actors or for people interested in pursuing acting as a career?
My advice for anyone is to stretch the roles you think you can play. Audition for anything you can early on. It will give you audition practice and confidence and preparing for a role you are not sure you can play will only make you a better actor whether you get the part or not. It can all be used as practice. Perform as much as you can and try to take something away from everything you do. You could meet a fellow actor or director or production person or get to do a scene that’s uncomfortable and that’s okay. Use it later on.
