Hi, I’m Chris Theodore

I am Sharon’s husband, and Sophie and Max’s father.

I grew up in Santa Monica, then Temecula. My father taught in California public schools for 55 years. My mother gave her time to causes she believed in.

I studied Fine Arts and Economics at Claremont McKenna College, then spent a year in New Zealand on a Rotary Scholarship. My twenties were mostly Geneva and Budapest — trying very hard to appear interesting.  

Back in the US, I founded The Reader, a public-interest magazine that grew, over twenty years, into one of California’s largest-circulation print magazines. In 2021, I ran for the United States Senate. 

Today, I’m mostly focused on being a father — and on Elsewhere, a 26-city film project.