Chris Kirby

Biography

His family moved to Adelaide, Australia when he was about seven years old. Chris and his younger brother, Andrew were exposed to the theater through their parents participation in local amateur productions, wherever they happened to be living at the time. As a young boy, he witnessed ventriloquism for the first time and was captivated by it and soon began experimenting with it. Because agents and club managers inexplicably couldn't seem to relate to his last name of Covington, he got so exasperated he started working under the name Chris Kirby, liking the alliteration. Eventually he took a grown up job at a bank but quickly decided that life on the stage was for him. In Adelaide, he hosted a...