Chris Parr

Chris Parr (born 1943) is a British theatre director and television executive.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Parr was Fellow in Theatre at the University of Bradford. In the mid-1970s, he became Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre.

In 1994, he was appointed head of drama at BBC Birmingham, and in the same year he produced the serial Takin' Over the Asylum, which won a BAFTA award. In 1995 he moved to the BBC's central drama department in London to become Head of Drama Series, but after less than a year in the position he was demoted after controversy surrounding a loan he had been given by a friend who was involved with an independent production company from which Parr could conceivably have commissioned programmes.

By 2002, he had moved to Thames Television as head of drama.

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