Chris Parizo is a Hollywood screenwriter originally from Burlington, Vermont. He's a former high school English teacher in Atlanta and professional musician.
Parizo is managed by Bellevue Management and represented by IAG. Parizo also programs the Breakouts section of the Slamdance Film Festival. His work has been featured in Deadline Hollywood, Variety, IndieWire, and Vanity Fair.
His debut script, The End of the Stars, placed in the Top 50 of the Academy’s 2016 Nicholl Fellowship and has since been adapted into a YA novel. His spec Mutt, based on skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen, trended on the Black List website and led to his Hollywood representation. Viceland appeared on the 2020 Annual Black List, followed by Kazan—chronicling the friendship between Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller—which landed on the 2023 list. Other solo projects include the George Michael biopic Faith and the Diego Maradona drama 10. He recently co-wrote a feature with Oscar-nominated duo Hawk Ostby & Mark Fergus (Iron Man, Children of Men).
Parizo has developed projects with major production companies and industry figures including Legendary Films, Kenny Ortega, Baha Productions, PlayStation Studios, Big Swell Entertainment’s Andy Horwitz, Silk Road, Marvel Films, Ben Everard, Lucasfilm, John Krasinski, CJ Entertainment, Andrew Lazar, Nick Jonas, Jane’s Addiction, Sugar23, and Richard Donner.
