Chris Webb
Emmy Winning Journalist, Filmmaker, Performer, Activist
Chris Webb is a globally recognized spoken word artist, an Emmy-winning journalist, and a filmmaker from Cleveland Ohio.
From 2015-2020, he toured with the world’s largest spoken word tour, Poets in Autumn, where he performed original pieces for 50 U.S. cities and international dates including London, Kenya, and the Caribbean annually. From 2020-25, he joined WKYC-3 to document powerful perspectives from Cleveland’s marginalized and emerging communities, ultimately earning a 2021 Emmy.
As a filmmaker, Chris has been featured on MTV, BET, and the Tribeca Film Institute among others. Chris is a CMSD graduate, and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland before ultimately earning his degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.
As an ad director, Chris has produced ad work for The White House, the Essence Festival, the National Civil Rights Museum, and other local and national vendors.
This October, Chris will be having the world premiere of his one man show “The End of Black Excellence” as the launch of Cleveland Public Theater’s 2025-26 season. He is also a 2025 finalist of the International Storytelling Centre’s “Story Slam” – set to compete in Jonesborough, Tennessee this year.