Christopher Moncayo-Torres is an Ecuadorian-American playwright, teaching artist and live storyteller, born and bred in Queens, NY. He first practiced creative writing while pretending to study for his forensic psychology degree.
He is the co-founder of Fail Better NYC, a BIPOC-CUNY centered community of multi-disciplinary art-makers who safely experiment together with their unfinished, messes-in-progress through free workshops. He produced and hosted the monthly live storytelling-workshop show, Fail Better Storytime. He is also a Moth StorySLAM winner who has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour podcast and currently one of their instructors.