Cristofer Gross began reviewing theater in 2006. He launched Theatertimes.org, for which he is sole writer, in 2005 after leaving Orange County's South Coast Repertory, where he had been Public Relations Director since 1983. Prior to his 22 years in theater, he was an editor of a western regional inflight magazine based in Orange County, and before that co-editor of a biweekly music newspaper in Philadelphia, where he lived briefly after graduating from the University of Southern California's School of Journalism in 1975.