Make your event a Happening.
All of the characters and performances you will encounter at Rusty Happenings, are the comic creations of Christopher Yates. A graduate of the Wellington Performing Arts School, New Zealand, he has been performing professionally since 1991. Christopher has performed on five continents in three different languages.

A most diverse performer,
Christopher Yates has specialized in creating unique multidisciplined performances and characters which can be tailored to suit any theme or event from theatre to family carnival to corporate.

He has appeared on a host of stages in a multitude of venues for clients as diverse as The President of Venezuela to BBC studios and for the San Francisco 49ers football team.

Originally from New Zealand, Christopher returns to the United States from an Australian tour that included entertaining at the Lord Mayor's New Years Eve Party at the Sydney Opera House as well as a highly successful tour of the United Kingdom and Venezuela.

Christopher offers everything!
Whether it's juggling, comedy, roving on stilts, medieval and restaurant theatre characters or a hilarious live act compere/emcee, Christopher works the crowds like no other. No matter what the age, he wins everyone's hearts. And with commanding presence on stage he is one of the few entertainers who thinks on his feet and has both the talent and experience to alter his entertainment to fit the crowd's changing mood.

Christopher Yates brings to his entertaining a very attractive personality. Ever pleasant, laid back, relaxed, yet always well organized and reliable - Christopher never fails to deliver top results. Get him, and make your event a happening.