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Born in Bristol, Christopher Fry is the son of Charles John Harris, an architect who later became a church lay reader, and Emma Marguerite Fry Hammond Harris. Fry attended Bedford Modern School in Bedford from 1918 to 1926. He became a schoolmaster, teaching at Bedford Froebel Kindergarten in 1926-1927 and Hazelwood School in Limpsfield, Surrey, from 1928 to 1931. From 1932 to 1935 he served as a founding director of the Tunbridge Wells Repertory Players, where a play he had written as a schoolboy, The Peregrines, was produced in a revised form, as curtain raiser to the English premiere of Bernard Shaw's "comediettina for two voices in three conversations," Village Wooing. He also wrote the music for a musical comedy, She Shall Have Music (1935), and a play on the life of British social reformer Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, which was performed in aid of Dr. Barnardo's Homes for Children.
These works he considers outside his serious professional career, which began in 1938 with The Boy With a Cart, a slight but charming play about the young Saint Cuthman.
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