Christopher Ling was trained in Drama and Theatre Arts at Middlesex University, London and with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
Theatre in the UK includes Scenes from Paradise (London New Play Festival Company), Damn Yankees (The Bridewell Theatre Company) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (NYT). Theatre in Malaysia includes Family (Five Arts Centre) and The Sound Of Music (The Selangor Philharmonic Society & The KL Symphony Orchestra).
In the UK, he directed productions of Extremities (for Sussex University & Brighton International Festival 1994), Raft of the Medusa, Road Movie and Harold Pinter's The New World Order & Mountain Language (Middlesex University).
In 2000, Christopher co-founded Rep21 Theatre Company with Llewellyn Marsh. As the artistic director of Rep21, Christopher directed Five Letters from an Eastern Empire, Sunetra Swish Sings Sondheim (for The Artist Space Season 2000 and In Concert), Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit, Sheena Gurbakhash's Puppets, Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and a double-bill of Mountain Language/One for the Road for Amnesty International (Malaysia). He also directed Lift: Out Of Order, Arthur Miller's The Crucible and Reports of Our Deaths Have Been Greatly Exaggerated for The Rep16:21 Ensemble, the young people's theatre programme of Rep21.
More recently, he coordinated the various Creative Arts Ministries of Calvary Church from 2001 to 2007. He has directed the church’s large-scale Easter and Christmas musical presentations in Putra Stadium at the Bukit Jalil National Sports Complex and Dewan Wawasan at Menara PGRM, Cheras. He is currently the Director-in-Residence for the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre.
Since joining KLPac, he has directed The 100 Words Project, TEN: Theatrical Lightning Strikes Human Relationships, The Edge (workshop performance – full production premiering in 2009) and Love & Beauty: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare.