He was the artistic director of Camden People's Theatre from 2001 to 2004,[2] and led the ensemble Chris Goode and Company until its closure in 2021.
Kate Bassett, the theate crtiic for The Independent, said he was known as "British theatre's greatest maverick talent" [5] A regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he won four Fringe First awards for Men in the Cities, Monkey Bars, Neutrino and Kiss of Life.
[7] The Face characterised his work as "either community-focused or one-man shows, in which he performed stories of suicide, bruised men and homosexuality.
Goode hosted the regular podcast Thompson's Live, in which he curated discussions with other theatre artists about their practice.
[10] Goode was gay and married sound designer and theatre artist Griffyn Gilligan (born 1994) in July 2018.