Following his career as a child actor, Mr. Ciampa went on to become a digital effects artist for feature films such as X-Men, X-Men 2, Star Wars Episode 2, The Grinch, and many others (see Chris Ciampa on IMDB). After ten years in the digital effects business, Mr. Ciampa became a high school English teacher.
He graduated from the Buckley School with the Class of 1986, then earned his B.A. at Wesleyan University where he majored in Psychology. He earned an M.F.A in Computer Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology.