Charlie is a Seattle based theater maker interested in creating work that reminds an audience that life is, ultimately, worth living.

He recently directed and choreographed the national tour of The Queens’ Cartoonists. Other direction and/or choreography credits include: Urinetown! (5th Avenue Theatre), The Skin of our Teeth (Seattle Rep), Cymbeline (Seattle Shakespeare), Grumpy Old Men (Arrow Rock Lyceum), Pride and Prejudice (Flat Rock Playhouse), and Head Over Heels (Cornish College). Additional credits include productions with Paper Mill Playhouse, Taproot Theatre, FringeNY, North Carolina Theater, Bay Street Theater, Asolo Repertory Theater, The Barnstormer’s Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theater, and Village Theatre.

They have developed new musicals with The Rev Theater Co, New York Theater Barn, Green Room 42, The Dramatists’ Guild, and Musical Theater Factory and hold associate credits with Broadway’s Connor Gallagher, Denis Jones, Glenn Casale, and Tony award winner Michael Arden among others.

In his arts administration work, Charlie served a year as the Interim Artistic Producing Associate at The 5th Avenue Theatre. Prior to that, they worked with the New York based theater company Out of the Box Theatrics as the Director of New Works where they helped to develop 12 new plays and musicals.

Charlie has taught all over the nation, most recently at Cornish College of the Arts and Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School . He attended Elon University and is a member of Director’s Lab North.