Teaching and Education Work
Charlie with S&Co. Training Workshop
Charlie and fellow Education Artists at Shakespeare & Co.
TEACHING & EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
Charlie is also a skilled Theater Educator working since 2018 at various cultural institutions in the Bay Area and Nor East.
They served as an original member of the Education Workgroup Leadership at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. At SF Shakes, Charlie worked within a Collective Leadership (along with AD, fellow TAs) to reassess, interrogate, restructure educational programming at SF Shakes. This included: creating curriculum; decolonizing/decentering White Supremacy practices; scouting/contracting venues to host programming; selecting/adapting Shakespeare’s plays for summer season programming; researching and implementing EDI work. This past summer of 2024 they had the pleasure of Managing the entire Bay Area Shakespeare Camps program, leading 10 staff members and 100 students through a summer of theater education.
Since 2021 Charlie has also proudly worked at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts teaching in their summer programs: Riotous Youth and Riotous Company. Within these programs, each summer Charlie instructs groups of students (ages 7-18) in Viewpoints, Linklater, text work, clowning (Commedia), stage combat (hand-to-hand, rapier), and history of Shakespeare/Elizabethan Worldview. All this culminates in a glorious performance at the end of each session. Trust him, a 7 year old performing Hamlet is just as potent as a 17 year old (and soooo much better than an adult)!!
At Shakespeare & Company, Charlie continues to serve the Good Work in a number of ways. They have worked in the Training department, assisting weekend workshops led by the formidable Shakespeare visionary Tina Packer. Charlie, this past winter, had the honor to act and teach in their North East Regional tour of A Midsummer Nights Dream performing as Puck (plus 3 other characters) and teaching workshops to student populations from Presque Island, ME to Nantucket!
Very exciting: Charlie will be the newest Teaching Artist on the roster at the Marsh Theater in SF. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
TEACHING STYLE
"With me as the teacher, we always lead with courage and radical empathy.
I serve as a catalyst and not an expert for my students. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers!
I care much more about getting the students alive, and joyful in their bodies.
Some of the most rewarding moments for me as an educator have been when a student has come out of their shell, even just a little. If at the end of my time with them they can lift their arms over their head, or act with their full, embodied voice a little louder that is enough for me. Participation, even engagement itself, is not a binary.
My pedagogy has always been of students first, meaning that, I as their instructor must take care of them and get them to shine through the text/exercise (in conjunction with given context the character).
Knowing also, that I am not necessarily instructing future-theater-artists but rather, well-rounded, empathetic future-humans!"
Charlie is also a skilled Theater Educator working since 2018 at various cultural institutions in the Bay Area and Nor East.
They served as an original member of the Education Workgroup Leadership at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. At SF Shakes, Charlie worked within a Collective Leadership (along with AD, fellow TAs) to reassess, interrogate, restructure educational programming at SF Shakes. This included: creating curriculum; decolonizing/decentering White Supremacy practices; scouting/contracting venues to host programming; selecting/adapting Shakespeare’s plays for summer season programming; researching and implementing EDI work. This past summer of 2024 they had the pleasure of Managing the entire Bay Area Shakespeare Camps program, leading 10 staff members and 100 students through a summer of theater education.
Since 2021 Charlie has also proudly worked at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts teaching in their summer programs: Riotous Youth and Riotous Company. Within these programs, each summer Charlie instructs groups of students (ages 7-18) in Viewpoints, Linklater, text work, clowning (Commedia), stage combat (hand-to-hand, rapier), and history of Shakespeare/Elizabethan Worldview. All this culminates in a glorious performance at the end of each session. Trust him, a 7 year old performing Hamlet is just as potent as a 17 year old (and soooo much better than an adult)!!
At Shakespeare & Company, Charlie continues to serve the Good Work in a number of ways. They have worked in the Training department, assisting weekend workshops led by the formidable Shakespeare visionary Tina Packer. Charlie, this past winter, had the honor to act and teach in their North East Regional tour of A Midsummer Nights Dream performing as Puck (plus 3 other characters) and teaching workshops to student populations from Presque Island, ME to Nantucket!
Very exciting: Charlie will be the newest Teaching Artist on the roster at the Marsh Theater in SF. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
TEACHING STYLE
"With me as the teacher, we always lead with courage and radical empathy.
I serve as a catalyst and not an expert for my students. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers!
I care much more about getting the students alive, and joyful in their bodies.
Some of the most rewarding moments for me as an educator have been when a student has come out of their shell, even just a little. If at the end of my time with them they can lift their arms over their head, or act with their full, embodied voice a little louder that is enough for me. Participation, even engagement itself, is not a binary.
My pedagogy has always been of students first, meaning that, I as their instructor must take care of them and get them to shine through the text/exercise (in conjunction with given context the character).
Knowing also, that I am not necessarily instructing future-theater-artists but rather, well-rounded, empathetic future-humans!"
Charlie as Puck in the North East Tour of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"