Teaching and Education Work
Charlie with S&Co. Training Workshop
Charlie and fellow Education Artists at Shakespeare & Co.
TEACHING & EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
For nearly a decade, Charlie has proven a skilled Theater Educator working at various cultural institutions in the Bay Area and Nor East including ArtsBridge, SF Shakes, the Marsh, and Marin Shakespeare.
They served as an original member of the Education Workgroup Leadership at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival where they operated within a collective-leadership model 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. Summer of 2024 they had the pleasure of Managing the entire Bay Area Shakespeare Camps program, leading 10 staff members and over 100 students through a summer of theater education (budget of 50k).
Since 2021 Charlie has also proudly worked at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts directing within the Residency Program, and especially: Riotous Youth and Riotous Company. Within these programs, Charlie instructs groups of students (ages 7-18) in Viewpoints, Linklater, text work, Laban, clowning (Commedia), stage combat (hand-to-hand, rapier, broadsword), 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, and managed the Summer Shakespeare Intensive. In 2024, she 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.
For nearly a decade, Charlie has proven a skilled Theater Educator working at various cultural institutions in the Bay Area and Nor East including ArtsBridge, SF Shakes, the Marsh, and Marin Shakespeare.
They served as an original member of the Education Workgroup Leadership at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival where they operated within a collective-leadership model 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. Summer of 2024 they had the pleasure of Managing the entire Bay Area Shakespeare Camps program, leading 10 staff members and over 100 students through a summer of theater education (budget of 50k).
Since 2021 Charlie has also proudly worked at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts directing within the Residency Program, and especially: Riotous Youth and Riotous Company. Within these programs, Charlie instructs groups of students (ages 7-18) in Viewpoints, Linklater, text work, Laban, clowning (Commedia), stage combat (hand-to-hand, rapier, broadsword), 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, and managed the Summer Shakespeare Intensive. In 2024, she 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.
Charlie as Puck in the North East Tour of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"