TEACHING & EDUCATION LEADERSHIP
Charlie is also a skilled Theater Educator since 2018 working at various cultural institutions in the Bay Area and Nor East.
They currently serve on Education Workgroup Leadership at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. At SF Shakes, Charlie works within a Collective Leadership (along with AD, fellow TAs) to reassess, interrogate, restructure educational programming at SF Shakes. This includes: create curriculum; decolonizing/decentering White Supremacy practices; scouting/contracting venues to host programming; selecting/adapting Shakespeare’s plays for summer season programming; research and implement EDI work.
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!!
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 since 2018 working at various cultural institutions in the Bay Area and Nor East.
They currently serve on Education Workgroup Leadership at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. At SF Shakes, Charlie works within a Collective Leadership (along with AD, fellow TAs) to reassess, interrogate, restructure educational programming at SF Shakes. This includes: create curriculum; decolonizing/decentering White Supremacy practices; scouting/contracting venues to host programming; selecting/adapting Shakespeare’s plays for summer season programming; research and implement EDI work.
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!!
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!