THEATRE AND DANCE
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BREAKING NEWS...
TENURE GRANTED!!!
(Your)
Opera in a Trunk currently in its fifth season...
WHO IS DAVID CHARLES...?
Please see Upcoming and Current Productions for an up-to-date listing of performances happening in the area. Click here for a complete resume. Interested in workshops, master classes, performances or show rights? Contact me at DCharles@Rollins.edu
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Email: Address: Phone: (407) 646-2546 |
| David Charles, PhD |
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Click here for a complete resume |
Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park, FL 32789 |
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Dr. David Charles received
his Ph.D. in Theatre History, Criticism and Dramatic Literature from
Louisiana State University where he served as a Board of Regents and
Graduate School Fellow, Theatre Instructor and Part-Time Lecturer. He
also holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Performance from Western Illinois
University, a B.A. (Hons) in English and Acting from Roosevelt
University, and is a graduate of North America’s oldest
improvisational training center, Josephine Forsberg’s Players Workshop
of Second City. David has performed across North America with
companies such as Wisdom Bridge, Shaw Chicago, the Illinois
Shakespeare Festival, Birmingham Children’s Theatre, Summer Music
Theatre and the Beechwood Theatre Company, and his performance as
Colonel Winslow in Evangeline the Musical in Concert has aired
nationally on PBS. Recent scripted directorial work includes
Playhouse Creatures, The Triumph of Love, Twelfth
Night, Pack of Lies and Doubt..JPG)
In addition to considerable experience in the scripted realm, David
has performed extensively as an improvisational practitioner – the
primary area of focus for his dissertation, conference presentations
and current research. As an improviser he has played with such
companies as Dunedin Theatresports (in his birth nation, New Zealand),
Chicago Comedysportz, Players Workshop, Astor’s Beechwood, the School
of Playback Theatre, the Orlando International Fringe Festival, Orlando’s SAK Comedy Lab, Pleasure Island's
Comedy Warehouse and was the founding
artistic director of Baton Rouge’s premier long-form improv troupe,
The Improvisors, whose work was featured in the arts magazine
Country Roads. He has created, directed and improvised in numerous
improvisational projects for his own improv companies and former
universities, and for groups such as Chicago’s Night Players, Lansing
Community College, the Union Program Council of L.S.U., SAK Comedy Lab
and Pensacola
Opera. David has also taught acting and improvisation at the
professional, college, community, high school and amateur level and
conducted workshops across the United States and New Zealand. .JPG)
David’s original directorial works include: Insta-Musical: Just
Add Water, Scared Scriptless, Ancient Ties: An
Exploration of Motherhood, The Lost Comedies of William
Shakespeare: An Improvisational Romp Through the Land of the Bard,
Championship Improv, Making It Up As We Go Along, E
Pluribus Unum, Thou Shalt Not: A Postmodern Melodrama,
Variations on a Theme, (Your) Opera in a Trunk, FourPlay:
The (Improvised) Musical, ImprOvientation, Cut To... and the
groundbreaking two-act long-form, The Renga. His latest longform creation, Murder We Wrote: The
Improvised Whodunit debuted to acclaim on the Annie Russell
stage in Spring 2008. Currently, he is in the early stages of
developing It's All Greek to Me: An Aristophane-slapping Comedy of
Tragic Proportions. David is also creating a comprehensive
improvisational theatre training cycle for university-aged students
and acts as the Artistic Director of the well-established on-campus
troupe, R.I.P
(Rollins Improv Players).
