MY STORY
Get to know Charlie
From my early teens, I have been fascinated with the art of acting. At first, those early years were attached to my need for attention, and an idea of success rooted in public acknowledgment and praise. But as I matured, and began to look at acting as a serious and important art form, I came to appreciate the extraordinary skill set needed to consistently create organic, vivid, fully realized human behavior. It led me through my undergraduate years at Purdue University, and ultimately to graduate school at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, where I had the privilege of studying under master teachers Maggie Flanigan and William Esper. As a young aspiring artist, Maggie instilled in me an inviolate sense of truth, and a deep understanding of craft and artistry. The Meisner Technique which they taught, gave me a way of working, a process that has supported me my entire adult life.
My journey into teaching was unexpected, and my love and passion for training aspiring actors revealed itself to be the creative passion of my life. In 2005, I joined Maggie at her recently opened studio in NYC, mentoring again under her as a teacher of the Meisner Technique. In 2012 I bought the studio, and have continued to take her vision of a serious professional training program forward to a new generation of aspiring artists.
