Charlie Oates: Art and Music in Physical Characterization (3/24 & 3/31)
In-Person Workshop CHARLIE OATES: Art and Music in Physical Characterization Two Monday Evenings Dates & Times Monday, March 24, 2025 – 6:00pm-9:00pm Monday, March 31, 2025 – 6:00pm-9:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Director, movement coach, and educator Charlie Oates returns to The Actors Center to lead a workshop investigating the use of visual art and music as a way to explore or enhance physical characterization. Every now and then, any creative artist needs a new perspective to shake things up. Actors are no different. The goal is to provide actors with creative tools in order to widen and deepen the range of possibilities as they create a character in rehearsal Since it is critical to join physical technique and expansive creativity, we will also focus on sharpening clarity of expression in our physicality and building a discipline of specificity. In the end, we want movement in performance that comes from both an open and free creativity and a focused and dynamic body. Sessions run Monday evenings 6:00pm-9:00pm. About Charlie Oates For nearly 40 years Charlie Oates taught in actor training programs and universities focusing on the physical training of actors. The majority of his career was spent at the University of California, San Diego where he served for several years as department chair and received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016. As a movement coach and fight choreographer, Oates has worked at numerous theaters including La Jolla Playhouse, The Mixed Blood, The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, San Diego Rep, Chautauqua Theatre Company and the Denver Center Theatre Company. He has been a guest artist in leading actor training programs in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Senegal, Sweden, and China. His years as a creator and performer of original physical theatre works, director and street performer have taken him across North America, the Pacific and Europe. His original work includes Truck Dog  (with James Donlon), which toured the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Ireland and with Czech Performers, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic; Staying Married (with Moira Keefe) which played throughout the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Ireland and his solo work Man Overboard, also seen internationally. He has directed over 50 productions at theatres, MFA programs and universities including, Flush at Theatre Alfred in Prague,  Save You, Hate Me in Berlin and Fuatia's Future for the Calico Young People's Theatre of New Zealand, Fool for...

