Charlie began his improv career in 2010, performing with The Big HOO-HAA! in Melbourne, Australia. He went on to become a founding member of The Improv Conspiracy and Impromptunes, as well as performing with Impro Melbourne and Soothplayers, and co-created the mimed improv show Quiet Achievers: “this show is done so well that it’s hard to tell it’s improv” ★★★★ (Herald Sun). He was quickly recognised as “a master of improvisation… a leading force in Melbourne’s improvised comedy world” (Herald Sun).
A leading actor and teacher with the Australian Shakespeare Company and Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art, Charlie moved to London in 2017 to complete an MA in Classical Acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, writing his dissertation on Elizabethan improvisation practices. He now regularly teaches and performs with The Free Association, tours the UK with Impromptu Shakespeare, and has performed in headline shows at Hoopla and the Nursery.
Charlie has trained with The Second City, UCB, The Groundlings, and teachers from iO. As a teacher himself, Charlie takes a holistic approach, both encouraging the inherently messy mischief and complicit playfulness of improv’s low-stakes/blooper-reel/