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Charlie Bethel is an
actor/writer with four critically acclaimed solo shows to his credit: Beowulf,
Gilgamesh, Seven Poor Travellers, and Tom Thumb, or, The
Tragedy of Tragedies. He has also worked as a stage manager,
producer, electrician, milliner, director, and properties and set
dressing artist.
Theaters: Trinity Rep, Utah Shakespearean Festival, North Carolina
Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Econo-Art Theater
Company, Red Bones, Next Theater Company, Apple Tree, The Jungle Theater,
The Guthrie Theater, The Childrens Theatre Company, Hey City Stage,
Minnesota Opera, Opera Memphis, Southwest Shakespeare Company, Walking
Shadow, Chopping Block, Key City Public Theatre, Baltimore Shakespeare
Festival, Cape May Stage and CalibanCo, to name a few.
In addition to the theater work, Charlie has worked as a creative
consultant for the Diamond-Star /Mitsubishi Motors Company (Normal, IL),
as a writer for Red Farm Films (Seattle), and as a filthy joke generator
for the Innovisions Greeting Card Company (Chicago). He's also,
naturally, been a barista at Starbucks, a beggar in Daley Plaza, a
cleaner of baby poo, an angry sonneteer, and a propagandist for the Shedd
Aquarium.
His solo performances have been presented all over the US: from The Clay
Center for the Arts & Sciences (Charleston, WV), to Cincinnati
Playhouse, and a couple of Fringe Festivals, to Joseph Campbell's
Centenary Celebration at the Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA--which was a
total blast), to the Mythic Journeys Conference in Atlanta. Charlie's
solo work delights audiences large and small, educated and not,
well-heeled and plain spun.
He’s currently working on a
solo version of The Odyssey to premiere at
Orlando Shakespeare Theatre in March, 2013.
Charlie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and he
comes from a long line of talkers. Recently he was featured on the History
Channel's series, Clash of the Gods as a commentator on,
you guessed it, Beowulf. See the contact page if
you'd like to start a conversation!
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