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Biography
Awards: Finalist, Tennessee Williams Fiction Prize 2017 for What Wolfman Knew, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival; His play Cream Cakes in Munich was awarded 1st prize in the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Contest 2016; 2015 Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation LGBT Playwrighting Award for A Kind of Marriage, an AABB Foundation development grant, London UK, 2017. The Kleban
Foundation Award for Librettist, 2001; New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) 2010 Excellence in Writing Lyrics; Finalist for the Fred Ebb Foundation Award in Songwriting 2005, 2006 & 2008. Winner of the Global Search for New Musicals, Cardiff, Wales, 2005. His musical Frog Kiss received the most Citations for Excellence at NYMF 2010, regional premiere at Virginia Stage Co.,VA, 2013. Swimming at the Ritz, an intimate portrait of Pamela Churchill Harriman, toured the UK in 2010/2011 supported by the Arts Council England; American premiere at New Jersey Rep, NJ, 2015; Enchanted April, a new musical romance, with music by Richard B. Evans, world premiere, April 2016, Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre, CA. His adaptation of Helene Hanff's comic memoir, Underfoot in Show Business, received its U.S. premiere at the Deertrees Theatre, July 2016; and was first presented at the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne, UK, May 2008, directed by award-winning BBC director, David Giles. His original musical, Me and Miss Monroe, featuring Rachel York as Marilyn, was produced in an industry workshop by AMAS and Chase Mishkin, 2011. Charles is a former Fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. A native of Chicago, a graduate of Northwestern University, a member of the National New Play Network's New Play Exchange. Charles lives and writes in New York City and is a member of The Dramatist's Guild and ASCAP.
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