Charles Caldwell

Born and raised in Cleveland, OH. I am a father of 5 boys and a hardworking husband. I do all that I can to support my family and give them the things I never had. I always aspired to be an actor ever since I was 17. I got my first role in a play in Cleveland Public Theater STEP program in 1994. It was just a summer job at the time that became life long passion. I was recruited at the Collinwood High School in Cleveland during my search for a job that summer. Raymond Bobgan of Cleveland Public Theater introduced himself and his Theater program to me and it sound like fun. Once in I learned so much about Theater but the main thing I learned is how much I loved it. I practiced and memorized monologs and awed my peers at my ability to memorize and act them out. Embodying the character handed to me on the page. I landed a starring role as JD in a play we as a crew wrote and build the stage for. I not only was in each scene but performed monologs between each scene to push the story forward of a young man tragic journey out of the hood. I went back in 95 and landed a role as the Cheshire Cat in an off shoot of Alice in Wonderland called Concrete Wonderland. I lost my grandmother who raised me that summer. Between summers I was called and asked to do an emergency fill in a play called Imagining Jenny at Cleveland Public Theater. In 96 I lost my grandfather and was not able to participate in the program. I went back for my final year in 97 where I played a bumbling friend named Cletus in a play written and stage build by us called A Killer Among US. My character was the killer but played the role of goof very well concealing and proof that he could perform such an act. Losing my grandparents and starting a family at an early age made me lose sight of my vision. But this is a vision I still want to see and my family to see. I want to entertain you.