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About Charles

Charles has extensive experience across a wide range of live creative mediums, always valuing artistic and technical excellence. His career spans commercial musical theatre, mega-events, stadium and arena shows, government projects, arts organisations and experiential strategy as a producer, technical director and consultant.

In a varied career throughout Australia and around the globe, Charles has undertaken producing and management on projects such as Senior Show Producer for World Expo 2020 Al Wasl Plaza Daily Productions (Artists In Motion), Segment Producer and Projection Content Producer for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony (Jack Morton), Event Producer for Ballet Under the Stars 2016-2019 (The Australian Ballet), 2013 Centenary of Canberra (ACT Government) and a range of roles and companies as part of Vivid Sydney 2011 – 2016.

Through his company, Sketch Evolution, projects have included Producer for Hong Kong Dance Company’s Australian Premiere and tour of The Legend Of Mulan, the Destination NSW Exclusive event for Australian Tourism Exchange 2017 providing an unique experience and “taste of NSW”, Miss Sydney Chinese Pageant, Miss Melbourne Chinese Pageant, Production Consultant for Love Never Dies in Japan and Germany and subsequent tours to USA and other territories. Charles also consults for a wide range of companies in production development, international tour brokering, developing flexible creative systems and processes, as well as destination and experiential strategy both in Australia and overseas.

In technical direction and coordination, he has been involved with, amongst other projects, The Edinburgh Military Tattoo and T20 Cricket Opening Celebration (Michael Cassel Group), Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour (Opera Australia), Sydney New Year’s Eve (City of Sydney), Strictly Ballroom The Musical and Muriel’s Wedding The Musical (Global Creatures), Beatbox and The Fire Machine at Dreamworld (JB World Events) and World AIDS Day (Cre8ion).

Charles is passionate in developing new productions and creating IP for the world stage. He has experience in raising investment and sponsorship, creating complex multi-national high-value commercial budget models and deal structures, maintaining creative integrity, identifying, creating and leveraging strategic opportunities and having a savvy and sensible approach to the business of live entertainment.

In 2016/17 Charles acted as General Manager for the hugely successful creative company Ample Projects, which conceived new precincts for one of Australia’s largest annual events; Vivid Sydney, as well as develop creative strategy and produce activations throughout mainland China, USA and Australia. Charles started engaging professionally with Asia when he worked for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s company, The Really Useful Group, planning and coordinating first class musical touring and licensing of products including The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies and CATS (among others).

When Charles co-founded Sketch Evolution ten years ago the company developed an important focus on Asia. He is a frequent visitor to Japan (and is learning to speak the language) where he consults on the import, export and development of major theatrical products, and actively looks to engage with the Japan market. Through Sketch Evolution, Charles continues to collaborate with various other partners throughout the Asia region as a production, technical and creative consultant, tour broker and producer. He is extending the company’s reach with collaborators and partners in a range of territories apart from Japan including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. These days Charles’ connections also extend to the USA, Britain and parts of Europe.

Having started as a young orchestral musician and working in lighting departments throughout Sydney, Charles attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art in Production. He has always prided himself on being able to speak both the creative and technical languages, communicating through a wide range of technologies. He has the skills to see the big picture, liaising with a variety of stakeholders and maintaining attention to detail across all aspects of development and delivery.