charles kartali
Lecturer (part-time)
B.F.A., Case Western Reserve University
Acting
B.F.A., Case Western Reserve University
Acting
Office: Eldred Hall
Phone: 216-368-2858 x1
E-mail: charles.kartali@case.edu
Mr. Kartali is a part-time Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Case Western Reserve University, where he teaches Introduction to Performance. He has worked primarily as a professional actor in theatre throughout the Midwest, New York, Colorado and Florida, and as a guest director and dialect coach in Illinois, Ohio and West Virginia. Regionally, he has worked at American Stage, Aspen Theatre in the Park, BoarsHead, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Shadowland, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and The American Classics Festival, among others. Select Cleveland acting credits include A Christmas Story, Trumbo (with Robert Vaughn), Tuesdays With Morrie and the upcoming Bill W. and Dr. Bob with the Cleveland Play House; Pangs of the Messiah, Brooklyn Boy and Awake and Sing with the Mandel Jewish Community Center; The Price and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Ensemble Theatre; The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? and The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at Dobama and A Bright Room Called Day at Cleveland Public Theatre.
Directing credits include Noises Off (GVT), Ears on a Beatle (Dobama), The Shape of Things (Ensemble) and Amadeus at The Hermit Club in Cleveland, Ohio. Charles has also worked as dialect coach on productions such as Doubt and The Chosen (CPH), The Cripple of Inishmaan (GVT) and Sideman, The Weir, Bad Seed and Full Moon (Ensemble). Other credits include Fusion Fest, CPH (2006-09); Artistic Associate, Ensemble Theatre (2002-2003) and the Victory Gardens Readers Theatre. Film and TV includes the independent short film, High Spirits and "Lost Subs" for National Geographic Television as well as various commercial and industrial credits. Mr. Kartali is also a competition judge for the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition (2001- present) as well as an alumnus of WordBRIDGE, a national playwrights' laboratory modeled after its predecessor at the Sundance Institute and sponsored by Clemson University in collaboration with the Generous Company, since 1996. He has been a proud member of the Actors' Equity Association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild for over two decades.