Charlie Irving
Charlie Irving is a writer/performer in Chicago who proudly hails from Prince Georges County, Maryland. Charlie received a Jeff Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance for the Midwest premiere of The Summer of Daisy Fay with her company New American Folk Theatre. As a NAFT company member she has also appeared in the productions of Hot Pink, My Life Is A Country Song, Scraps and Dark of the Moon. Other Chicago theaters that Charlie has had the joy of performing with are Broken Nose Theater, Artemisia, Metropolis Performing Arts Center and Factory Theater. She also appeared in the Nuno Brother's short film Little Things.
Most recently Charlie has been developing her first play Crush. Charlie wrote Crush in The New Coordinates Writer's Room and it was honored with a staged reading which Charlie starred in. Crush was also one of 7 plays chosen for a workshop with Broken Nose Theatre's Off Nights which culminated in a reading directed by Spenser Davis.
Charlie began acting at age 6 in performing arts summer camp and has not stopped creating since. After graduating cum laude from Roosevelt University with a degree in History and Psychology she trained for several years with internationally renowned Meisner master teachers Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole at Gately/Poole Conservatory. She studied improv at Second City, and on-camera and scene study with various Chicago professionals. She also studied with the Bard masters at American Shakespeare Center. Charlie trained in musical theatre, hip hop, and jazz at Lou Conte Dance Studio.
Chicago has been her home base for a decade, and she can often be found lakeside. She dabbles in ukulele, guitar, painting, photography, and modeling.
