NEW YORK
The Flame Keeper | Amos Kamil (The 47th Street Theater) *
Dutch Heart of Man | Robert Glaudini (The Public Theater) *
Race, Religion, Politics | Stephen Adly Guirgis (HERE Arts Center) *
Fur | Charlotte Miller (Access Theater) *
Jesus Hopped The A Train | Stephen Adly Guirgis (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
Scotch & Water | Brett C. Leonard (Parkside Lounge) *
Swimming Naked | Fia Perera (Altered Stages) *
Roger and Vanessa | Brett C. Leonard (Center Stage) *
Moonlight Mile | Stephen Adly Guirgis (HERE Arts Center) *
How the Other Half Loves | Alan Ayckbourn (Inner Space Theater)
Boom Boom Boom Boom | Stephen Adly Guirgis (Center Stage) *
Waiting for Da Bus | Stephen Adly Guirgis (John Houseman Studio) *
Francisco & Benny | Stephen Adly Guirgis (One Dream Theater) *
REGIONAL
Swimming Naked | Fia Perera (Tamerind Theater, LA) *
The Flame Keeper | Amos Kamil (Luna Stage, NJ) *
Two Gentlemen of Verona | William Shakespeare (Center Theater, Chicago)
Love and the Piano | Georges Feydeau (Vermont Stage Company)
ASSISTANT DIRECTING
References to Salvador Dali | directed by Jo Bonney (The Public Theater, NYC) *
Neil Simon's Hotel Suite | directed by John Tillinger (Roundabout Theater Co, NYC)
Road to Mecca | directed by Amy Saltz (Indiana Repertory, Indianapolis)
*Development and premiere of a new play
Directing Fellowship | The Drama League, NYC. Member Labyrinth since 1993
Fringe First Award | Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Jesus Hopped The A Train" by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Immediately after getting his MFA in directing, which included a two-year Meisner program with William Esper, Charles joined Labyrinth Theater Company to direct Stephen Adly Guirgis’ first play. The humble production at a small theater in TriBeCa was a success, so for years afterward Stephen and Charles continued to collaborate on main stage premieres for Labyrinth. Those included RACE RELIGION POLITICS at the HERE Arts Center in SoHo starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, MOONLIGHT MILE starring John Ortiz and Liza Colon-Zayas.
While continuing as director and dramaturg for Labyrinth, Charles garnered good reviews for his other Off-Broadway productions. One was Amos Kamil’s THE FLAME KEEPER, which opened at Luna Stage in New Jersey. The critic for the Times wrote, “The director, Charles Goforth, knows where the priorities are...a rewarding theatrical journey…The Flame Keeper is Luna Stage's finest hour." This production to moved Off-Broadway to the 47th St. Theater where it ran successfully for three-months and garnered more good reviews.
When Labyrinth accepted an invitation from The Public Theater in NYC to become the resident company, the company asked Charles to direct the inaugural production, DUTCH HEART OF MAN. Ben Brantley, the chief critic for the Times wrote, “Directed with a steady hand by Charles Goforth…for a youth culture that has zestfully embraced blue-collar chic—from hard-hat to trailer-park—no theater is hipper than Labyrinth. Dutch Heart of Man should only add to its cachet.” In over twenty-eight years with Labyrinth, Charles has directed about a hundred workshops and staged readings for the company.
As part of his directing fellowship with The Drama League, Charles assisted John Tillinger at the Roundabout, and worked with Neil Simon on the premier of his production of HOTEL SUITE.
Most recently Charles is the director and producer of the fiction podcast, THE LOVELY DARK, whose first season of twelve episodes was selected for publication as an audio book, which is now available on Audible as THE LOVELY DARK: SEASON ONE.