Hack/Slash Bio: Barbara Charlene

Barbara Charlene (Violence Director) is a Chicago-based Fight Director and Actor, a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, and an Artist-in-Residence with Halcyon Theatre Company. Recent Fight Directing credits include Twelfth Night with Gary Shakespeare Company, The Warzone is my Bed with Halcyon Theatre Company and The Nightmare Room with Towle Theatre. She worked on the first Broadway touring production of Spring Awakening, and was the Assistant Fight Director at Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Crimes of the Heart, directed by Kathleen Turner. She was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Choreography on The Accidental Patriot with Stolen Chair Theatre Company, and has also worked at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Cherokee Historical Association, The Lost Colony and the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. She is the Audience Designer at Theater Wit and performs with Room Escape Adventures in Trapped in a Room with a Zombie. She will be performing next in Accidental Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth, opening October 16th. www.barbaracharlene.com