Charles Parkinson

Charles has recently returned from the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit as one of only two participants from Tasmania invited to contribute to the Towards a Creative Australia discussion.

Charles was, for ten years, the Artistic Manager of HotHouse Theatre, Australia’s most successful regional theatre.

He trained at Flinders University Drama Centre and has worked in Australia and the USA as a director, lighting designer, actor and arts administrator. Charles has directed shows for the Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne Festivals and was Artistic Director of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus for five years. He was Artistic Director of Breadline Theatre and CIRKIDZ and General Manager of Mainstreet Theatre and has also worked for Sydney Theatre Company, Nimrod, The Theatre of the Deaf and Zootango Theatre.

Charles directed the Twentieth Anniversary Show for the Flying Fruit Fly Circus and recently co-directed a HotHouse Theatre and Flying Fruit Fly Circus co-production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Kim Walker.

Charles is a member of the National Advisory Group for the Australian Script Centre, he has been a member of the Australian National Playwrights Centre’s Artistic Advisory Panel and a member of the Regional Advisory Panel for La Trobe University.

Charles was a member of the panel advising the Minister on Victoria Commissions projects and is currently a peer assessor for the Australia Council for the Arts. He was the inaugural Chair of the Victorian Regional Arts Fund, a director of the Border Trust Community Foundation and an executive member of the Regional Arts Board of Albury Wodonga.

Charles has also completed an extended consultancy with Ten Days on the Island.

You can contact Charles by emailing him at charles @tastheatre.com (Manually type this address without including the space shown. It is included here for spam protection purposes only)