US Accent Livestream with Charley Layton

Host(s)

• Charley Sanders

  Charley is a director, performer, and writer, and Co Artistic Director of House of Sand. She holds an Adv. Dip. Arts (Acting) from AC Arts and an MFA (Directing) from NIDA and has received an Adelaide Critics Circle Award, numerous Fringe Awards from festivals around Australia and New Zealand, and nominations for an ATG Curtain Call Award, a Broadway World Award and two further Adelaide Critics Circle Awards. Directorial credits Include That Was Friday, Pedal, Castles, Fear of Eggs, all h0urs, REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. and The Split (HoS) Welcome The Bright World (HoS & STCSA), Titus Andronicus; Mother Courage; O Go My Man; Slavs; 5 Years (ACArts) Trans Scripts (Paul Lucas Prod. NYC) Infected (NIDA) Love Child, Seven Jewish Children, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later and Like A Fishbone (Early Worx). As assistant director: Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera Australia), Maggie Stone (STCSA), Julia (STC) As a performer Charley has appeared in King Lear (STCSA), Sweeney Todd (ACArts), RENT (Catchy Title) and Angels In America (Papermoon), and created and performed two sellout, award-winning solo cabaret’s A Modest Exhibit and Queer. She most recently understudied the role of Dexie in Triple X by Glace Chase for the Sydney Theatre Company. In Addition to her core practice, Charley has experience as a teacher of acting and directing, drag artist, dramaturge, producer and tour manager. She is qualified and regularly works as an audio describer for blind and low vision audiencs and works as a business consultant to creative entrepreneurs through Creative+Business. Among many arts management, mentorship and advocacy roles, Charley has held positions including Programs Producer for the Sydney Fringe Festival (2019 to 2021) and Program Manager Pride Amplified for Sydney World Pride (2022). Charley is the LGBTQIA+ Identified Co-Chair of the MEAA Equity Diversity Committee for the 2023-4 term and a proud life-long Equity member. Charley is a director, performer, and writer, and Co Artistic Director of House of Sand. She holds an Adv. Dip. Arts (Acting) from AC Arts and an MFA (Directing) from NIDA and has received an Adelaide Critics Circle Award, numerous Fringe Awards from festivals around Australia and New Zealand, and nominations for an ATG Curtain Call Award, a Broadway World Award and two further Adelaide Critics Circle Awards.  Directorial credits Include That Was Friday, Pedal, Castles, Fear of Eggs, all h0urs, REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN. and The Split (HoS) Welcome The Bright World (HoS & STCSA), Titus Andronicus; Mother Courage; O Go My Man; Slavs; 5 Years (ACArts) Trans Scripts (Paul Lucas Prod. NYC) Infected (NIDA) Love Child, Seven Jewish Children, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later and Like A Fishbone (Early Worx). As assistant director: Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera Australia), Maggie Stone (STCSA), Julia (STC) As a performer Charley has appeared in King Lear (STCSA), Sweeney Todd (ACArts), RENT (Catchy Title) and Angels In America (Papermoon), and created and performed two sellout, award-winning solo cabaret’s A Modest Exhibit and Queer. She most recently understudied the role of Dexie in Triple X by Glace Chase for the Sydney Theatre Company.  In Addition to her core practice, Charley has experience as a teacher of acting and directing, drag artist, dramaturge, producer and tour manager. She is qualified and regularly works as an audio describer for blind and low vision audiencs and works as a business consultant to creative entrepreneurs through Creative+Business. Among many arts management, mentorship and advocacy roles, Charley has held positions including Programs Producer for the Sydney Fringe Festival (2019 to 2021) and Program Manager Pride Amplified for Sydney World Pride (2022). Charley is the LGBTQIA+ Identified Co-Chair of the MEAA Equity Diversity Committee for the 2023-4 term and a proud life-long Equity member.