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Featuring Interview Guests, Producer, Founder, and Creative Strategist, of Impossible Creative, David Galpern, and Producer, Stage-Director, Writer, Tech Entrepreneur, and Studio Executive of Impossible Creative, Charles Roy; and Performance Guest, New Orleans Based Artist, Musician, and Composer, Evan Oberla, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 870
Interview Guest: DAVID GALPERN and CHARLES ROY; and Performance Guests: EVAN OBERLA
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CHARLES ROY
Charles is a director, writer, producer, composer and newly minted tech entrepreneur as co-founder of Impossible Creative – an emerging company in the field of immersive entertainment.
Charles’s career began in 2000 when he directed and produced a small immersive piece of independent theatre in Montreal. The play starred his roommate, David Galpern, and was an unlikely hit. It justified to his parents the need for him to take a gap year before carrying on to medical school. He’s still on his gap year.
Soon thereafter, he and David started a theatre company in Toronto called The Classical Theatre Project – which became North America’s largest producer of classical theatre for teens. Through CTP, Charles adapted, directed and produced hundreds of shows which garnered Dora nominations (Canada’s Tonys), several North American Tours, and audiences in the millions.
For twenty years, he was one of Canada’s leading theatre artists, freelancing across the country, directing over 90 productions for such companies as Pleiades Theatre, the World Stage Festival, and many others. His production of the Sanskrit classic play Shakuntala, which he translated, adapted and directed was invited to Vancouver as part of the 2010 Olympics.
His plays have been performed across North America and his articles have been published in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star (Canada’s two largest daily newspapers) and Toronto’s NOW Magazine – at the time, Canada’s largest entertainment weekly. A freelance editor, he has served as a researcher, reader and Associate Editor at Penguin and Doubleday, specializing in Asian and Chinese literature.
In 2009, Charles co-founded CTP Media with David Galpern, a media company that creates art and entertainment across multiple platforms. Through CTP Media, Charles created multiple properties that have resulted in the development of a number of films, Broadway scale shows, TV shows, graphic novels, and video games. Along the way, they also built the LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE (Toronto) a multi-purpose live event complex that fuelled the transformation of the Ossington Neighbourhood into the hip destination it has now become.
A few favourite experiences from his theatre days were: a collaboration with James Rado (original book writer of HAIR!) where they re-wrote the book of the musical from scratch: and a revival of ROMEO AND JULIET in Nashville, TN, that was so racy it led to an explosive culture war between Canadian and American media.
Another was a revival of CATS with an infamous hologram at the end that launched him (and David) into the world of tech integrations for the stage.
Since 2019, his focus has been fixed on developing immersive technologies, first with ArtsDistrict and then at the Impossible Creative lab in Toronto. With ArtsDistrict, his largest project was in the creation of ArtsDistrict/Brooklyn, a cavernous and cutting-edge immersive entertainment venue in Brooklyn. With Impossible Creative, his last show was in Riyadh for the United Nations Cop16 Conference called ‘Our Land. Our Future. The WonderRoom Experience’ and was seen by about 200,000 people over ten days.
A notable educator, Charles has also lectured extensively, including at York University’s Devised Theatre Programme and the Toronto Film School’s Film Directing Programme. A great deal of his educational philosophy stems from the pioneering writings of Bengal’s Rabindranath Tagore.
Charles has a BA from McGill University, an MFA in Theatre Direction from York University, and is a Fellow of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.
He is fluent in English, French, Italian, Bengali, Hindi and Sanskrit – although don’t test him on Hindi and Sanskrit. Those are pretty rusty.
His work blends Indian and European dramatic and educational philosophies, a reverence for the spiritual power of beauty in all of its forms, and a deep commitment to the functional ability of storytelling to create community out of thin air.
Find, Follow, and Feel Into Charles Roy’s Offerings at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-roy-666213313
