Charles E. Wallace has worked as an administrator for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center where his responsibilities included managing the work study students and overseeing the daily operations of the school. He has also held the position as office manager for Multiple Choice, a small luggage and handbag company, where his duties included: accounts payable and receivable, executing payroll, determining employer and employee taxes and daily operations.
Charles has worked at New Professional Theatre (NPT) for the past year on a part time and volunteer basis. He directed It’s a Man Thang for NPT’s Writers Festival and assisted Ms Davis, NPT’s artistic director, on producing Single Black Female off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
Mr. Wallace attended Michigan State University and The Fashion Institute of Technology before securing a scholarship at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Center where he completed his studies in dance. He has studied voice with renown teacher Therman Bailey and completed a two year acting program with the celebrated Meisner specialist William “Bill” Esper, former department head at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School.
Charles was a principal dancer with The Louis Johnson Dance Theatre and The Mafata Dance Company before continuing his career as an actor and musical theatre performer on and off the Broadway stage. His Broadway credits include: John in Miss Saigon, Smokey Joe’s Café and Jekyll & Hyde. Off-Broadway, Charles starred as Boss/Chase in the critically acclaimed Roundabout Theatre production of Dinah Was and was featured in George Wolfe’s Harlem Song at the world famous Apollo theatre.
He has recruited and taught students for the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey’s outreach dance program. And has taught dance at Detroit’s Marygrove College, the Detroit City Dance Center and Cleo Parker Robinson’s Dance Center in Denver, Colorado. |
