CHARLES LEGGETT AEA
Seattle, WA
Height: 6’1
Weight: 235
Eyes: Green
Hair: Gray/Brown
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: Letter Writer #1, Tiny Beautiful Things, dir. Courtney Sale; Karl Lindner, A Raisin in the Sun, dir. Timothy McKuen Piggee; Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem, Sir Charles Baskerville, Frankland, The Hound of the Baskervilles, both world premieres dir. Allison Narver; Don, American Buffalo, Dave Moss, Glengarry Glen Ross, both dir. Wilson Milam; Lennie, Of Mice and Men, dir. Jerry Manning; Carl, Opus, dir. Braden Abraham; Sir Toby Belch, Twelfe Night, dir. David Esbjornson; Brighella, The King Stag, dir. Andrei Belgrader; Mortimer Durham, The Constant Wife, dir. Kyle Donnelly; Sturdyvant, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, dir. Jonathan Wilson.
ACT THEATRE: Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, dir. John Langs (2015), & Spirit 2 (2002-06, ’08, ’14), dir. Kurt Beattie, R. Hamilton Wright, John Langs; Gooper, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, George Brown, The Pitmen Painters, Joe Foster, Becky’s New Car (world premiere), all dir. Kurt Beattie; Victor Franz, The Price, Sheriff, The Trip to Bountiful, both dir. Victor Pappas; Ben, The Dumb Waiter, dir. John Langs; Ray, Yankee Tavern, dir. Steven Dietz.
SEATTLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE: Joe Martin, And in This Corner, Cassius Clay, dir. Malika Oyetimein; Pa, Grandpa, Actor C, Into the West, BFG, The Big Friendly Giant, Barlow, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (world premiere), Corporal Pumpkin, Johnny Tremain (world premiere), all dir. Rita Giomi; Coach, Mendoza, Sportswriter, Honus and Me (world premiere), dir. Steven Dietz; Judge, The Magic City (world premiere), dir. Linda Hartzell.
SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE CO.: Canon Chasuble, The Importance of Being Earnest, dir. Victor Pappas; Enobarbus, Antony and Cleopatra, Ghost, Player 1, Gravedigger, Osrick, Hamlet, Shylock, Merchant of Venice, Foole, King Lear, all dir. John Langs; Sir Oliver Surface, School for Scandal, dir. Rod Ceballos; Gremio, Taming of the Shrew (2003, 2005), dir. Stephanie Shine. Wooden O (outdoor park tour): Falstaff, Merry Wives of Windsor, dir. Corey McDaniel; Prospero, The Tempest, dir. George Mount.
INTIMAN PLAYHOUSE: Schoolch, Bulrusher, dir. Valerie Curtis-Newton; Arnold, Hir, dir. Jennifer Zeyl; James T, Barbecue, dir. Malika Oyetimein; Franklin, John Baxter Is a Switch Hitter, dir. Rosa Joshi; Roy Cohn, Angels in America, Narrator, Stu for Silverton, dir. Andrew Russell; Phlaccidos, Lysistrata, Doctor, Cop, Musician, The Streetcar Named Desire, dir. Sheila Daniels.
PORTLAND CENTER STAGE: Andrew Undershaft, Major Barbara, Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing, Liputin, The Devils, all dir. Chris Coleman; Sorn, Stupid Fucking Bird, dir. Howard Shalwitz (a remount of the world premiere production).
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PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE: Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, dir. Brian Weaver.
BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE: Bounderby, Hard Times, dir. Julie Beckman; Reverend Wiggin,
An Owen Meany Christmas Pageant, dir. Jane Jones.
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VILLAGE THEATRE: Brannigan (u/s Arvide—5 perf.), Guys & Dolls, dir. Billie Wildrick; Oscar Madison, The Odd Couple, dir. Jeff Steitzer; Tranio, Taming of the Shrew, dir. B.J Douglas.
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5TH AVENUE THEATRE COMPANY: Asa Keyes, Saving Aimee, dir. David Armstrong.
FILM: Tom (supporting), Outside In (with Edie Falco), Lynn Shelton/Duplass Bros./Long Shot; “Pook” (supporting), Rock Paper Scissors, Peter Wick/Azzurri; Salesman (principal), Crimes of the Past (with Elizabeth Röhm), Garrett Bennett/Josephine LLC.
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AUDIO BOOKS for Cedar House Audio: Over 20 unabridged titles, including Dwight Holing, Paul Russell, Colleen McCullough, Harold Robbins, David Carr, Kurt Anderson, Patrick F. McManus, Kelley Armstrong, Louis Bayard.
SPECIAL SKILLS: Blues harmonica; dialects (various American, British Isles and European).
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TRAINING: B.F.A. (Honors) Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA 1985-1989.
Theatre Puget Sound “Gregory” Award, Shylock (2009); “Gregory” nominations, 2009-11, 2019.
Stranger Genius Award nominations, 2009 (Shylock) and 2015 (Roy Cohn).
Image: Stone, interior wall, ruins of an ancient chapel roughly the size of an outhouse, Inis Mór (Leggett)
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