WRITER - PRODUCER - SCRIPT CONSULTANT
PLAYS
Charlie Schulman was born and raised in New York City. He writes screenplays, television, plays and musicals. As a theater producer/writer his collaborations with composer/lyricist/producer Michael Roberts include THE FARTISTE (Best Musical: International/NYC Fringe, Productions: Off-Broadway and Charing Cross Theatre, London’s West End) and GOLDSTEIN (Nominated for Best New Musical by The Off-Broadway Alliance). His play (MARRIED LIFE /SIBLING RIVALRY) was presented by Cincinnati LAB Theater at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023. Other plays include ANGEL OF DEATH, (Charles MacArthur Award for Comedy) THE GREAT MAN, (Walton Fellow Arena Stage) THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT, (Outer Critics Circle Special Commendation - Young Playwrights Festival) THE GROUND ZERO CLUB (Playwrights Horizons - YPF) and CHARACTER ASSASSINS (New Jersey Rep). Regionally he has premiered new work at New Jersey Rep, The Magic Theater (San Francisco), and Theater J. (Washington D.C.) Charlie has sold television pilots to CBS and 20th Century Television. He has written sketch Comedy for the Apollo Comedy Hour (Inner City Broadcasting/Tribune Company.) He teaches Playwriting and Screenwriting at New York University and is on the MFA faculty at Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann School of Creative Writing. Charlie is a sought after script-consultant/script-doctor for independent producers, screenwriters and playwrights . As a writer-for-hire in 2023/24 he wrote the short films; THE KARDASHIAN KOMPLEX, and MAN VERSUS MUSK. He was also commissioned to write THE BASEBALL RULE (co-written with Jordan Skopp) His plays are published by Stage Rights, Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Dell/Bantam and Applause books. He lives in Washington D.C with his wife and daughter.
TEACHING
CLASSES & PRIVATE ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS
Charlie is and Adjunct professor in Open Arts at New York University’s Tisch School of The Arts. He is on the MFA Faculty at Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann School of Professional Writing. Charlie has developed several Online Screenwriting courses for NYU’S Special Programs that have been taken by screenwriting students all over the world.
Charlie is a sought-after script-consultant, writer-for-hire. and script-doctor. He has script-consulted for film producers, professional screenwriters and student writers of all levels of experience.