ABOUT

Charles is a multidisciplinary actor, theatre maker, creature performer and movement director who works with some of Europe & the UK’s leading Physical theatre, Performance Art theatre and Visual theatre companies such as Theatre RE (UK), Broken Crow (Ireland), Volya Theatre (Norway), Mechanimal (Bristol) & Animikii Theatre (Manchester). As a physical theatre performer and devised theatre maker Charles is known for his fusion of embodied theatre practices and visual/performance art practice. 

Originally he trained in Fine Art at Kingston University BA(Hons) and created a body of work that explored the audience/artwork relationship, making performance interventions and installations that played with the dynamics between the work and the viewer. The sculptural, performative and theatrical nature of this practice lead Charles on to train as an actor and theatre maker at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, RADA’s MA Theatre Lab.

He has now fused his practice as an artist with his work as a physical performer to create new, experimental screen and physical theatre performances. His work in animal physicality and creature creation has opened the world of creature performance, motion capture and performance capture. Charles is represented as an actor and creature performer by Carey Dodd Associates.

Portrait by Anna Levin

CURRENT

  • THE RAVEN: Charles is writing a solo performance art theatre adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's elegy to loneliness, grief and transformation.

  • FORESTS: Charles is editing experimental theatre/film production 'forests', a film that explores climate crisis.

  • As a creature performer, Charles will be appearing in a new Disney & BBC series. More news coming soon.

Reviews

“bringing a burning conviction …the remarkable performance of Kaspar, spiritual, then whirling into a fury, displaying a huge range of emotions, taking in the whole stage in his giant stride.”

Reviews Hub

The Kaspar Hauser Experiment

By Animikii Theatre 2023

“Malice is ramped up skilfully. His insecurity, the void lurking at his core, spreads like fungus through the flat, their lives, her heart….His features transmogrify from dreamy to nightmarish, his height suddenly scary, his perfect teeth an American Psycho snarl.”

Artsculture

Us Against the World

By Rosie Race 2024

“Sandford as basin-haired, bespectacled Rob, gives a note-perfect and sympathetic performance...a masterclass in how to do funny-sad.

the stage

The Poetry of Exile

by Peter Hamilton, 2019

“Sandford’s very physical portrayal as the barbaric Titus is tremendous. He gives an intense, energetic and mesmerising performance. "

stagereview

Titus Andronicus

by Luvus Theatre, 2017

This is a raw performance; bare skin, bare teeth and bare vocals...The movement and storytelling is primal"

Edinburgh Guide

Origins

by Animikii Theatre, 2016

Photo by Anna Levin