Charles Andrew Callaghan
- Actor
- Writer
Charles Andrew Callaghan is an award-winning screenwriter and actor. In 2017, he won both the Emerging Screenwriters Competition with his near-future science fiction pilot REDSHIFT, and the Final Draft's Big Break Contest with his period legal drama PORTIA'S LAW (co-written with his mother, Hana Callaghan). In the same year, various scripts by Callaghan were finalists for the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, The Screencraft Pilot Launch Competition, the Cinequest International Film Festival, and LA Femme International Film Festival, as well as ranking in the top 20% for the Nicholl Fellowship.
Callaghan studied playwriting at Yale under Donald Margulies, where he was also the school's first out gay sex-and-dating columnist. He received an MFA in acting from the National Theater Conservatory and spent several years writing and performing in theaters across the country. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.
Callaghan studied playwriting at Yale under Donald Margulies, where he was also the school's first out gay sex-and-dating columnist. He received an MFA in acting from the National Theater Conservatory and spent several years writing and performing in theaters across the country. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.