Charlie Silke
Charlie Silke is an actor, playwright, and director in his final year of TU Dublin Conservatoire’s BA in Drama (Performance), graduating in May this year. In 2022, he graduated from The Lir Academy with a Foundation Diploma in Acting and Theatre Studies.
In addition to his formal education, he has completed several courses that explored specific aspects of theatre in greater depth. In 2022, he took part in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’s five-week Shakespeare Summer School in London, and in 2019 he attended the Young Actors’ Summer School at the Globe Theatre, London.
Alongside his training, he has ten years of experience as a theatre actor. He was actively involved with Dublin Youth Theatre from 2018 to 2024 and performed in many DYT productions, working with a wide range of directors. In 2019, for example, he performed in the devised play The Sleepwalkers (Dir: Gavin Quinn) at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, which was later restaged as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival at the Axis Theatre. He has also performed outside of DYT, playing the role of Fate 2/Theo in a professional production of Most Peculiar Dreams (Dir: Juliet Hill) in 2023, and again in 2024 when he was invited to reprise the role.
He was involved in TU Dublin’s Project 962 last year as both a playwright and director. He wrote Fallen Angels and directed Echoes of Solitude and Woodhouse.
He is currently seeking representation. He is Dublin-based, living in Kimmage, and his playing age is 18–27.
