Charise (www.charisegreene.com) is an actress and acting teacher residing in New York City. She graduated in 2009 with an MFA in Acting from the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium, where she was a Stephen Sondheim Fellow. Since then she has played the lead in Emerging Artists Theater's Versailles, the titled role in Trent & Darleen Go to Raj Place at the Living Theater through The Culture Project, the title role in Psyche at the Ensemble Studio Theater, the lead in It Was a Setup with NYC downtown theater company Inverse, and the lead in Mix Tape (written by Brown/Trinity MFA playwright Molly Rice) at Motherlodge. Charise is an Adjunct Lecturer at Barnard and Columbia in the Theater department. This semester she's been teaching Acting Chekhov and, in the Fall, she'll teach Advanced Acting, Intro to Acting, The Audition Workshop and she also be the advisor to the senior acting thesis students.

She did her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, double majoring in Theater Arts and Political Science. At Berkeley she was the recipient of the Mark Goodson Prize for Distinguished Theatrical Talent and the Carol Jackson Upshaw Theater Scholarship. Charise also received the Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts Acting Scholarship and the MacGillavray-Freeman Films Acting Award. In the summer of 2001, she studied at the Actor’s Center in New York.

Charise performed in Trinity Rep's world premiere of Paris By Night. Previous roles at the Brown/TRC include Clytemnestra in Elektra, SkinheadGirl in Polaroid Stories, Nursie in Camino Real, Fanchette in Figaro, Kiosk Worker/Gulnara/Waitress in Bad Money, Thaisa in Pericles, Dulle Griet in Full Circle, and Solange in The Maids. Favorite roles played on the West Coast prior to graduate school include Elektra in Chuck Mee’s Orestes(CAL) Kate in Taming of the Shrew (CAL), Marina in Pericles (Subterranean Shakespeare), Maggie in Lend Me A Tenor (Grove Theater Center), Linda in Holiday (Newport Theater Arts Center) and Banquo/Hecate and others in a 5-person Macbeth (Globe of America).

Charise has taught numerous acting classes, theater workshops and summer drama festivals for children and young adults, from whom she learns over and over again the value and joy of imagination and play in art. She has also taught undergraduate acting at Clark University and she was the Voice and Speech TA at the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium.