Grew up in Erie Pensylviania and San Bernardino CA.  She did commercials for her parents pizza shop when she was 4 years old until she was six.  She won an award for best actress in a commercial when she was six for the TV station which aired her commercials. 

Charese was mostly a Tom Boy growing up with two younger bothers and two little sisters. She lived in the country and BMX road her bikes along with fishing and climbing trees in her three acer parents property.  She started horse back riding when she was 12 years old along with karate and baseball. 


Her and her sibling were always close and looking for new sports and adventures.

At the age of 14 she convinced her mom to take her to LA to take Shakespeare lessons and as soon as she turned sixteen she got her first part in her favorite play “Romeo and Juliet”  She drove an hour and a half to rehearsals three times a week for her one line in the show.  She also got a job right away at Mc Donalds to pay for her classes and gas to get to the show.

At the age of 17 she started Junior college were she got straight A’s and was in the honors program.  She also started the first drama club there and ran it for two years.  She was on the student body senate and started the “Battle of The Clubs”  which still exists on the campus now.  This is where she started producing by producing a Hunted house there on the campus for the drama club. 

When she transfered to the “University of California Irvine”  She joined her sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma and immediately took courses in directing, lighting, costumes, sound and set design as well as acting. In the spring of her first year she was awared the opprotunity to direct her first full length play, a privaledge mostly giving to Gradutate students and rarely to under grads which she was at the time.  She choose “ The Good Natured Man” written by Oliver Goldsmith.  She also at the same time was directing a 15 minute scene from the play “ Cabert”  for her sorority.  During that summer she spent 50 hour work weeks stagemanaging the musical “The Life”  at San Bernardino Valley College.  While working her full time waitress job in Irvine.

Six months after graduation she directed the play “Miricle on Thirty Fourth Street” She then after started “The Rose Theatre”  Here she directed and produced many plays as well as started two improv troops and directed her first short movie “Cowboy in space”

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