Senior Performing Arts Administrator

Charlie Rouse, Jr., Senior Performing Arts Administrator, is a successful professional Entertainer, Musician, and Educator with 50+ years of experience (100+ productions) in the vast entertainment world controlling finances, budgets, producing, programs, operations, and performances. His education began early on, growing up in the entertainment industry with two prominent, influential parents and all their peers, his father, Charles Rouse, a renowned and celebrated Saxophonist in American Jazz History, and mother an acclaimed dancer in the Savoy Theater and the legendary Cotton Club with Lena Horn. Charlie’s business education in the music industry stems from working with George Wein, one of the most prominent producers in America.