Charleston Stage, founded by Playwright Julian Wiles in 1978, is South Carolina’s largest professional theatre company in residence at the Historic Dock Street Theatre. Charleston Stage has presented over 150 productions and played to a collective audience of over one million strong. Charleston Stage employs 30+ full-time staff members, guest artists, and scores of actors, dancers, singers and musicians and TheatreWings High School Apprentices. The mission of Charleston Stage is to produce live theatre of the highest caliber focusing on plays which excite and incite the imagination, and include indigenous and original works that celebrate the rich heritage and history of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Charleston Stage celebrates the spirit of discovery by providing a collaborative learning environment in which theatre professionals share their talents with the young people, teachers and schools in the community, and inspire participants to celebrate their own creativity.