About T Charles Erickson Photography

T. Charles Erickson has been a professional photographer since 1979.While working as the Yale University photographer for six years beginning in 1981 he began pursuing a freelance career which led him to the specialty of photographing performances for theatre, dance and opera companies around the country. Beginning with the Long Wharf Theatre in 1984, Mr. Erickson has continually expanded his client roster and reputation as the photographer for many of the dominant theatres on the national scene with past and present clients including Hartford Stage Company, the Yale Rep, Princeton's McCarter Theatre, Boston's A.R.T. and Huntington theatres, Houston's Alley, San Diego's Old Globe, Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Lincoln Center, in addition to numerous independently mounted Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Mr. Erickson has also worked with an impressive spectrum of fine artists over the years, documenting the work of Barnett Newman, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Ann Hamilton, Tony Smith, Chris Burden, Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel among many others. His photos are regularly featured in Time, New York, ArtForum, American Theatre and most major newspapers in the U.S. He has more than eighty magazine and book covers to his credit.He has been the subject of profiles in The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, Stage Directions, The New Haven Register and American Theatre. Mr. Erickson is a 1979 graduate, in Art History, of the University of Massachusetts and has lived in the New Haven area since that time. Clients Include: Long Wharf Theatre Hartford Stage Company The McCarter Theatre The Huntington Theater Company Lincoln Center Theatre Classic Stage Company Westport Country Playhouse Two River Theater George Street Playhouse The Guthrie Theatre The Alley Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ford's Theatre Syracuse Stage The Playwrights Realm A.R.T. Yale School Of Drama Yale Repertory Theatre Williamstown Theatre Festival