North County Players
part of Art Animates Life
Celebrating our first decade!
Dozens of original productions.
Hundreds of performances.
Thousands of attendees.
Tens-of-thousands of dollars raised for community nonprofits!
A big thanks to all who attended Passage Into Fear at
the California Center for the Arts.
We hope to see you when we premiere our newest original show,
Hope Springs, Eternal, Dec. 2024 at the Center!
About Hope Springs, Eternal playwright/director, Charles Carr
Charles Carr is a multiple award-winning, nationally published author (Macmillan/St. Martin's Press/Eldridge/Heartland).
Charles has written thousands of newspaper articles, magazine stories, and columns for the San Diego Union Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, The Reader, The Californian, and many more.Â
Carr has received many writing accolades including recent back-to-back San Diego Press Club awards. Many of his stories, articles, and essays appear in college textbooks published by Macmillan; St. Martin's Press; Bedford, Freeman & Worth; and associated imprints.
Carr is also a noted television producer/director of short documentaries which have aired on Cox Cable and elsewhere.
Carr's background in the world of journalism has created an excellent basis for penning scripts and stage plays, most of which have a classical literature, historical, or true crime footing. His theatrical works have been produced at prestigious venues across the nation and attended by thousands. Works include All the Time in the World, Mark Twain's A Christmas Carol; Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Angels; Mr. Scrooge & Mr. Dickens; Hope Springs, Eternal; and The Dangerous Christmas. Carr's classic thriller, Passage Into Fear, published nationally by Eldridge Plays and Musicals, was performed over ten shows Dec. 2023 at the California Center for the Arts Escondido.
Carr is also author of What a World, a collection of vignettes chronicling twenty years living in the So Cal back country.
Charles Carr