Charles Andrew Gardner

Charles Andrew Gardner (Captain Horster) is a TimeLine Company Member and Living History Teaching Artist. Previous TimeLine credits include Boulevard of Bold Dreams, Kill Move Paradise (Equity Jeff Award and BTAA nominations–Ensemble), Paradise Blue (BTAA nomination–Featured Actor), and My Kind of Town (BTAA nomination–Best Actor), for which the Chicago Tribune named him one of 2012’s “Hot New Faces to Watch.” Other Chicago theatre credits include Primary Trust, Objects in the Mirror, Stop. Reset., and Buzzer (Goodman); His Shadow (16th Street, Equity Jeff Award nomination–Performer in a Principal Role, Play); How Long Will I Cry (Steppenwolf); Macbeth and Othello (The Suitcase Shakespeare Company); and The Great Fire (Lookingglass). On-camera credits include The Mayor of Kingstown, Somebody Somewhere, Chicago Med, The Chi, and Chicago P.D. and films Heist 88, Long Ride Home, Olympia, Exodus, Every 21 Seconds, and Holding On, plus multiple national commercials. Gardner is the SAG-AFTRA Chicago Local President and an on-camera acting professor at DePaul and Roosevelt universities, as well as an on-camera instructor at The Acting Studio Chicago. He is also the owner and CEO of The Actor’s Cup LLC and Stay Creative Clothing. 

Member of Actors' Equity Association