Charlie McEwen

Charlie McEwen (born July 15, 1981) is an American artist & performer best known for working with Carwardine Parks and Renald-Zanni Entertainment.

Biography
Born in in the, Charlie moved to  when he was 3 years old.

In 1987, he went to Goodtimes Amusement Park in for his 6th birthday. While seeing a The Get Along Gang live show, he was waved at by the performer for Montgomery Moose. This was his favorite moment of the day, and inspired him to pursue walkarounds as his job opportunity.

In March 2000, at the age of 18, he applied for a job with Carwardine Parks' DFW District (Camp Carwardine and Goodtimes Amusement Park). He was assigned to Camp Carwardine, where he portrayed walkaround characters in live shows.

In 2003, his custom stages for live shows for PBS Kids (where he performed as Darren the Mole Miner) and Nick Central (performing as SpongeBob) caught the attention of Dept. 2 Productions, allowing him to land a job in the art and live show departments. While at Dept. 2, he attended the, and also fell in love with Jo Vizard, an actress who performed Dongwa Miao and Woolma Lamb at Carwardine Colony. They married in 2012 at in Plano, Texas and had a daughter in 2014.

Charlie also got to co-perform Darren with Jessie Mallinson and other performers in two Mole Miner stage tours in 2005-06 and 2008-09.