Biography

Charlotte Arrowsmith is a British actor and theatre director. She is Deaf and uses British Sign Language. When she turned 19, she enrolled in a BA Hons Theatre, Arts, Education and Deaf studies course at the University of Reading, after which she started an acting career in actingr, centered around theatrical productions. She was cast as the prophetess Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida (Royal Shakespeare Company), performing in Sign Language or using a creative mix of BSL, 'home' signs, gestures and visual vernacular. Other credits include Moonbird (Handprint Theatre), Midsummer Night's Dream and Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare Globe/Deafinitely Theatre) and Great Odds (Mac Arcadian).