Charles Kruger studied theatre professionally at UC Irvine and has a masters degree in theatre arts from California State University in Long Beach. An active member of the San Francisco literary and spoken word scenes, he can often be seen performing spoken word and poetry at many venues around the city. In addition to writing for examiner.com, Mr. Kruger is Board Chairman of the highly regarded reading series Quiet Lightning and writes regularly for Litseen and The Rumpus. He blogs as The Storming Bohemian at stormingbohemia.com. A painter as well, his art can be seen at charleskrugerart.com. Mr. Kruger is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.