Charlie Romano is a Latin American Composer by way of México and Panamá. Charlie is passionate about telling people’s untold stories. His recent work includes CALL ME FROM THE GRAVE (2021 O’Neill Finalist, 2023 ASCAP Workshop), the story of Blues icon Robert Johnson (who, legend has it, sold his soul to the devil), THE ORDER OF CHAOS, an original musical about conspiracy theories and the people who fall into them (Equity reading at The Public, fall 2025), ONWARD AND UPWARD, a musical adaptation of Bridget Carpenter’s play Up (The Man In The Flying Chair), a show about a family’s struggle to find meaning and stability, and WORD NERD, a musical comedy about a crossword-based game show and its eccentric host. He is also currently working on TITA, a new musical about his Panamanian-immigrant grandmother (an extraordinarily energetic polyglot whose life touched countless others around the world). Charlie recently completed the 2023 ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop with Stephen Schwartz. While in LA, Charlie was also selected to write an original song for the ASCAP/Netflix presentation on Music for Children’s TV. He is also the winner of the 2023 ASCAP Founda