Charles Payne is a Madison transplant, a certified teacher, and self-taught social artist, originally from Michigan. Payne is a Shop One Educator/Artist Residency Finalist and a 2022 TMT New Play Development Playwright. Their play 'Da Classroom Ain't Enuf' was an American Players Theatre New Voices: Creating the Classics of Tomorrow semi-finalist and a Wisconsin Wrights 2022 New Play Development project finalist.\n\nPayne is an Isthmus contributor, a Madison Magazine contributor and the Arts + Literature Lab's inaugural ALL Originals Prize winner.\n\nCharles Payne - One Water Madison [https://onewatermadison.org/about-residency/2022-charles-payne/]\n\nSRTN Podcast Website [https://www.somethingratherthannothing.com/]