CHARLES MARQUARDT

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / SHOWRUNNER / DIRECTOR

Charles Marquardt is an executive producer, showrunner, and director of documentary film and television programs.  His work features celebrities and everyday people with inspiring stories to share.  His favorite projects are always thoughtful, positive, and don’t take themselves too seriously.

Recently, Charles served as an executive producer and showrunner on the first season of Silos Baking Competition for Blind Nil and The Magnolia Network.  He was the showrunner on the first two seasons of Magnolia’s Handcrafted Hotels, and an executive producer on the second season of The Johnny Swim Show.

Prior showrunning experiences include the acclaimed science series HUMAN; The World Within for Netflix and PBS.  Alaska PD on A&E, and The Great American Read for Nutopia and PBS.  He was an executive producer on Undercover High for Lucky8 and A&E, The Horn for Original Media and Red Bull Media House, Borderland for Esquire TV, and Live Free or Die on NatGeo.

Past productions of his company Picture Island include the acclaimed HBO feature documentary A Table in Heaven, co-produced with filmmaker Andrew Rossi; a six-part travel series for Cablevision and Travel and Leisure Magazine; a 50-part series for AOL featuring cooking shorts with Chef Marcus Samuelsson, a six-part series of inspirational stories about teenagers for Mag Rack: Vogue-branded fashion programming for Metro TV featuring Andre Leon Talley; and natural history documentaries for Rainbow Media.

As an editor, his credits include the critically acclaimed feature documentaries “The Curious Case of Curt Flood” directed by Academy Award winner Ezra Edelman, “Control Room,” which documented the media messaging of Al Jazeera and the US Central Command during the 2003 War in Iraq; “Film School,” an IFC documentary series from Academy Award nominee Nanette Burstein; “Press On,” a music documentary from director Gillian Grisman that explores the origins of Sacred Steel music and features Robert Randolph and the Family Band; the first two seasons of the hit shows Moonshiners on Discovery, and MTV’s “MADE.”

He produced documentary and IMAX films for Rosalini Film Productions in Chicago from 1991-1999, where clients included The Lincoln Park Zoo, Liberty Science Center, Audubon Institute, The Museum of Science and Industry, and SC Johnson Wax.

His work has been nominated for two regional Emmy Awards.   

He currently lives with his wife and two boys in New York City.