Charles Lauder

Charles Lauder gained his first directing experience of Coronation Street with a single episode Episode 3414 transmitted on 22nd July 1992. His credentials proven he returned three weeks later as a regular director and tallied up a further forty two episodes between 1992 and 1994 (three of them co-directed with Mervyn Cumming). He returned for a final ten episodes in 2003.

As well as his directing work, Lauder is a board member of PANDA (Performing Arts Network and Development Agency) and a founder of Talawa Consulting, a company that specialises in diversity and equality matters. He is also chairman of Contact Theatre, vice-chairman of Culture Northwest, member of the Greater Manchester Courts Board and Race for Health Thinking Partner with Lambeth, Luton and Wolverhampton Primary Care Trusts.