Charles Pascoe was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. In 1964 he earned a Bachelor of Science in Education with a major in Speech Pathology at the University of North Dakota and a Master of Science in Speech Pathology at Colorado State University in 1967. After graduation and until 1976, he worked as a Speech Pathologist in southeastern Minnesota, both with elementary school children in the public school and as an Instructor at a local, four-year, private college where, after several years, he created a speech pathology program. Since a Department of Speech Pathology did not yet exist at this college, his initial assignment was to the Drama Department. It was there that his interest turned to theatre, especially playwriting.
    After two successful summers touring Foxtales and Emperor Toad in southeastern Minnesota, he entered a doctoral program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where, in 1981, he earned a Ph.D. in Theatre with a dual emphasis in Playwriting and Child Drama. (The field of Child Drama consists of both Children’s Theatre and Creative Drama.)
    Since 1981 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Theatre at Southwest Texas State University, now Texas State University, in San Marcos, Texas, where he is a Professor of Child Drama and the Director of Children’s Theatre. As Director of Children’s Theatre he conducts a Children’s Theatre Tour each spring semester, bringing live theatre to elementary school children in Central Texas. Each tour also includes a week-long run on campus, usually in the main theatre, for university audiences. All of his plays have been on this tour and have played to as many as thirteen thousand people, mostly children. He continues to write and direct musical dramas designed to entertain children and adults and stimulate them emotionally and intellectually. His unique, original musical children’s dramas, have thus been capturing the imagination, humor, understanding, and appreciation of audiences of all ages.
    A large part of his teaching load consists of conducting courses in creative drama. His students in these courses are primarily elementary education majors. In his classes they learn to appreciate creative drama as an art form and as a very powerful teaching tool. The students learn to employ creative drama methods to teach across the elementary school curriculum."Chuck Pascoe's plays include: Candlestein, Foxtales, Cave Song, Backyard Story, Gecko 43, The Next Amendment, Slavemaker, Rodeo Mongolia, Oracle of the Balcones, A Gathering of Spirits,  Emperor Toad, and Kingfishers 3 and Blue."