About Mr. C

Harry Culpepper, Jr. is originally from Belton, SC and proudly graduated from Belton Honea Path High School and the Fine Arts Center of Greenville and went on to graduate from Shenandoah University with a BFA in Music Theatre. 

He spent several years working as a professional actor appearing on stages all across the southeast with his longest stint at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN. Other stages include Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre, Playhouse on the Square, Huntington Outdoor Theatre, The Warehouse Theatre, SC Children's Theatre, Spartanburg Repertory Company, Spartanburg Little Theatre, Main Street Youth Theatre and SC Repertory Company.  He has directed productions for the Spartanburg Youth Theatre, Spartanburg Repertory Company, Greer Children's Theatre, Main Street Youth Theatre, and the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina.

He began his teaching career founding the theatre program at the SC School for the Deaf and Blind and then spent 6 years as the Theatre Teacher at the Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts, which earned the 2009-10 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts National Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Award and 2 years at Hilton Head Island High School rebuilding their theatre program expanding production from one annual production to a full season of main stage plays and musicals and one acts.

He serves as one of the Co-Lead Theatre Teachers for Greenville County Schools and holds a Masters of Arts in Arts Administration from Winthrop University. 

In his time at Woodmont the Wildcat Players have won the State One Act Championship winning multiple awards and being filmed for a PBS Documentary, Placed in the top 5 in 4 of the last 5 years, won multiple state level awards and in 2018-19 was names one of the top 4 High School Theatre Programs in the nation by the Educational Theatre Association.