- Dancer, children's author and illustrator. He headed the Children's Theatre and Literature Department at Sarah Lawrence College from 1967 to 1971 and many of his works have appeared in exhibitions of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
- Founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Charlip never fully recovered from a stroke in 2005.
- Charlip began his artistic career as a painter.
- One of two children with Max Charlip and Sara Charlip, Russian immigrants to Brooklyn, New York. His father was a house painter and his mother ran the family grocery store and wrote poetry.
- He earned a Bachelor's Degree from Cooper Union in New York City. HE studied dance at Juilliard School in New York City.
- He was awarded 2 Obie Award in 1965 for his work with the Paper Bag Players and in 1966 for Best Director for the piece, "A Beautiful Day," performed at the Judson Poets Theater in Greenwich Village in New York City.
- He is survived by his two nephews, Charles Blair and Steven Blair.
- He was a founder of the children's theater program at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He also taught at Sarah Lawrence College in New York; Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Bates College; and the University of California in Santa Barbara, California.
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