Biography

At age 53, Run Like A Girl is Charlotte Lettis Richardson's first major film. Ten years ago Richardson decided to go to film school. She enrolled in the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon and for her final project made Run Like A Girl.

A national caliber runner in the seventies, Charlotte thought she would make a film about something she knew a lot about. Charlotte had run the 800 and 1500 meters, cross country, and road races in the early to mid seventies. In 1975 she won the L'eggs Mini Marathon in Central Park. Also that year she placed fifth in the National Cross Country Championships. In 1976 she made the Olympic Trials in the 1500 meters. Charlotte was the first women to run and win in the prestigious Mt. Washington Road Race. In her running career she won numerous New England and Regional track and cross country titles and was consistently ranked nationally in the mile and 1500 meters. Charlotte graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1976 with a degree in Theatre and a minor in Women's Studies. After college she ran competitively for Nike and later became their promotions director for women's running.

Charlotte has coached track for over thirty years at the high school, college, and club level. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon with her two sons Hank and Sam, and her husband Kirk Richardson.