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Actress, Producer, Writer, Director
Author of "Ride On The Curl'd Clouds', 'The Pony Breeder's Companion', & numerous essays on Theatre
Founder and Artistic Director
ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS: 1998 to present.
New Hampshire Theatre Award for Excellence in Children's & Youth THeatre, 2008; Runner Up for Best Director of a Professional Production (Twelfth Night), 2006
Caroline is the third generation of her family to act professionally, a career passion she has shared equally all her life with a passion for writing and horses. After many years of publishing in national and regional Equine publications and working as a professional coach and trainer, she became a regular performer in theatres throughout New Hampshire, as well as spending ten years touring New England and beyond with Starbird Puppet Theatre & Underground Railway Theatre. She also teaches ongoing community adult acting classes with an emphasis on Shakespeare, works in film and video, and is a workshop leader for 'No Holds Bard', a participatory introduction to Shakespeare's plays for high schools and community groups.
During the 90's, Caroline saw a growing need need for a professional, community-based theatre company that could bring Shakespeare's works to life for and make them accessible to underserved schools and communities in northern New Hampshire. She developed Advice To The Players in 1998 to feed that need, and to offer area teens the opportunity to learn technical, life, scholastic, and co-operative skills by working directly with ATTP's core theatre professionals in every production in a unique mentoring capacity that remains the cornerstone of the company's work. What began as one show per year in the dead of New Hampshire's late winter has mushroomed into a vibrant small company that produces three plays per year (2 Shakespeare, one of these outdoors in the summer), employs a number of area theatre professionals, and engages dozens of teens in every facet of theatre production from the stage to the lighting booth.
As an essayist and theatre writer, Caroline's work has appeared in numerous journals, theatre and equine publications, and regional magazines including 'American Theatre', 'Teaching Theatre', 'TheaterMania.com', 'The Boston Globe', 'Horse, of Course', 'The Equine Journal', 'Commonweal', 'The Thoroughbred Times', 'Creative Nonfiction', etc. In the 80's she published & edited the small journal 'Connemara Country', and in 1995 published her first non-fiction book, 'The Pony Breeder's Companion', with Howell Book House.
Caroline received a BA in History from Kenyon College in 1973 and further theatre training from Shakespeare & Company. She lives on a farm with her family and an assortment of homebred Connemaras and other animals both domestic and wild.
