Carol’s Bio

A core member of HB Studio's acting faculty for over fifty years, I have taught hundreds of actors at all levels of experience in workshops and master classes across Canada, in London, Copenhagen, Montevideo, Melbourne, Lodz, Tbilisi and Barcelona. I also developed the curriculum that led to the Rutgers University MFA program and for many summers, taught acting for the National Theater of the Deaf training program. 

In Arthur Bartow's Training of The American Actor, which was published by TCG in 2006, Uta Hagen entrusted me with the responsibility of writing the update on her teaching. For that chapter, I chose to focus on the technique exercises found in A Challenge for the Actor.

I have been indeed fortunate to have worked with Tony Goldwyn, Keanu Reeves, Lolita Davidovitch, Stephen Bogardus, Rosa Salazar, Joy Behar, Debra Monk, Luis Homar, James Saito, Kerry Armstrong, Thom Sesma, Beverly Elliot, Frances Flanagan, Marlee Matlin, David Gibson, Sandra Oh, Julie McKee, Robert McQueen, Luke Kirby, Allan Hawco, Rosemary Dunsmore, Sheila McCarthy, Anne Marie Cadieux, Carly Street, Raoul Baneja, Severn Thompson and Kanji Furutachi – in their formative years. 

What a gift – to do work that isn’t work. When I am in the room, engaged with my students and the plays we are working on – I am grateful. When people ask me when I am going to retire, I respond, I hope never. 

INFLUENCES: My mother, my father, my husband, our son and my grandchildren, my life choices, my high school drama teacher - Sylvia Furlong, Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof, Edith Meeks, my colleagues, fellow artists, and my students.