Producing Director - Carolyn German
photo by Rob Stack
Carolyn’s producing credits include Artstravaganza, (’97 and ’99), a 4-day multi-discipline arts festival, where she brought together highlights of many new theatrical works. She also worked with Green Room Productions to produce 1999’s critically-acclaimed one-man show, “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol”, which she also co-directed and co-adapted. As the producing director of Theater Craft Inc., Ms. German, has produced “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, and “The Story Builders” for Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Education and Outreach.
“The Story Builders”, written and directed by Ms. German, is a play for family audiences which was seen by over 9,000 students through the Tennessee Performing Arts Center Education and Outreach Program. The “hip, imaginative” play (Kevin Nance, The Tennessean) was chosen as the “Best Production of 2003” (Kevin Nance, The Tennessean), and has been called “the cleverest, richest, most delightful and provocative play for young (and not so young) people I have come across in years.” (Eric Booth, Faculty: The Juilliard School, Tanglewood, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center Institute).
Ms German was commissioned by TPAC Education to write a sequel to “The Story Builders”, which is titled “The Six Bridges”. Her moving drama “Minor Repairs” received a staged reading in May of 2004, and is scheduled for a spring ’05 premiere.
Carolyn’s performance credits include everything from Off-Broadway to cruise ships, including over 25 projects with Tennessee Repertory Theater (ranging from Val in “A Chorus Line”, to Mae in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, to Maria in “Twelfth Night”.) She also received the 1998 Fellowship for Acting granted by the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Under her direction, Theater Craft, Inc has been responsible for providing a wide variety of continuing education opportunities to actors and directors in the Nashville area. These offerings span from acting classes for adults and youth taught by Ms. German, to a “Directing Shakespeare” 3-day workshop, led by Chris Hayes of London Theater Exchange. As a private coach, Ms. German has worked with numerous actors, as well as with recording artists Billy Dean and Rhett Akins.
German is currently heading-up several new projects for Theater Craft, Inc: Connye Florance’s “Jazz Rhapsody”, and Elizabeth Davidson’s “Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Literary Soldier”, as well as her own new musical “No Early Birds”.