
Carolina
Stevens
Theater maker.
Story teller.
Photo by Taya Dixon
About
Carolina Stevens is an American theatre artist who has worked in theatre on four continents. Primarily a stage director, she has additional experience in stage management, playwriting, acting, singing, and arts education. As the child of two international opera singers, Carolina has been involved in the performing arts her entire life; in fact, her first production occurred when she was only 5-years-old and starred in a one-act play version of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute that she herself wrote, designed, cast, and helped direct. In many ways, that experience provided the blueprint for her future career, as she has continued to do a variety of jobs in many different theatrical mediums, including straight plays, musicals, Shakespeare, opera, and Commedia dell’Arte. Carolina graduated with honors from Southern Oregon University’s Theatre Arts department, where she focused on Directing and Stage Management with minors in German and Business Administration.
Career highlights include making her professional directorial debut with Master Class by Terrance McNally at Prospect Theater Project; directing an all-female production of Romeo and Juliet at Center Stage Conservatory; stage managing the first western-style opera in the country of Nepal (Arjuna’s Dilemma by Douglas Cuomo with One World Theater); winning the prestigious Valley Talent Project talent competition; singing the Shepherd in Tannhӓuser, the first opera by Richard Wagner to be performed in the country of Albania; and her first original one-act, Buck, winning the Majestic Eight 10-Minute Play Competition.
Coming Up...
King John
by William Shakespeare (staged reading)
Director
Merced Shakespearefest, Merced CA
Spring 2020
Mansfield Park
by Jonathan Dove (US orchestral premiere)
Director
Opera Modesto, Modesto CA
January 11 - 12, 2020
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
by Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
Director
Prospect Theater Project, Modesto CA
November 15 - December 1, 2019
Little Women
by Marisha Chamberlain
Director
Gallo Center Repertory Company, Modesto CA
March 12 - 14, 2020