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Biography
Caroline V. McGraw's plays include Louder, 1983, I Get Restless, Believeland, Ultimate Beauty Bible, The Bachelors, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, The Vaults, and The King is Dead. Her work has been produced and workshopped by Page 73, Lesser America, New Georges, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Theater Ninjas/Maelstrom Collective Arts, Cole Theatre, and the Yale Cabaret; South Coast Rep's Pacific Playwrights Festival, The Lark Playwrights' Week, Abingdon Theater Company, Naked Angels, Washington National Opera/The Kennedy Center, Intiman Theater Festival/One Coast Collaboration, Second Stage, Rattlestick, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Studio 42, 24 Hour Plays, City Theatre, Fault Line Theater, IAMA Theater Company, the Colorado New Play Summit, and Ars Nova, among others. Ultimate Beauty Bible is published by Dramatists Play Service.
Caroline has been comissioned by Yale Rep, and is writing new play commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club/The Sloan Foundation and South Coast Rep. As a librettist, she has been commissioned for opera pieces by Washington National Opera and On-site Opera/Cleveland Opera Theater. Caroline has recieved the Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, and a Tow Foundation Residency. She has been in residence at Portland Center Stage's JAW Festival, Wordbridge Playwrights' Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Caroline is the winner of Young Playwrights Inc.'s National Festival, where her first play was produced, and the AracaWorks Graduate Playwriting Award. She has written two short films, Friendly Neighborhood Coven and Ladies Lounge (both directed by Michelle Bossy and produced by Oscar-winner Mara Kassin), which have played film festivals around the country, including HollyShorts and the St. Louis International Festival. Ladies Lounge received Best Drama at Los Angeles Cinefest 2020.
She is an alum of the New Georges Jam, the Civilians R&D Group, Interstate 73, the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, and the Working Farm. She is a New Georges Affiliate Artist, and was a 2018 Audrey Resident. She is a member of The Kilroys, a grassroots collective advocating for women+ writers on American stages. She is a graduate of the Playwriting MFA program at the Yale School of Drama, where she studied under Paula Vogel.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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