Carol Karaguez

Contact: ckaraguez( at )hotmail.com

Carol Karaguez received her MFA in Directing/Dramaturgy from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in 2003. Further training includes the Steppenwolf School and Cal State's Summer Arts. Some directing credits include: Real Women Have Curves (College of Lake County), Many Voices (Chicago Dramatists), Sun Sisters (Silk Road), A Lesson Before Dying (Overflow Ensemble), Flood (Amakhosi), When Lithuania Ruled the World (Chicago Cultural Center). Carol is proudly an Artistic Associate for Silk Road Theatre Project and Urban Theatre Company, where she recently served as Dramaturg for their production of "Gandhi Marg" and designed costumes for "Broken Thread".

Directing Experience

Silk Road Theatre Project
365 Days/365 Plays
Sun Sisters
Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith (AD for Stuart Carden)

College of Lake County, Grayslake
Real Women Have Curves

Darknight Theatrical Productions
Super Sunny Silly Camping Fun Time
Darknight Gallery

The Steppenwolf School at Summer Arts
Balm in Gilead (AD for Jeff Perry)

Overflow Theatre Ensemble
A Lesson Before Dying

Chicago Dramatists
365 Days/365 Plays
The Straw
Recovered
Many Voices

Romuva Productions Chicago Cultural Center
When Lithuania Ruled the World Part IV

Amakhosi Theatre Company California Summer Arts
The Flood

Baliwick Theatre Directors Festival
Strange and Useless

The Theatre Conservatory CCPA Roosevelt University
The Beggar?s Opera
Vagina Monologues
A Lie of the Mind
The Bear
This is Gibran
Time of Your Life (AD for Steve Scott)
Tales from the Crib

Central Valley Regional Theatre
The Last Night of Ballyhoo

California State University, Fresno Summer Arts
Dream of Wealth
Theatre of New Voices Culmination

California State University, Stanislaus
How I Learned to Drive
What She Found There


EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, Directing and Dramaturgy 2003
Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt Univ.

The Steppenwolf School Summer Arts 2002
w/Jeff Perry, Sheldon Patinkin, and Kim Rubenstein

The Second City Spring 2001

Non-Profit Management Certificate2001
Roosevelt University

Society of American Fight Directors 2002
with National President Chuck Coyl

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre 1999
California State University, Stanislaus

The Viewpoints Workshop 2002
with creator Mary Overlie

San Francisco Mime Troupe1998
Melodrama/Commedia dell'arte, Summer Arts