Carol Dunne

Carol Dunne is a Senior Lecturer of Theater and the Producing Artistic Director of Northern Stage, a LORT Theater in White River Junction, VT.  Carol created the Acting for Musical Theater curriculum at Dartmouth and also teaches Acting 1 and Acting II. At Dartmouth she has directed The Rocky Horror Show, Hairspray, Angels in America, Eurydice, Chicago, Cabaret and Rent. In 2010, Carol was awarded Dartmouth's Distinguished Lecturer Award. As Artistic Director of Northern Stage, Dunne launched the Dartmouth/Northern Stage Experiential Term, an unprecedented program to create a bridge for Dartmouth students into the professional theater world. In 2017 Carol was asked to lead the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation's BOLD Theater Women's Leadership Circle which has given over $10 million to propel women+ into major theater leadership. Dunne also leads the Dartmouth Neukom Literary Arts Award for Playwriting which gives Dartmouth students the opportunity to work on a professional staged reading of an award-winning new play. Northern Stage directing credits include the critically acclaimed productions of Our Town, Into the Woods, Good People, Beauty and the Beast, Disgraced, Mamma Mia, and many more.  Carol holds a B.A. from Princeton and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She teaches Acting I, II and Acting for Musical Theater.