Carol Damgen

Carol Damgen is an actress, costumer, playwright, producer and stage director, with an MFA in Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside. Recently, she graduated from UCLA's Theatre, Film and Television Professional Program in Acting for the Camera. Her stage credits range from timeless favorites, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and A Flea in her Ear to contemporary works, Other Desert Cities, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Mercy Seat, Les Liaisons Dangerous and Circle Mirror Transformation. She has won seventeen Inland Theatre League Awards for Acting, Directing, Playwriting and Scene Design. Additionally, Carol is a resident director at the Historic California Theatre of the Performing Arts and has presented many modern and classical productions: A Christmas Carol, Closing Credits, Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street, The Great Gatsby, Mamma Mia and South Pacific to name a few. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, AFTRA, the Dramatists Guild and the Vice Chair for the National Playwriting Program for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival-Region VIII. Recently she won Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role from New Threads Theatre Company and Redlands Theatre Festival and earned two Regional awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for best director and playwright to serve a new work.