Traveling has been a lifelong passion of mine, ingrained in me from birth. My father, a successful corporate executive, moved us from city to city, climbing the corporate ladder. By the time he passed away when I was 15, we had lived in four states, five cities, and eight different houses. After his death, my mother became a schoolteacher in South Georgia, where I was surprised to meet classmates who had never left their hometown. I had always believed that everyone traveled.
My love for travel continued after college. I attended grad school, pursued my dreams of acting and directing in New York and Los Angeles, and worked in regional theatre across the United States. I’ve visited 49 states (still need to check off Alaska) and driven across the country 11 times. In my 40s, I began exploring the world, broadening my horizons beyond the U.S.
Aside from traveling, I am an award-winning filmmaker and theatre director, author, performer, and producer with both national and international credits in all these categories currently based in Atlanta, GA. I lived in Los Angeles for several years where I taught theatre and film studies at several Southern California universities and served as the Producing Artistic Director of the ATTIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE in Los Angeles from 1987 to 2016, and the Artistic Director of SkyPilot Theatre Company from 2017 to 2021.
As a director and producer, I has overseen the production of over 400 plays and films covering a wide range of genres including musicals, Shakespeare, and new works. My plays and films have won numerous awards. As a filmmaker, I known for such award winning films as Love Potion (2023), A Cost of Freedom (2022), Divorce During Pandemic (2020), Fancy Meeting You Here (2019). My two features – Madly (2021-Co-Director) & Alternative Endings (2022-Co-Director) have won Film Festival Laurels all over the world.
In 2012, I formed CAREY ON CREATIVE, LLC/ATTIC STUDIOS to focus on personal creative projects which have included this blog, traveling, and international directing and teaching. I have worked in Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, Italy and the UAE. In 2013, my one man show, COMING TO ZIMBABWE debuted at the Harare International Festival of Arts and toured southern Africa. My musical revue, COME TOGETHER has toured both North America and Africa. My second award winning one man show MI CASA SU CASA debuted in 2018 touring the fringe festival circuit in the USA.
Since arriving in Atlanta, I have been very busy acting in films and TV(COLOR PURPLE THE MUSICAL, DIVISION, COLLATERAL INTEREST and more), directing film and theatre (4000 MILES and DOUBT), and published my first book of fiction – Three Days in Hamburg & Other Stories.
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