Carla Cantrelle
Actor. Playwright. Novelist.
RECENT
Just performed in the 2025 Spring Forward festival at The Barrow Group in Carla Katz's delightful 2-hander Pop-Up.
I am delighted to continue to be a reader Arlene Hutton's Master Class in Playwriting at the Barrow Group.
Still loving my work as an Improv facilitator for the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, traveling the country to work with amazing scientists at all stages of their careers: grad students, lead PIs at NASA and everything (and everyone) in between!
My short play, Let's Not Talk About Men (published in Best Ten Minute Plays of 2010 by Smith & Krause) has been getting a number of college productions all over the country.
More About Me:
I've appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 5 times, often in my own plays.
Pre-Covid i was a singer for Concerts In Motions, performing folk songs, pop songs, and standards in nursing homes, hospitals, and for homebound elderly in their apartments all over New York City. I have had many moving and heartwarming experiences doing this work.
I was offered a residency at The 78th Street TheaterLab to develop my short piece, Trapeze, into a full-length play. It ultimately became Looking Up, which I performed in Edinburgh and at the Theater for the New City. It incorporated a fair bit of solo trapeze and some partner acrobatics. It also led to a lot of circus in my life!
As a fiction writer I was artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center and the Millay Colony and have participated in Francis Ford Coppella's Zoetrope All-Story Writers Conference and the Breadloaf Writers Conference.