Carolyn Cantor

Playwrights Horizons: Fly By Night, The Great God Pan, After the Revolution (Callaway Award), and Essential Self-Defense. Other NY Theater:  Regrets and Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club); In A Dark Dark House (MCC Theater); Arlington (Vineyard); Something You Did (Primary Stages); The Talls (Second Stage); Core Values (Ars Nova); Orange Flower Water, Now That's What I Call A Storm, Living Room in Africa, Stone Cold Dead Serious, and Life is a Dream  (Edge Theater); EVE-olution (Cherry Lane); and Kitty Kitty Kitty (SPF).  Regional: The Violet Hour (Old Globe); Rabbit Hole (Geffen, Garland Award); Diary of Anne Frank (Papermill); Not Waving and King Stag (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Vera Laughed and Get What You Need (NYS&F); After Ashley and Finer Noble Gases (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference); and Nocturne (Ojai Playwrights Conference). Carolyn is the recipient of the Kanin-Seldes Award from the Theater Hal of Fame, both the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a Drama League Directing Fellowship.  She was the founding artistic director of the Obie Award—winning Edge Theater and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. (As of 2/2/15)

• “FLY BY NIGHT will enchant audiences. Off-Broadway’s answer to The Fault in Our Stars. Romance doesn’t come any sweeter than it does in this winsome love triangle set around the time of the 1965 New York blackout. The score is charming and catchy. Its unabashed emotionalism could turn it into more than a hit. It could turn it into a cult phenomenon.”

  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post

• “Gracefully directed by Carolyn Cantor, the first-rate cast gleams with professional polish. The score is guaranteed to take up longtime residence in your ear.”

  — Ben Brantley, NY Times

• “Magical. A terrific cast. Adam Chanler-Berat is a gifted comic soul. Patti Murin’s spot-on comic timing is delightful. Allison Case is just swell. Michael McCormick is hysterical. Peter Friedman’s turn is piercing and truthful. ”

  — Robert Kahn, NBC-NY

• “A sweet natured romantic fable. The cast is brimful of talent. ”

  — David Cote, Time Out NY

• “An all-around feel-good experience. The musical's sweetness and affection for its characters is refreshing, ”

  — Robert Feldberg, Bergen Record

• “Genuinely moving. Writers Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick and Kim Rosenstock conjure magic. ”

  — David Finkle, Huffington Post

• “An impressive mix of raw talent and heart. The production under Carolyn Cantor's smart direction really does manage to fly. ”

  — Roma Torre, NY1