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)

• “CRITIC’S PICK. HAUNTING, DEEPLY AFFECTING, AND UNFAILINGLY HONEST. Amy Herzog is one of the bright theatrical lights of her generation. The actors embody their characters with impeccable precision. Under the attentive direction of Carolyn Cantor, "The Great God Pan" is not something I'll soon forget.”

  — Charles Isherwood, New York Times | Read Full Article

• “REMARKABLE and REVELATORY. Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like "The Great God Pan." ”

  — Jesse Oxfeld, NY Observer | Read Full Article

• “Within its fascinating parade of alternate possibilities, [Herzog] has packed a set of big, beautiful, perpetually troubling questions, moral and philosophical. The work is tiny, but it runs deep. Carolyn Cantor's production is taut and quietly pitch-perfect.”

  — Michael Feingold, Village Voice | Read Full Article

• “BEAUTIFULLY CONCEIVED. Herzog ("4000 Miles" and "After the Revolution") sets up intimate and touching scenes, in which wordless moments reveal seismic epiphanies.”

  — Jennifer Farrar, AP | Read Full Article

• “CAPTIVATING. Herzog’s deepest, most mature writing to date. How many playwrights display this kind of economy and strength?”

  — Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly

• “4 STARS. CRITIC'S PICK.”

  — Adam Feldman, Time Out NY