Carolyn Guido Clifford is a playwright, director, choreographer and arts educator. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of California, Riverside's Low Residency program. She was previously the Associate Director of Education and Community Engagement at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where she led the Off the Grid series, a program creating site-specific theatrical experiences for young professionals, and oversaw audience engagement strategies for the mainstage season. Carolyn has also served on faculty at Xavier University and held the role of Director of Education and Community Engagement at Cincinnati Ballet. Her play The A-List was workshopped at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati in 2018, and in 2021 she was...
Carolyn Guido Clifford is a playwright, director, choreographer and arts educator. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of California, Riverside's Low Residency program. She was previously the Associate Director of Education and Community Engagement at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where she led the Off the Grid series, a program creating site-specific theatrical experiences for young professionals, and oversaw audience engagement strategies for the mainstage season. Carolyn has also served on faculty at Xavier University and held the role of Director of Education and Community Engagement at Cincinnati Ballet. Her play The A-List was workshopped at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati in 2018, and in 2021 she was commissioned by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for their PodPlay series, resulting in the audio play Akin. As a director, Carolyn is passionate about new play development and has directed works including The Color of Leaves by Isaiah Reaves, My Geriatric Uterus by Lormarev Jones, and in a stand of dying trees by Shannon TL Kearns. She is new to Los Angeles, where she hopes to continue to create work that is accessible to new audiences.