About Carol
Carol Schlanger is a professional award winning actress and writer, best known for her honest, fearless and outrageously funny work. She’s billed as “a baby boomer’s answer to Lena Dunham.” A native New Yorker, Carol first received notice and rave reviews as ” The American Housewife” at the New York Public Theater. Carol is a graduate of Yale Drama, where she began her professional acting and writing career working with Improv Guru, Paul Sills at the Body Politic in Chicago. Since, she has worked consistently in film, television and on stage. Her plays have been produced both in New York and L.A.
Carol has worked as a staff writer for Imagine Television and created two pilots, Back to the Garden and Hello Pilgrim for CBS. Her one-woman play, Mouth to Mouth (1995) received L.A. Critics Awards for Acting and Writing. She was the 2011 winner of the L.A. playwrights story slam. A much in demand storyteller, she performs in high-end venues throughout L.A including The Moth, Sparc, Tasty Words, the JWT and I Love A Good Story.
An old hippie, and lifetime organic farmer, Carol’s memoir, Hippie Woman Wild, about a 22 year old urbane radicalized New York actress from privilege and Yale, who joins her cowboy lover, Clint, in a the back-to-the land movement of the 1970’s to live on a commune in the Oregon wilderness. Her authentic and multi-layered story is the unheard female voice of a generation.”
Book Agent:
Diane Nine, Nine Speakers, Inc.
ninespeakers (at) usa (dot) net.