Carey Elizabeth Perloff was born on February 9,1959 and is an American theater director, playwright, author, and educator.
12 Facts About Carey Perloff
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Carey Perloff worked as an administrator at the International Theater Institute, then as a casting assistant with Joseph Papp's Public Theater, while launching her directing career off-off Broadway.
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At CSC, Carey Perloff directed the world premiere of Ezra Pound's Elektra, the American premiere of Harold Pinter's Mountain Language, and many classic works.
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Carey Perloff served on the faculty of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for seven years.
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In 1993, Carey Perloff directed the world premiere of Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's opera The Cave at the Vienna Festival and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Carey Perloff has written several plays that have achieved international acclaim.
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Carey Perloff's play The Colossus of Rhodes, which premiered at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, CT, in 2001, was a Susan Smith Blackburn Award finalist.
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Carey Perloff's one-act The Morning After was a finalist for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
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Carey Perloff wrote Bastiano or The Art of Rivalry during a residency at the Bogliasco Foundation in 2019, and Edgardo or White Fire as a commission from the WIlliamstown Theater Festival in 2020.
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Carey Perloff is a recipient of France's Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the National Corporate Theatre Fund's 2007 Artistic Achievement Award.
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In 2011 Carey Perloff won the Blanche and Irving Laurie Theater Visions Award for her play Higher.
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Carey Perloff has written several books focused on discussion or analysis of specific plays.