Carol Dunne

EnTrance Theatre Talk

Carol Dunne is the Producing Artistic Director of Northern Stage, regional non-profit LORT-D professional theater company in Vermont with a mission to change lives, one story at a time. Now in her sixth season, she brings a wealth of experience from her former position as Producing Artistic Director of the New London Barn Playhouse, a company she transformed from a semi-professional summer stock theater to one of the most successful summer theaters in New England. Since 2013, Dunne and her team have overseen the $9.2 million Campaign for Northern Stage, which culminated in the opening of the theater’s new home, the state of the art Barrette Center for the Arts. During Carol’s tenure, she has introduced the development of new plays to the Northern Stage repertoire with New Works Now, an annual new play festival, and directed many times on the mainstage. In 2017, Dunne received a $1.25 million grant from the Pussycat Foundation to further women in the American theater, which she used to start the BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle, a cohort of five professional leaders run by women to support female artists and leaders in the field. Dunne also serves as an award winning Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College. She joins us today from White River Junction, Vermont.