Caroline Garland
Range:16 - 25 Skills : Singing (Mezzo Soprano), Highly Skilled
improvisation and devised theatre, skin
Height: 5’3’’ work.
Eyes: Blue Accents: Native in ESSEX, SOUTH EAST. Good
ear for accents. Performed in LONDON,
Build: Petite YORKSHIRE, IRISH, GENERAL
AMERICAN, AUSTRALIAN.
Spotlight: 2335
Hair: Dark Blonde
Training: Bretton Hall College of Arts, BA Hons Acting (Devised Perf).
Caroline Garland
Caroline trained at Bretton Hall College of Arts with a BA Hons in Theatre Acting and Devised Performance.
Recent work includes Alice in ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS at The Tobboca Factory in Bristol; AN AUDIENCE OF ONE (Laboratory season for Ladder to the Moon) Marianne in a re-working of the French classic Les Caprice de Marianne- CAPRICE (Coup de Theatre), Frieda in DOES A MONSTER LIVE NEXT DOOR? at the Edinburgh Festival (Tall Stories), LIVE/WORK (site specific for Bold & Saucy), THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD (Tall Stories), JUNCTION (site spec. for Ladder to the Moon), Joan in FAR AWAY (Bristol Old Vic), WILD ANIMUS (European tour- Void), Lady Ann in RICHARD III (Tower of London, Bard Unbound), CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Lincoln’s Inn, Bold & Saucy) and Weird Sister in MACBETH (Brentwood Theatre).
Caroline is an Associate Artist for Ladder to the Moon and is a co-founder and associate director of devised theatre company Kilter, whose first site specific piece REMOTE PATROL received excellent reviews in June.
She has done various new writing projects for the Kings Head and Blue Elephant and has also featured in several short films.
Press Quotes
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 2008
"....there would be little danger of attention wandering from Caroline Garland's utterly absorbing performance as Alice. Credible as the lonely, overly imaginative nine-year-old, Garland brings a perfect nervous edge and energy to her journey through the unknown. She has a face that brilliantly captures the kind of quizzical look you might have when flowers start singing to you and the Queen thinks she's a shopkeeping sheep."- 5 stars THE GUARDIAN.
AN AUDIENCE OF ONE 2007
Caroline Garland and Oliver Langdon performed an extraordinary feat in this piece of street theatre. The entire performance was devised and rehearsed on the actual streets around Clapham Junction in nine chilly days; they played main characters Barry and Rose flawlessly... presented a complex, hard-hitting drama about three generations of a family facing hard times. It was like a live action Mike Leigh movie: improvisational, tense and realistic. (Londonist)
DOES A MONSTER LIVE NEXT DOOR? 2007
Frieda is a wonderful mix of over-eager, arrogant, bumbling and resourceful... and the fun, good-hearted nature of the girl detective keeps the story moving...(the Herald)
...Detective Freda (played to great comic effect by Caroline Garland) arrives to help unravel the mystery.(the List)
this show....raises the bar by dealing with bereavement (the Scotsman)
JUNCTION 2006
Devised between the actors and Director .... this site-specific story responds beautifully to its railway station environment. The space was well studied and moments of the piece were powerful in their imagery.... Clapham Junction becomes cinematic and beautiful....But what Junction creates is far too huge to ever be contained by a Theatre. Consider a drama that involves a disquieting ending with girl on train and boy on platform. But where the train is real, doors beep, driver speaks, and rails rattle and spark as it pulls away. Junction is immensely successful as a story, and as a work of art, because it takes so much from the 'real world'. And unlike formal theatrical works, it is non-exclusive able to provoke laughter and thoughtfulness in the many passers by. Junction makes London an exciting, touching and inspiring place to be. (UK Review)
