Jade King Carroll

 

 

Director

Jade King Carroll

Photo by Mical Hutson

 

Jade King Carroll is a freelance theatrical director and the Producing Artistic Director of Chautauqua Theater Company.

SELECTED NEW YORK: Amerikin, New Golden Age (Primary Stages); The Light and The Dark (Chautauqua Theater Company/Primary Stages); Proof of Love (Audible/New York Theatre Workshop); Autumn’s Harvest (Lincoln Center Institute); Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth (The Playwright’s Realm); Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money (Atlantic Theater Company); Alondra Was Here (Wild Project).

SELECTED REGIONAL: Intimate Apparel, The Piano Lesson (McCarter Theatre Center); Detroit ‘67 (Hartford Stage/McCarter Theatre Center); The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage); Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years (Hartford Stage/Long Wharf Theatre); Trouble in Mind (PlayMakers Repertory Company, Two River Theater Company); The Revolutionists, Sunset Baby (City Theatre Company); Perseverance, Native Gardens, Skeleton Crew, The Whipping Man, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Bad Dates (Portland Stage); Labor Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Syracuse Stage); Seven Deadly Sins (Drama League Award, Miami New Drama); Still Life (Ancram Opera House); King Hedley II (Portland Playhouse); How I Learned What I Learned (Portland Playhouse/La Petite Theatre); A Jumping Off Point (Round House Theater); Stew (Ebony Rep Theater); Skeleton Crew (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley/Marin Theatre Company); Seven Guitars, The Persians, Splittin’ the Raft (People’s Light & Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Perseverance Theater); Cardboard Piano, A Raisin in the Sun (The Juilliard School); A Member of the Wedding (Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival); Laughing Wild (Dorset Theater Festival); New Age (Milwaukee Rep); The Tempest, Pride and Prejudice (Chautauqua Theater Company).

SELECTED ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gin Game (Broadway); The Children’s Monologues (Carnegie Hall).

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Paul Green Award from the National Theatre Conference and The Estate of August Wilson, TCG New Generations Future Leader, New York Theatre Workshop, Van Lier, Second Stage Theatre, Women’s Project, McCarter Theatre, SUNY 40 under 40, Gates Millennium Scholar.

Since becoming Producing Artistic Director of Chautauqua Theater Company in 2023, Jade has raised 11.5 million dollars to build a new state-of-the-art theater center on the grounds, complete with a rehearsal room, black box space, and prop shop. CTC is proud to have broken ground on this beautiful new space in September of 2024. Jade has commissioned playwrights C.A. Johnson, Sharyn Rothstein, Kate Hamill, and Kwame Alexander. She also pioneered a Co-Production program, through which CTC and Primary Stages collaborated on the world premiere of The Light and The Dark

Jade has taught, guest lectured, and directed at Juilliard, Princeton, New York University, Rutgers, Penn State, WVU, SUNY, Adelphi, Kean University, NYCDA, Point Park University, and Iowa University.

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