Jade King Carroll
Director
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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.
News
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Jade King Carroll Appointed as Producing Artistic Director of Chautauqua Theater Company
Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of the celebrated director Jade King Carroll as Producing Artistic Director of its resident Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) following an extensive national search. In this role, Carroll will program and oversee the company’s robust annual summer season of professional productions, a growing new work development program, and a renowned conservatory that supports early-career artists.
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‘Amerikin’: A Play That Mines Identity, Race, Empathy And The Lies We Tell Ourselves
“It confronts the destructive impact of hatred in our society, exploring how it can drive individuals to madness,” adds Carroll. “It is an important human story that resonates with relevance, discomfort, humor, and vibrancy. The characters, the dialogue and ensemble work that this allows is pretty exceptional as well.”
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Cicely Tyson: Grace, Poise, Mischief, and Always Truth
In Memoriam by Jade King Carroll
“Her purpose was powerful: It resonated in everything she did, and her art will continue to carry us forward. She brought each of her characters to life truthfully and completely. She was mesmerizing to watch onstage. She could guide an audience’s every breath and open hearts and minds with her bravery of soul and commitment to the truth. She was luminous. She was Cicely Tyson, and there will never be another.”
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C.A. Johnson's Tell Me You're Dying Sets 2025 World Premiere
New York's Chautauqua Theater Company, the resident theatre company of Chautauqua Institution, will present the world premiere of C.A. Johnson's Tell Me You’re Dying next year.
CTC Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll will direct the CTC-commissioned work in August 2025 during the final two weeks of the nine-week Summer Assembly. Casting and additional creative team members will be announced at a later date.
Johnson's play is described as "a post-apocalyptic lesbian love story." The new work follows Millicent and her chosen family who are facing illness, mortality, and the shared urgency of dwindling time. goes here