Carolina Valdés
Birthplace:
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Carolina is a performer, writer and theatre maker. She trained at the Col.legi de Teatre in Barcelona and at the École Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she met Joseph Alford. She became Co-Artistic Director of ‘theatre O’ in 1999. She has co-created and performed in all of the company’s shows. She also has a BA Hons degree in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. Aside from theatre O, she has worked extensively as an actor and Movement Director and done work in theatre, opera, film and television. Her longstanding collaborations include her work with Phyllida Lloyd in the Shakespeare Trilogy project, film maker Daria Martin, writer and theatre maker Jonathan Young, and composer Melanie Wilson. Carolina has also an ongoing involvement in education and has taught throughout the years at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and Guildford Drama School amongst others. Alongside this, she has performed for the past eight years with company ATT using drama to explore behaviour in the work place and for around 10 years she translated comic books and graphic novels from English and French into Spanish.