Caroline has worked with various companies including the Malthouse, STC, MTC, Back to Back Theatre, Finucane and Smith, Hildegard, Playbox (Raw) and La Mama. Highlights include playing Deborah in A Kind of Alaska for the STC, Natasha in Three Sisters at Theatreworks, Dora in A Portrait of Dora by Helene Cixous, Emily, a recovering heroin addict in Ordinary Misery at La Mama, and Grace Marks in the highly successful one-woman adaptation of alias Graceby Margaret Atwood, which was performed in Sydney, Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur.
Caroline has also participated in a number of successful projects developing innovative text and design orientated performance, for example, Black at the Malthouse, a performance installation by Anna Tregloan about the Black Dahlia murder in Hollywood in the 1940’s; her own work the three interiors of lola strong, which premiered at fortyfivedownstairs in Feb 2003; The Long Slow Death of a Porn Star, directed by Anna Tregloan and developed in collaboration with Anna Tregloan, David Franzke and Victoria Huff; and Stories from the Hidden City, a large community based project directed by Bagryana Popov and performed at the Melbourne Museum. All of these projects involved collaborative relationships between directors, writers and performers, and substantial amounts of textual analysis and revision, a process which Caroline finds incredibly productive and rewarding.
Most recently Caroline has appeared as the Romance Librarian and the Professional Letter Writer in Finucane and Smith’s Carnival of Mysteries, which had a sell-out season in the 2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival; played the lead role of Deborah in A Kind of Alaska directed by Cate Blanchett at the STC; appeared in a new Australian gothic work The Flood, at La Mama; toured Australia in a very successful remount of Cosi by Louis Nowra, with HIT Productions; performed seasons of Care Instructions at the Malthouse and in Denmark; and toured the puppet show for adults A Quarreling Pair to New York. A Quarreling Pair premiered in the Melbourne International Arts Festival in October 2004, this was followed by another sold-out season in the Tower Theatre at the Malthouse.
Caroline’s film and television appearances include a main cast role in Bogan Pride, and roles in Satisfaction, Stingers, MDA, Halifax fp, Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Holidays on the River Yarra, and Dogs in Space, as well as a number of smaller film projects with independent producers including a cameo appearance in the very funny short film When The Wind Changes, written by Richard Davies and directed by Alethea Jones.
Caroline has also completed the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT. Her novel, Stripped was serialised from 2008-2010 in the renowned literary journal Meanjin, and will be being published as a whole in 2011. She has also had a number of short stories published, received first prize for a short story in the 2006 Fellowship of Australian Writers writing competition, and in 2005 won the Marion Eldridge Award for emerging woman writers.
In 2001 and 2002 she received the Green Room Award for Best Actress in Fringe/Independent theatre for her roles in alias Grace and Ordinary Misery, and in 2005 won a Green Room Award for Best Actress in Mainstream Theatre for alias Grace.
Caroline also regularly narrates talking books, and is well-known amongst listeners. Recent titles Caroline has narrated include Almost French by Sarah Turnbull, Fall Girl and Addition by Toni Jordan, Violent Exposure by Katherine Howell, The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, and Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman.