Carolina Do - PLAYWRIGHT

Fellowships and Residencies:

2025: Ma-Yi Playground Lab | Episodic Theatre Project Writer Lab - S2

2024: JACK Artist-in-Residence | Fresh Ground Pepper Playgroup | The Hearth Virtual Retreat | Fault Line Theatre - Irons in the Fire
2023: MACDOWELL Fellow
2022-2023 | The Orchard Project Greenhouse Cohort | Soho Rep Writer Director Lab
2021: Piper Theater Playwright-in-Process | JACK Residency
2019: Naked Angels' Issue Project Lab

Commissions (past and ongoing): The Hearth, Project Blank SD (Tragedies of Space Travel)

PLAYS (more updates incoming...)

ExtraO1dinary Aliens! (Exit I-485)

Corneliu is an immigrant from Romania who is in love with Kay, a U.S. Citizen. Linh is Kay's best friend who might have let her student visa lapse?! David has dreams of opening up his restaurant with his cousin Enoc. ExtraO1dinary Aliens! (Exit Route I-485) is a love story centered on immigrants and the ones who love them. How can love defy the dehumanizing machinations of the US Immigration system? What makes someone leave everything they've ever known to journey to a foreign land? What makes someone stay despite the hostile environment? What is the promise of the American dream and can it ever be a reality?

Development History/Recognition:
2024 JACK - JACKLabs Workshop Series | Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround PlayGroup | The Makers Ensemble Short Play Fest

ĂN CHƠI: eat /play/rage

“Work hard. Play Hard.” is the unofficial official motto of the waitresses at ĂN CHƠI. A weekend shift in the weeds can feel like purgatory, especially if bringing pho to entitled Lower East Siders is not your life’s calling. Dakota and Mai haven't spoken in years. On the eve of Lan's 100th death day, three guardian ancestors who've been tasked with maintaining the balance between the ancestral and mortal worlds must battle a big-level baddie bent on world domination. As the veil between both worlds crumbles, will Dakota and Mai find themselves back to one another before it's too late? And will the guardian ancestors ever recover their memories in time to defeat the baddie?

Development History/Recognition:
2024 Fault Line Theatre Irons in the Fire
2023 Playwrights Realm Semi-Finalist | Leah Ryan Finalist and Honorable Mention
2022 NEW OHIO THEATRE: New Plays Downtown—four new plays for right now reading

Love Letters to Our Past and Future Selves
a collection of short works by Garrett D. Kim, Diana Ly, Gaven Trinidad, and Carolina Do
curated by Carolina Do for Piper Theater's Playwrights-in-Progress

Portraits by Prisca Choe

PLAYWRIGHT

with Garrett D. Kim, Diana Ly, and Gaven Trinidad for "Love Letters to Our Past and Future Selves" - photo by Prisca Choe

with Garrett D. Kim, Diana Ly, and Gaven Trinidad for "Love Letters to Our Past and Future Selves" - photo by Prisca Choe