Caroline Neisha Taylor

About me:

Writer, performer, editor, web 2.0 aficionado, arts administrator, teacher, dabbler in photography and videography...and everything interesting in between (within reason)!

As an actress, Caroline's work spans a variety of styles and genres, from classic Greek tragedies, to contemporary tragi-comedies, Calypso and Rapso musicals, and her multi-media one-woman show, Pack Light.

As a singer, she performs and trains both with celebrated Trinidadian singer and songwriter, Ella Andall, and with the internationally acclaimed Marionettes Chorale, but is perhaps most at home singing jazz with a small live band...! She is also a staff writer at Caribbean Beat and editor of Discover Trinidad & Tobago magazine, as well as their respective blogs, and has written both for television and for stage. She also works in online marketing & publicity.

On this page, you can browse photos, video and audio (see ReverbNation and iLike widgets above), writing samples and resume (below), which chart some of the journey. Thanks for stopping by. Love and blessings to everyone always.

PERFORMANCES
• Weekend Comedy (aka Foursome in Toco), (RS & RR Productions, Trinidad & Tobago, 2009)
• Sex, Lies & Money (RS & RR Productions, Trinidad & Tobago, 2009)
• The 3canal show: SHINE! (cut + clear productions, Queen's Hall, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2008)
• Carnival Messiah (Harewood House, Leeds, UK, 2007)
• Pack Light (NY International Fringe Festival, New York, NY, USA, 2006)
• The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club (Lordstreet Theatre, Queen's Hall, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2006)
• Prostitutes (Williamstheatre Lab, CenterStage, MA, USA, 2005)
• The Olympians: Birth of Athena (Ohio Theatre, New York, NY, USA, 2005)
• The Date (Looking Glass Forum, New York, NY, USA, 2004)
• Dido & Aeneas (Key Music Academy, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2004)
• The Bacchae (Williamstheatre MainStage, MA, USA, 2004)
• Dis, Dat & the Other (Williamstheatre DownStage, MA, USA, 2004)
• The Seagull (Williamstheatre MainStage, MA, USA, 2003)
• Fragments of Creole Memory (Trinity/La MaMa, New York, NY, USA, 2002)
• The Medea (Williamstheatre MainStage, MA, USA, 2002)
• Canboulay: the Williams College Steel Orchestra (MA, USA, 2000-2002)
• The Marionettes Chorale (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 1995-present)
• Caribbean School of Dance (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 1986-1997)

PUBLISHED WRITING
• "Acting Has Always Been Like Breathing": Trinidad-born actress, Lorraine Toussaint.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Love after Love: Guyana's Painting the Spectrum film festival, Caribbean Beat Magazine
• “I Have Walked Long Hard Roads to Get There”: Jamaican poet, Staceyann Chin.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Focus pon me: Barbadian singer/songwriter Shontelle Layne.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• High Fashion from Haiti: designer Jean-Ralph Thurin.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• The Books Are Back: the Antigua Literary Festival.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Earth Music: Ella Andall.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Songs of Freedom: Carnival Messiah, Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Sun, Sea, and...Whales: CARIBwhale.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Cherrie Blossoms: Michael Cherrie, Trinidad’s “Black Brando”.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Jazzing up Jamaica: the Ocho Rios Jazz Festival,.. Caribbean Beat Magazine
• It’s Commitment That Counts: Guyana Turtle Conservation.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Passing of a King of Carnival: Carlos Lezama.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Remembering: Bicentenary of the Slave Trade’s Abolition.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Ready for Action: Trinidad’s Arts-in-Action.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Bird of Night takes flight, Caribbean Review of Books
• Last Word: Holy Macaroni.., Caribbean Beat Magazine
• Last Word: It’s a Brown World, Caribbean Beat Magazine
• “Imagining a Whole”: the Formation & Performance of Hybrid Postcolonial Identities in Trinidad, Williams College
• The Marionettes Chorale’s Mosaic II, The Trinidad Express
• Poem: “Dozing”, The Williams Literary Review
• Iere, Man, The Williams Record
• Trinidad & Tobago 101, The Williams Record
• Ghostworld, The Williams Record
• Sankofa, Spring 2001, The Williams Record
• Canboulay: Williams Steel Orchestra, The Williams Record
• Students of Caribbean Ancestry (SoCA) Week 2001, The Williams Record
• Carnival Nostalgia, The Williams Record
• Chocolat, The Williams Record
• Vivaldi & Tiepolo’s Venice, The Williams Record....

EDUCATION
• Williams College (BA, With Highest Honors), MA, USA
• Trinity/La Ma Ma Performing Arts Program, New York, NY, USA (2002)
• InterStudy/Goldsmiths College, University of London, England, UK (2003)
• Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.., New York, NY, USA (2003)
• St. Joseph's Convent.., Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago