
After training at Salford College of Technology, the Desmond Jones School of Mime and Channel 4’s TV for All, Caroline began her professional career in 1983, working in Theatre-in-Education as a performer and workshop facilitator for several companies including Theatre Centre, Neti-Neti, Unicorn Childrens’ Theatre, and Roundabout Theatre.
Caroline has performed in many plays for The Drill Hall, Deafinitely Theatre, Graeae Theatre and In Tandem. She has appeared in productions for the BBC and on Channel 4, including Stuart- A Life Backwards, Thieves Like Us, Murphy’s Law, My Hero and Wild West. Caroline played the character of ‘Sue Lee’ in all five series of Switch on BBC2.
Caroline has also devised several plays, including Brave Faces with Danny Braverman at Theatre Centre and Peeling with Kaite O’Reilly for Graeae. She was commisioned by DASH (Disability Arts in Shropshire) to create her first one-woman show Walking Amongst Sleepers, written with Jamie Beddard. The production toured nationally.
In 2005, the Drill Hall commissioned Caroline to create another one-woman show, Signs of a Diva, directed by Jenny Sealey and written by Nona Shepphard. The production toured nationally to sell out houses.
Caroline has a cabaret act in which she signs songs to well known tracks such as Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. In addition to this she has started breaking into the Stand up Comedy circuit.
From this cabaret act Liberty Festival at Trafalgar Square commissioned Caroline to come up with an outlandish sign song extravaganza influences by popular film ‘Priscilla – Queen of the Dessert’ called ‘The Alexandras’.
Caroline is fluent in English, British Sign Language and Signed song.