Caroline Parker

Caroline

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.