CAROLYN CORBETT                   

Carolyn Corbett is a writer and visual artist.

She works in the mediums of poetry, printmaking, photography and experimental film.

Corbett graduated from New York University in 1996 with an MFA in Acting and spent the next five years in New York City – creating avant-garde Theatre and Performance Art. 

From 1999-2001, she worked as a Teaching Artist for New York City’s Metropolitan Opera Guild, guiding the remarkable kids of New York City’s economically-challenged public schools – as they conceived, wrote, directed, designed, and performed in – their own original operas. 

In 2002, Corbett moved to Kingston, NY where she conceived and implemented a Poetry and Creative Writing Program for individuals recovering from multiple disabilities acquired from complex injuries, mainly traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries.

In 2007, Corbett’s writing program was featured on the front page of The Woodstock Times. From 2006-2008, Corbett shot, directed and produced The Edge of Things, a documentary feature about an astonishing woman named Lucille. Lucille was one of the poets in the writing program.

In 2009, The Edge of Things premiered at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas. The film was also an Official Selection at the Tacoma Film Festival in Washington.

During this time, Corbett was also teaching in the Theatre Department at SUNY, New Paltz. Her courses at SUNY integrated physical and vocal training for the actor, as well as the development of original, site-specific performance works. 

In 2009, Corbett moved to Los Angeles to study Graduate Film and Television at USC. Corbett spent most of her time at USC making short experimental films and practicing her editing skills. She also co-edited a short documentary about an inspiring Iraqi Refugee family titled Where We Live and directed, edited and produced two black & white documentaries about her family: Nouvelle Vie and Enthusios.

After USC, Corbett started a boutique production company in San Diego, cutting her teeth on a wide range of commercial-based video content. 

From 2016-2017 she co-edited and associate-produced a feature documentary titled I’ll Push You. I’ll Push You premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

Corbett is currently working on a series of monoprints and just finished a surreal thriller feature titled TALISKER. Corbett wrote Talisker for her classmate at NYU, Michael C. Hall.

A solo exhibition of her monoprints made from ‘upcycled’ materials is on view in Sonoma, California.

EDUCATION:

MASTER OF FINE ARTS DEGREES (NYU, USC) Corbett has two MFA degrees: one from New York University in Acting (1993-1996), and another MFA from The University of Southern California in Film and Television Production.