Circus Fire, by Jacques Lamarre
- *Recipient of the CT Critics Circle Best Ensemble Award
“Caroline Kinsolving is truly moving.”
– Tom Holehan, Connecticut Critics Circle
“Kinsolving has the audience in tears as the nurse.”
– Kiersten Bjork, Connecticut Critics Circle
“Heartfelt portrayal…poignant…versatile…
A nurse who is ordered to lie to a recovering patient about her daughter’s demise.”
– Laura B. Hayden, Patch
Gaileo’s Daughter by Jessica Dickey
- Caroline starred in Jessica Dickey’s play Galileo’s Daughter, a co-production with WAM at Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires and Central Square Theatre in Cambridge.
- Received a Broadway World Best Actor Award for her performance in Galileo’s Daughter.
“Kinsolving brings abundant energy”
– The Boston Globe
“Caroline Kinsolving is thoroughly engaging…excellent.”
– On Boston Stages
“Kinsolving is a steady presence.”
– Metrmag
“Kinsolving brings energy and resolve.”
– Theatre Mirror
“Caroline Kinsolving, who plays The Writer, is given the unenviable task. Nevertheless, it is clear even here that she is a compelling actress. She moves about the stage with the gracious fluidity of a dancer. She deftly navigates the range of emotions, from anxiety and grief, to awe. Her performance makes me eager to see her in another role.”
– Arts Fuse Magazine
“Caroline Kinsolving brings a dynamic energy to the writer that is refreshing and engaging. She manages to make the sordid details and events of researching the relatively obscure, possibly mundane, fun and engaging…[a] commendable performance.”
– Broadway World
“This is an enormously challenging piece: Kinsolving does a wonderful job of guiding us directly into the action from the opening announcement of the play to the final narration. The lines are often written in verse form though they are contemporary prose, even in the seventeenth century. With her ponytail and backpack, tights and running shoes, the actress leads us into each building she visits, painting a word picture of her surroundings. We watch her character overcome the emotional turmoil she suffers, as she .. accomplished all that she set out to do, despite her circumstances.”
– Berkshires on Stage
Stable (short film)
- Our short film, Stable, just earned its first laurels!
This short is based on conversations we’ve had with performing artists since the pandemic. Made with a $0 budget and a cast/crew of 1 other, we hope it makes others feel less alone and share it with compassion.
If you are able to share it with friends, on social media, or like/comment on the YouTube page, your support will (seriously) be deeply valued and will help our little short grow some wings!
“I think it’s beautiful. So very moving. And I really enjoy the movement of the scenes, very propulsive and concurrently “still”. I love the kickoff being the don lemon prime and then ending with the Ada limon, so wisely and with gratitude brings the whole thing full circle with what a woman is and can do regardless of age and prime. Really lovely.”
– Lisa Taddeo Best-selling author and producer of Three Women
“I was thoroughly captivated. Considering it was essentially an 11+ minute soliloquy says quite a bit about the filmmaking. …The performance amplified by the camera work told the story…the filmmaking kept me on the ride.”
– Ken Topolsky Award-winning film producer and television director (The Wonder Years, Party of Five, Yellowstone)
“I think it’s brilliant. I cried. At times it’s like a dream sequence. I love the black and white, the slowness of it, the casualness of the conversation with the British therapist, the momentary humor and close-up of your dog, the beauty of the barn and landscape, your beauty, the longing, being cattle and one day wondering what was all for–and yet so ready to do everything with still so much life ahead. Reflecting back on choices while knowing that was the only path you ever could have taken because it is. The dog trailing you, that connection, the horse’s heart, the violin. How you disappear at the end like the cycle of time. But also the metaphor of the beating heart that will win— maybe not in the way society tells girls they should win, but in the way of living. It’s very special.”
– Jasmine Lobe Columnist for The Observer
“I found your film extremely moving … in some ways, the rougher version of the work made its contents and subject more vivid.”
– Nicholas Meyer Award-winning writer, director, and producer (Star Trek, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Collateral Damage)
“Really good! I love the intercutting of the black-and-white footage, the whole horse metaphor (such a great location!), and the raw honesty of the piece. EXTREMELY impressive on the resources you cited.”
– Keith Boynton Filmmaker, director, and writer
“Your performance was genuinely captivating, and your talent shines through in every scene. There’s no surprise here…This is a great achievement – especially since you had such a minimal crew! You should be really proud of this.”
– Aaron Tao Award-winning film maker
“I thoroughly enjoyed watching this and thought it was beautifully produced and shot—and your acting totally held the screen throughout without being overly dramatic or obvious in any way. Quite a feat! Plus the beautiful music added a lot, in just the right places.”
– Nancy Hardin Producer (Frida)
“First of all – she is STUNNING onscreen. The way they’ve shot this plays up her beauty and vulnerability so much. And I know how raw and true to her own experience this is, which also makes me love it even more.
Second, Olivia is a dick.
Third, I’m amazed with what they did with just your resources and I’m dying to know how they did it. It looks so good…”
– Anjali Bhimani Best-selling author, award-winning TV and Broadway actress, and video game star
“I am so moved by your work and already emotionally invested. This felt like the introduction of a film or series and I am sitting here ready for more.”
– Megan Bauer Dancer and animal rights activist
“Wow. The visual storytelling is absolutely stunning. A quiet stillness throughout and I was left with a rumbling resilience at the end.”
– Evelyn Spahr Actress and film maker
“I watched on my TV- I figured it deserved a big screen. I loved the emotional vulnerability, the overall texture of the film- it really felt like a European film- of the type that one enjoys while being pushed to think more deeply.”
– Tim Medland Environmentalist and art expert
Rescue Me, by Peter Story and Terra Sissom
“Caroline Kinsolving brings an impressive depth to her character.“
–Broadway World
“The chemistry between Kinsolving and Story was exceptional…Their performances were not just outstanding, but also incredibly believable…All three actors in this show were phenomenal, delivering an entertaining spectacle that captivated the audience from start to finish.”
– Sacramento 365
“B Street Theater at The Sofia as a new show guaranteed to make you laugh!”
– CBS News
“Two lone plane crash survivors find themselves battling the elements and each other as they try to navigate the open ocean. With some hope, some ingenuity and maybe a little divine intervention…they might just make it out of this disaster alive.”
– FOX 40
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
“Caroline Kinsolving gave us one of the best Lady Macbeth performance I have ever seen.”
– Wayne A. Wilson
“the real deal.”
– Nicholas Meyer
“The dazzling and brilliant Caroline Kinsolving brought an award-worthy performance of Lady M…pure presence, and such a nuanced and thoughtful and convincing portrayal of a complex, conflicted character.”
– Samuel Thomas
“One of the most beautiful interpretations ever”
– A.M. Soto
“I can say unequivocally that Caroline Kinsolving’s mad scene was the best I’ve ever seen it done. Better…than Ruth Negga’s recent turn on Broadway, better than Frances’ recent turn on screen. Her choices, from the one armed entrance until the mournful exit, were perfect and compelling. The lightning transitions between the intentions were fully supported and impeccably traveled.”
– D. Schlossman
“One of the most phenomenal productions I’ve ever seen, period…I was still weeping this morning thinking about Caroline Kinsolving’s performance of the sleepwalking scene…Matt and Caroline brought so much humanity to their characters and try could feel their love for each other and the trauma they’d endured – it sucked the audience into the story and made them really care about what happened to these people. Fabulous show all around.”
– Emily Redman Hall
“Caroline killed it as Lady M, really beautiful work.”
– Brendon Garrett
Cry It Out, by Molly Smith Metzler
“Kinsolving jolts the audience fully into being just when they think they’ve learned everything there is to learn. Kinsolving, who sweeps onto the stage like every Hollywood she-villain ever, brings delicious humor and complexity to the role.”
– Newhaven Arts
“A tour de force performance….”
– Pioneer Valley Radio
“Ms. Kinsolving is perfectly stoic and brilliantly frosty.”
– Broadway World
“A steely billion…Kinsolving is dynamic.”
– CT Insider
“Affecting and well-formulated performance… Convincing and portrays her character with whatever is required”
– Talkin Broadway
“Ms. Kinsolving…gave a heartfelt performance in her Hartford Stage debut…The actress had the great aim required by her role.”
– Patch
“Caroline Kinsolving’s strong, confident performance layered with plenty of fire and fury until the ball drops and the character reveals an anguished back story designed to reduce you to tears.”
– From The Desk of Jim R, Take 2
“Caroline Kinsolving has the difficult task of making her character both bitchy and sympathetic. She does so with sophistication and aplomb and demonstrates you can’t always judge a book by its cover.”
– Stu on Broadway
“Perfectly crafted by Caroline Kinsolving.”
– Berkshire Eagle
Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky, by Dianne Nora
“Monica stars Caroline Kinsolving as the complex, archetype-defying quasi-Monica…Valiant and vulnerable.”
– Broadway World
“Kinsolving is a commanding performer and plays with Lewinsky’s strength, dignity, and vulnerability — all traits of the real-life person.”
– The Broadway Blog
“Caroline Kinsolving as the titular Monica has an admirable performance, portraying her character with dignity and intelligence.”
– Plays To See
“Monica, played with voluptuous tartness by the rich-voiced Caroline Kinsolving, was definitely the focus of the play and the emotions of all the other characters…charismatic.”
– San Diego Union Tribune
“Smart, gifted, and charming”
– The UK Spectator
Tartuffe, by Moliere
“Caroline Kinsolving is wonderful as Orgon’s elegant, wise young wife Elmire, who sets up the scheme that eventually unmasks Tartuffe. She’s very funny, especially in the scene where she permits Tartuffe to seduce her to reveal his true nature to her husband, who is hiding under a table… It takes a talented troupe of actors like those at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey to drive the message home in an entertaining way.”
“The gorgeous production is eye candy, the actors deftly declaim their lines in rhymed hexameter as if it’s their natural way of speaking, and dramatic timing is so precise—so difficult to achieve in comedy—that “Tartuffe” is an uproarious romp. The sold-out crowd gave the 11 actors a well-deserved standing ovation.”
“Most auspicious among them are the ladies: Caroline Kinsolving, as his wife, Elmire, the sophisticated epitomé of restraint and judiciousness and the dramatic fulcrum of Tartuffe’s downfall.”
“About those women: Caroline Kinsolving as Orgon’s young wife Elmire, … as accomplished comedic actors as they are elegant models for designer Nikki Delhomme’s gorgeous costumes. Subtle traces of up-to-date feminism bring the play’s serious issues home without sacrificing any of Molière’s wit (or his and Wilbur’s nifty rhyme-scheme).”
“The company couldn’t be better. They are in full command of Moliere’s fast-paced, dialogue with its cleverly rhymed couplets. The lively, colorful characters in the show are wonderfully portrayed.”
“The play’s centerpiece, a classic of comic theater rendered skillfully by Harris, Kinsolving and Toon. Kinsolving finds lots of…vibrant, layered comedy.”
“The entire cast is strong, especially Toon and Kinsolving.”
“Fine performance by Caroline Kinsolving. The famous seduction scene is as hilarious as it meant to be.”
“The funniest scene involves Elmire… Kinsolving carries the scene, alternating her fake passion toward Tartuffe to her coded hints to her husband.”
“Giving memorable performances are Caroline Kinsolving as wife Elmire…”
“The highlight of the play is a tricky scene in which wife Elmire insists that Orgon hide under a dining room…and well, it is hilarious. The scene, staged perfectly, … is an uproarious moment that reminds you of the old Marx brothers movies.”
“Couldn’t be better…in full command of Moliere’s fast-paced, dialogue with its cleverly rhymed couplets. … Lively, colorful, and wonderfully portrayed.”
Peer Gynt, by Ibsen
“Movingly portrayed by Caroline Kinsolving…generated much electricity here…Masur and the BSO infused the dance with quasi-Arabic sensuosity and subtle desire, while Caroline Kinsolving, as Anitra, danced seductively but increasingly added a subtle note of comedy.”
— Geoffrey Wieting, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Venus in Fur, by David Ives
- This production of “Venus in Fur” was nominated for Three Critics Circle Awards, including best actress, selected for best director, drama, and actress by the SDGLN, and was listed as one of the best productions in 2013 by Broadway World.
“Kinsolving gives a tour de force performance as Vanda/Wanda. She’s brassy, ballsy and amusingly awkward as the modern-day actress, but refined and intriguing as the 19th century novel heroine. And she’s got some mad, gravity-defying pole-dance skills as the taunting Venus.”
– UT San Diego
“…Caroline Kinsolving turns in tours de force characterizations, providing some of the year’s top acting. With admirable chemistry, they are by turns reserved, enticing, erotic, athletic and—utterly without respite—as fascinating and watchable as Ives’ concept…Although both Meek and Kinsolving enjoy careers in film and television, each seems devoted to stage work as well…His perfect foil, the utterly fearless and gorgeous Kinsolving makes her Rep debut as Vanda.”
– SD Uptown News
“Caroline Kinsolving has been terrific before, her performance as Jennie Malone in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two having won her a Memorable Lead Performance Scenie, but her previous work pales in comparison to her out-and-out brilliance as Vanda, a role which won its originator Nina Aranda the Tony and could well score Kinsolving similar honors when San Diego award season rolls around. Essentially playing two very different roles in a single play, Kinsolving’s transformation from 2013 Vanda to her 1870 namesake (and back and forth again and again) is absolutely stunning. I can only imagine how many actresses Kinsolving beat out for the role(s) of Vanda. Her revelatory work makes it no wonder she got the part(s).”
– Steven Stanley
“The San Diego Rep may have mirrored Thomas’s search for a young woman able to play dumb as mud, then leap tall buildings at a single bound. She must flip styles, from extreme contemporary to classical and back: the one requiring the elasticity of a gymnast, the other grave, from the neck up formality, having only words to vent her passions. And the gymnast? She must shimmy up a metal pole, like a balletic Marine, and do a routine worthy of Cirque du Soleil. Enter Caroline Kinsolving. Oh my WORD! Who? Where’s she been?
From her first entrance, Kinsolving owns the stage. She’s smart, freely sexy, and, even more to the point, relentlessly spontaneous. She flits from empyrean to bumpkin and to comedian (as when she says, “You don’t have to tell me about sadomasochism. I’m in the theater”). Kinsolving steals the show…”
– San Diego Reader
“Caroline Kinsolving delivers an astounding performance—she instantly transforms from the gutter mouthed actress to the classy Victorian time after time, stunning the audience with her stage presence and command. She is sexy, seductive, trashy, manipulative and engrossing. It’s a performance for the ages.”
– Stage Happenings
“We do know though, that Caroline Kinsolving is an enchanting and alluring actress who can transform herself from a savvy street fighter into the dignified Vanda von Danayev tempting her prey into her den on the turn of a dime. She can memorize an entire script that she supposedly just got her hands on and glanced at on the subway ride to the audition. Sex exudes from her every pore, look and stance. Her performance is charming, effortless and seducing.”
– Examiner
“But Venus, ruler of grace, charm and beauty (not to mention love and money), owns this play, despite Vanda’s contention that it’s really the slave that commands. Fortunately, Meek gets out of the way and Kinsolving is not shy about taking over. She is a pleasure to watch – both beautiful and a fine actress who can switch centuries in a trice, with accents, vocabulary and postures to match.”
– SDGLN
