Biography:
Caroline Banks is an award-winning actor, singer, voiceover artist, and producer based in Manhattan. She is a proud member of the resident acting company The Bats at The Flea Theater. Off-Broadway: The Fall (Fringe Encores Series), Paradiso: Chapter One (dir. Michael Counts), The Path of Beatrice (dir. Counts) and The Cooping Theory (Poseidon Theatre Company). Regional: Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Big Bend in the Red Dirt Desert (Williamstown), The Good Person of Setzuan (McCarter Theatre Center), and Pippin (McCarter). New York (selected): the New York Times critically acclaimed The Death of a Black Man (Theater for the New City). TV: Mysteries at the Museum (Travel Channel) and The Perfect Murder (Investigation Discovery). Princeton University graduate (two Outstanding Work in Theatre Awards). www.carolinebanksactor.com
Bio (extended):
Caroline Banks is an award-winning actor, singer, voiceover artist, and producer based in Manhattan and originally from Westchester, New York. She has acted Off-Broadway and on television. She is a proud member of the resident acting company The Bats at The Flea Theater.
Caroline starred as Alva Vanderbilt in Mysteries at the Museum on the Travel Channel and co-starred as Joyce on the season finale of The Perfect Murder on the Investigation Discovery channel. Caroline made her Off-Broadway Debut at the Soho Playhouse October 2016 in the Fringe Encores Series' Production of The Fall. Other Off-Broadway: Paradiso: Chapter One (dir. Michael Counts), The Path of Beatrice (dir. Counts), and The Cooping Theory (PTC). Caroline won "Best Leading Actor in a Musical" at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2016 for her performance as Ava/Sister Strike in Mescaline the Musical. She was also seen in The New York Times critically acclaimed production of The Death of a Black Man at Theater for the New City in 2016. She has performed regionally with Williamstown Theatre Festival and at the McCarter Theatre Center. She has been fortunate enough to work with such directors as Tony-winner John Rando, Marlo Hunter, the late Tim Vasen, Mark Nelson, Suzanne Agins, and Tracey Bersley.
She is a student of Tony-nominated actress Jessica Hecht and studied on-camera acting with Bob Krakower at One on One. She has studied voice with Andrea Green (Joan Lader Group). She has also studied Improv at the Upright Citizen's Brigade, voiceover with Marla Kirbin, and acting at the StudioNY Summer Conservatory (Thiago Felix (Lucid Body), Doug Chapman (Voice), Felix Ivanov (Movement), Jayd McCarty (Scene Study), Ilse Pfeifer (Fitzmaurice), Lucas Caleb Rooney (Clown)), William Esper and Stella Adler Acting Studios in New York. She is an Equity Membership Candidate and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. She is signed with Bob Blume at Step Forward Entertainment.
She graduated from Princeton University as a Theatre Minor. At Princeton, she performed in over a dozen plays and musicals, and was twice the recipient of the Outstanding Work in Theatre Award by the Princeton Theatre Program.
Caroline Banks is an award-winning actor, singer, voiceover artist, and producer based in Manhattan. She is a proud member of the resident acting company The Bats at The Flea Theater. Off-Broadway: The Fall (Fringe Encores Series), Paradiso: Chapter One (dir. Michael Counts), The Path of Beatrice (dir. Counts) and The Cooping Theory (Poseidon Theatre Company). Regional: Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Big Bend in the Red Dirt Desert (Williamstown), The Good Person of Setzuan (McCarter Theatre Center), and Pippin (McCarter). New York (selected): the New York Times critically acclaimed The Death of a Black Man (Theater for the New City). TV: Mysteries at the Museum (Travel Channel) and The Perfect Murder (Investigation Discovery). Princeton University graduate (two Outstanding Work in Theatre Awards). www.carolinebanksactor.com
Bio (extended):
Caroline Banks is an award-winning actor, singer, voiceover artist, and producer based in Manhattan and originally from Westchester, New York. She has acted Off-Broadway and on television. She is a proud member of the resident acting company The Bats at The Flea Theater.
Caroline starred as Alva Vanderbilt in Mysteries at the Museum on the Travel Channel and co-starred as Joyce on the season finale of The Perfect Murder on the Investigation Discovery channel. Caroline made her Off-Broadway Debut at the Soho Playhouse October 2016 in the Fringe Encores Series' Production of The Fall. Other Off-Broadway: Paradiso: Chapter One (dir. Michael Counts), The Path of Beatrice (dir. Counts), and The Cooping Theory (PTC). Caroline won "Best Leading Actor in a Musical" at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2016 for her performance as Ava/Sister Strike in Mescaline the Musical. She was also seen in The New York Times critically acclaimed production of The Death of a Black Man at Theater for the New City in 2016. She has performed regionally with Williamstown Theatre Festival and at the McCarter Theatre Center. She has been fortunate enough to work with such directors as Tony-winner John Rando, Marlo Hunter, the late Tim Vasen, Mark Nelson, Suzanne Agins, and Tracey Bersley.
She is a student of Tony-nominated actress Jessica Hecht and studied on-camera acting with Bob Krakower at One on One. She has studied voice with Andrea Green (Joan Lader Group). She has also studied Improv at the Upright Citizen's Brigade, voiceover with Marla Kirbin, and acting at the StudioNY Summer Conservatory (Thiago Felix (Lucid Body), Doug Chapman (Voice), Felix Ivanov (Movement), Jayd McCarty (Scene Study), Ilse Pfeifer (Fitzmaurice), Lucas Caleb Rooney (Clown)), William Esper and Stella Adler Acting Studios in New York. She is an Equity Membership Candidate and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. She is signed with Bob Blume at Step Forward Entertainment.
She graduated from Princeton University as a Theatre Minor. At Princeton, she performed in over a dozen plays and musicals, and was twice the recipient of the Outstanding Work in Theatre Award by the Princeton Theatre Program.