Caroline Lee

Performer

Caroline has worked with various companies including the MTC, Hildegard, Playbox (Raw), and La Mama. Highlights include playing Natasha in Three Sisters at Theatreworks; Dora in A Portrait of Dora by Hélène Cixous; Emily, a recovering heroin addict in Ordinary Misery at La Mama, and Grace Marks in the highly successful one-woman adaptation of alias Grace by Margaret Atwood in Sydney and Melbourne.

Caroline’s own work The Three Interiors of Lola Strong, which premiered at fortyfivedownstairs in Feb 2003; The Long Slow Death of a Porn Star, directed by Anna Tregloan and developed in collaboration with Anna Tregloan, David Franzke and Victoria Huff, and Stories from the Hidden City, a large community-based project directed by Bagryana Popov and performed at the Melbourne Museum. In 2004 Caroline performed a solo work, La Douleur, at the Stork Hotel, an adaptation of the novella by Marguerite Duras. This production was extremely well received and enjoyed an extended season of four weeks.

More recently, Caroline appeared in the Aphids triptych of puppet plays for adults A Quarreling Pair, which was premiered in the Melbourne International Arts Festival in October 2004. In both 2001 and 2002 Caroline received the Green Room Award for Best Actress in Fringe/Independent theatre, for her roles in alias Grace and Ordinary Misery.