Carole Real is a playwright, screenwriter and actor living in New York City.

Carole’s plays have been called “droll…enjoyable…smart” (The New York Times), “a delight from start to finish” (StageScene LA) and “the front runner” (The Boston Globe).

New York Productions

New York productions include The Guard Will Escort You to Ruff-Ruff (Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon of One-Act Plays), Don’t Say Another Word (59E59 Theaters) and a workshop production of Why the Beach Boys Are Like Opera at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Beach Boys is published by Smith & Kraus, and the rights are owned by Columbia Pictures. 

The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry and Other Works

Carole’s plays have been enjoyed by audiences around the world. Her one-act, The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry, has had over 100 productions in the US, Canada, England, Australia and Asia, has been performed as a short opera in Boston and translated into Chinese. It was included in Take Ten: New Ten-Minute Plays, edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, and Penguin Academics’ Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft. 

In LA, Doesn’t Anyone Know What a Pancreas Is? received an Ovation Recommended production by EST/LA and We Used to Be Fun was also workshopped there. That play was both a semi-finalist at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and a top ten finalist for the Stanley Drama Award. 

Carole is grateful to have worked with many talented directors and actors, including Tony nominees Geneva Carr and Andy Grotelueschen.

Screenwriting and Acting

A member of the Dramatists Guild and of the WGA, Carole has penned primetime and daytime television for CBS, ABC and Fox, including hour-long dramedies, soap operas and television movies.

She has made film, television and radio appearances and, after taking a break for a few decades, has returned to her acting studies with Terry Schreiber and Peter Jensen. 

Carole is a Yale graduate and a lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre.