Chris Carcione

Biography

Chris Carcione is a multi-disciplinary freelance theater artist, educator and arts administrator. His is interested in making unique audience experiences through participatory, environmental, site-specific theatrical events and theater that combines live performance and digital technology. Throughout his career, he has worked as a performer, director, projection designer, puppet artist and arts marketing professional. He has worked as an artist or administrator at La MaMa ETC, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Second Stage Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Huntington Theatre Company and CO/LAB Theater Group, among others.

Favorite past projects include Shadows, an ensemble-devised immersive theatrical event that loosely adapted Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None into a fully-participatory performance in which every audience member had a unique experience; Confidentially Yours, J. Edgar, a solo performance about former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s controversial policies to oust dissidents from federal agencies; In Repayment, an ensemble performance investigating the U.S. student loan debt crisis; Not In the Cards, a noir-style shadow puppet show using only an overhead projector; and You Can See Nothing From Here, a contemplation of humanity’s place in the universe using digital imagery and arts and crafts objects created with frequent collaborator Vincent Mraz. As a projection designer and live feed operator, Chris has worked on projects such as Monkey: A Kung Fu Parable with White Snake Productions, Dan Hurlin’s Demolishing Every with Amazing Speed and Bismarck and numerous projects with Tom Lee including Sounding the Resonant Path, Place(no)place, and most notably Shank’s Mare and Akutagawa, developed with and featuring Koryu Nishikawa V, both of which have toured in puppetry festivals in the U.S. and internationally.

Chris is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Towson University. He earned a BS in Communication from Boston University and an MFA in Theater from Sarah Lawrence College.