CAROLINE DOOLEY
With an honours degree in Performing Arts, Caroline has been involved in many aspects of the performing world. She has toured with The Pied Piper Theatre-in-Education Company and taken History Alive workshops into schools across the south-east with Theatre Exchange. She has been involved with projects for children with special needs and worked as an actor/facilitator with ACTivate – an integrated theatre company for adults with learning disabilities and as an animatuer of multi-sensory workshops for people with learning and physical disabilities at The Ark, South Hill Park. For a number of years she was assistant to the Head of Touring at the National Theatre, then to the Head of Funding at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. As a qualified teacher she ran successful after school drama clubs and reAct youth drama for ten years and has led workshops and done choreography for the Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre shows. Caroline is a published writer of children’s musicals (co-written with her musician husband) which are performed by schools and youth theatres around the country (www.dp-musicals.co.uk). She was one third of the musical comedy trio Rhythm on Wry and for the past ten years has written for and performed in her comedy cabaret Doubled Up – after-dinner entertainment through to full-length show available!