CAROLINE, OR CHANGE

Sept 2003 – Aug 2004 (The Public Theater & Broadway; New York, NY)

Assistant Director: Niegel Smith

Directed by George C. Wolfe, Written by Tony Kushner

In 1963 Louisiana, against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, Kennedy’s assassination and the Vietnam war, the friendship between Caroline Thibodeaux, a divorced African American maid and Noah Gellman, the eight-year-old son of the Jewish family for whom she works, suffers from uncontrollable shifts. The acceptance of change – from taking money from a child to coping with memories of the past – does not come easily and threatens to crush Caroline’s relationships and spirit. It’s finally through her independent teenage daughter’s vision and strength that Caroline realizes that change can, in fact, set her free.