CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN writer | poet | performer
Artist Biography:
Caroline Rothstein is an internationally touring writer, poet, performer, educator, and documentary filmmaker and producer. Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, NYLON, Narratively, The ABA Journal, Williams Magazine, The Forward, Hey Alma, Radius Lit, The Brooklyn Rail, no dear, Rogue Agent, Our Town, and elsewhere. Caroline and her work have been featured widely including in The New Yorker, MTV News, Chicago Tribune, CBS Evening News, BuzzFeed News, HuffPost, Mic, Newsweek, KUSI News, and LMCTV. She tours year-round performing poetry, public speaking, facilitating workshops and teaching at colleges, schools, performance venues, summer camps, and community organizations worldwide. She is currently a co-writing a musical about elder millennials and technology, co-authoring a romance novel, and developing her second autobiographical one-woman play, amongst several other writing, poetry, performance, audio, and film solo and collaboration projects.
She was a member of the 2010 Nuyorican Poets Cafe slam team, which placed second at the 2010 National Poetry Slam, and co-coached the 2013 Nuyorican Poets Cafe slam team, which placed third. She is a facilitator for the Dialogue Arts Project, a faculty member at the Avodah Institute for Social Change, and has been on faculty for Foundation for Jewish Camp’s annual Cornerstone Fellowship, Brandeis University’s precollege BIMA summer arts-intensive program, and elsewhere. She previously served as the Project Manager of Curriculum at JustMedia, and as a Youth Mentor at Urban Word, NYC.
Caroline has long worked as a producer and director in documentary film and was an Associate Producer on Andrea B. Scott’s “Florence, Arizona,” a producer on “We Were Once Kids,” which debuted in the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, and an executive producer and co-director for “How To Build a City,” on ALL ARTS TV. She previously hosted and produced the YouTube series “Body Empowerment,” and was President of the Board of Directors for Mental Fitness, Inc. Her award-winning one-woman play “faith” about her experience with and recovery from an eating disorder debuted as part of the Culture Project’s Women Center Stage 2012 Festival. Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, the Kelly Writers House created “The Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Program,” an annual event featuring oral poetry in its many forms and honoring Caroline’s contributions to the art form while an undergraduate on campus. She has a B.A. in classical studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.