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Caroline Mincks

Producer, Director, Writer, Actor

About

Caroline Mincks has been acting all their life, and directing children's theater for seven years. In 2019 they made the transition to audio fiction, where they rapidly made a name for themself as an actor, writer, director, and producer of original work. Their catalogue is extensive and growing daily. Whether they're showrunning, consulting, or acting, Caroline is embedded in the world of audio fiction, and producing work featuring their unique voice.Caroline has garnered particular attention with their exploration of late-onset deafness in the show Seen and Not Heard, a slice-of-life fiction piece drawn from their own experiences. Seen and Not Heard, which Caroline writes, directs, and stars in, has won an Audio Verse Award (Best Writing for a New Audio Play) and been featured in The Bello Collective, The New York Times, Discover Pods, and The Atlantic, and represents an unusual exploration of the strengths and limits of audio as a medium.

Credits

Audio Fiction: Showrunner, Producer, Director

  • Seen and Not Heard

  • Light Hearts

  • Hughes and Mincks: Ghost Detectives

  • SHIFTS

  • Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcast Project

  • Surreal Love

  • {Queer} Pride & Prejudice

  • Silly Old Bear

Audio Fiction: Writer, Editor, Consultant

  • Seen and Not Heard

  • Scary Stories for Modern Minds

  • SHIFTS

  • Light Hearts

  • Hughes and Mincks: Ghost Detectives

  • Surreal Love

  • Alternative Stories and Fake Realities, “Wayfaring Stranger”

  • This Planet Needs a Name

  • Temujin: An Audio Drama

  • Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcast Project

  • Someone Dies In this Elevator, “Legend”

  • Someone Dies In this Elevator, "Fix it Going Forward"

  • Quiver: A Collection, "Sunrise" (in production)

  • {Queer} Pride & Prejudice

  • Silly Old Bear

Audio Performer

  • The Reignition Theory - Captain Chloe Vasker

  • Finding Atlas (To Have and To Hold) - Henry Porter

  • With Caulk and Candles - Emma Blackshire

  • Marémoto - La Directrice and background voices

  • This Planet Needs a Name - Zahava Silberberg

  • Through Stained Glass - Marcella

  • Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - Narrator, “Wayfaring Stranger”

  • Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - Kylie, “Christmas Special”

  • Alternative Stories and Fake Realities - Kylie, “The Out-of-Towners Club”

  • Me, My Demon, and I - Sister Mary, Thelma

  • Seen and Not Heard - Bet Kline

  • New Life - Rebecca Starr

  • Ad Read - Computer God

  • Sidequesting - Astrid

  • Light Hearts - Janine Bell

  • Disenchanted - Thelma

  • Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magick Services - Charlie Muta

  • Great & Terrible - Lacey Stevens

  • Hughes and Mincks: Ghost Detectives - Mincks

  • Weird Tales - Guest reader “Parakeet”

  • The One Stars - Reviewer: “Ukelele” and “Time Machine”

  • Surreal Love - Naunet

  • SHIFTS - Dahlia Warner

  • The Spooky Sapphic Storyteller - Frankie

  • MonkeyTales - Mattie

  • Disenchanted - Mincks

  • Someone Dies in this Elevator - Annie

  • Forgive Me! - Emily

  • Margaret’s Garden - Cobalt

  • {Queer} Pride & Prejudice - Darcy

  • Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcast Project - Cecily Wolverhampton, Stage Manager Tabitha, "Exit, Pursued By a Ghost"

  • Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcast Project - Dee, "In the Heist"

  • Desperado - Zylla

  • Twilight Over Midgard - Sigyn (in production)

  • Human Error - Jace

  • Dining in the Void - Berwin Nightingale

  • Ritual Six - Fate

  • We Fix Space Junk - Mack, "Help! (If Convenient)"

  • Zombies, Run! - Natalie, "Season of the Hunter"

Audio: Nonfiction Appearances

  • JV Reads the T - Guest, episode 2

  • Pod and Prejudice - Guest, miniseries episode 1

  • Empty the Queues - Guest host, Avatar: the Last Airbender track

  • Deviant Guests - Guest, episode 3

  • Seen and Not Heard (Bonus Interviews) - Host

  • Word Bomb - Guest, "Deaf or deaf? Capitalizing a community"

  • MADIVA - Guest, episode 402

  • Podcast Radio Hour - Guest, episode "Religion in Audio Drama"

  • Read By Daylight - Co-host

Theatre Direction

  • Seussical the Musical, Jr

  • Into the Woods, Jr

  • Legally Blonde, Jr

  • Jungle Book Kids

  • Singin’ in the Rain, Jr

  • Once On This Island, Jr

  • Fiddler on the Roof, Jr

  • Aladdin, Jr

  • Frozen, Jr

  • Schoolhouse Rock, LIVE!, Jr

  • Beauty and the Beast, Jr

Theatre Performance

  • The Sound of Music - Maria

  • Hello, Dolly! - Irene Molloy

  • The Merchant of Venice - Jessica

  • As You Like It - Celia

  • King Lear - Duke of Albany

  • Speed-the-Plow - Charlie Fox

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