Location: Maraval, Trinidad
Contact: caroline.neisha@gmail.com
Creative Interests: Music, Words, Theatre, Film
Writing Sample: Cherry Blossoms

More about Caroline...
Caroline Neisha Taylor (writer, performer, videographer) is a Trinidadian writer and performer. A Trinidad & Tobago National Scholarship winner and Honors degree graduate from Williams College, she has worked, studied and performed in the United States, Costa Rica, Trinidad, and Great Britain. In New York, she has worked in marketing with premiere Off-Broadway theatre companies like Second Stage and MCC Theatres. In Trinidad, she has been a performer with the Marionettes Chorale for over ten years; has worked at Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA7); volunteered with the Aurora Creative Training Organisation (ACTOR, Inc.) and has taught drama at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and the Queen's Hall Theatre Camp.  She currently writes for Caribbean Beat and Discover Trinidad and Tobago magazines, and is a writer and associate producer for the new CNMG television programme, "Iere Vibe".

Awards & Achievements
Theatrical performances include:
- David Rudder & Tony Hall's "The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club" (Queen's Hall, Trinidad)
- "The Date" (Looking Glass Forum, NY)
- "The Olympians: Birth of Athena" (Ohio Theatre, NY)
- "The Bacchae"; "The Seagull"; "Prostitutes"; and the title role in Countee Cullen's adaptation of Euripides' "Medea" (Williamstheatre, MA)

She has also written and performed various versions of a one-woman show – most recently performed as "Pack Light" at the New York International Film Festival in 2006, and previously at Williams College as "Dis, Dat & the Other" (2004), and at La Ma Ma E.T.C. in New York as "Fragments of Creole Memory".  

Awards include:
- Trinidad & Tobago Scholarship for Languages
- Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship for Theatre
- Campus Life Recognition Award for Commitment to Diversity
- Gaius Bolin Essay Prize in Afro-American Studies
- Herbert Lehman Scholarship for Service & Leadership
- Robert Wilmers Fellowship; Williams Class of 1924 Scholarship for Scholastic Achievement & Leadership.
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