Carole Real’s plays have been called “droll…enjoyable…smart” (The New York  Times), “a delight from start to finish” (StageScene LA) and “the front runner”  (The Boston Globe). 

New York productions include The Guard Will Escort You to Ruff-Ruff (Ensemble  Studio Theatre’s Marathon of One-Act Plays), Don’t Say Another Word (59E59  Theaters) and a workshop production of Why the Beach Boys Are Like Opera at  Ensemble Studio Theatre. Beach Boys is published by Smith & Kraus, and the rights are owned by Columbia Pictures.  

Carole’s work has been produced internationally. Her one-act, The Battle of Bull  Run Always Makes Me Cry, originally work-shopped at EST’s Winterfest, has had over 100 productions in the US, Canada, England, Australia and Asia, has been performed as a short opera in Boston and translated into Chinese. It was included in Take Ten: New Ten-Minute Plays, edited by Eric Lane and Nina  Shengold, and Penguin Academics’ Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft.  

In LA, Doesn’t Anyone Know What a Pancreas Is? received an Ovation  Recommended production by EST/LA and We Used to Be Fun was also workshopped there. That play was both a semi-finalist at the O’Neill National  Playwrights Conference and a top ten finalist for the Stanley Drama Award. Why the Beach Boys Are Like Opera was produced in LA at The Met Theatre and The  Fountain Theatre. 

Most recently, Carole contributed a monolog, The Hat Made It Real, to Period  Piece, a showcase of 36 monologues de-stigmatizing menstruation. It was performed by Tony winner Cady Huffman and streamed on Stellar. 

A member of the Dramatists Guild and of the WGA, Carole has penned primetime and daytime television for CBS, ABC and Fox.