Carolyn Ratteray is an emmy-nominated  actor, director, and writer based in the Los Angeles area.

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Carolyn’s one woman show, Both And (A Play About Laughing While Black) won the Los Angeles New Play Project Award in 2021. The show had a world premiere at Boston Court Theatre in May 2022; the Wallis Center for Performing Arts remounted it in January 2024. 

Carolyn also wrote, directed, and starred in her short film, Unclaimed, a comedic episodic about polyamory. It won awards at the DTLA Film Festival for Best Web Series and Best Screenplay and also gained international recognition with film festival screenings in the US and Canada beginning in 2022 and onward.

Her film and TV credits include notable appearances in Riley Parra, Seasons of Love, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, The Young and the Restless, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Castle, All My Children, and Chemistry. She has voiced several video games including Red Dead Redemption II, Mafia: Definitive Edition, and Far Cry Dawn.  Carolyn's received her M.F.A. from The Old Globe/University of San Diego and a B.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. You will also find her in regular Improv and Clown training with teachers such as Philip Gaulier, Chris Bayes, David Bridel, and Angela De Castro. 

She is a Resident Artist at A Noise Within Theatre, and a member of Antaeus Theatre and Ammo Theatre Company. She is as an acting professor at Pomona College.