Caroline is a German-born director, based in London. A recipient of the 2009 JMK Award, she has been on attachment at the National Theatre where she completed the Director’s Course at the NT Studio in 2008. In 2012, Caroline was appointed as the Royal Court’s International Associate, developing and directing workshops and plays from all over the world. Between 2007 and 2022, she was an Associate Director at Sheffield Theatres where her credits include Resilience: The Contingency Plan, Rutherford and Son, and Love and Information.

Previous work at the Globe includes directing John Ford’s The Broken Heart in 2015.

Further theatre credits include: Alice Birch’s We Want You To Watch (National Theatre); The Tempest (Royal & Derngate); The Crucible and Brilliant Adventures (Royal Exchange Manchester); Talk Show, Mint, A Time to Reap (The Royal Court Theatre); That Almost Unnameable Lust, Taken (with Clean Break for Soho Theatre); Mad Forest (Battersea Arts Centre); Earthquakes in London (UK Tour with Headlong and the National Theatre); Show 6 (Lyric Hammersmith/UK Tour with Secret Theatre).

Internationally, she has directed And I Don’t Care How You’re Doing Anymore (Molody Theatre, Kiev); Fatherland (Radical Jung Festival, Munich/The Gate); and Sports et Divertessements (at La Carrier du Normandoux, Poltier).

Her debut short film, From A Strange Land – written and directed by Caroline and starring Amanda Abbington, Deborah Findlay, and Matthew Needham – has screened at festivals internationally. Caroline is currently developing her first feature film.