Caroline Kelly Franklin
New York, NY
TV WRITING
Original Pilot "The Bronte Girls"
Sundance Episodic Lab- Current Second Rounder
2019 Screencraft Fellowship- Current Finalist
Top 20 on 2019 Cover Fly Red List
2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Competition Semifinalist
THEATER
Full-length play "The Bronte Girls: Part 3, Gods and Correspondence"
Top 25 finalist in Screencraft's 2018-2019 Stage Play Competition
Full-length play "The Bronte Girls: Part 2, Monsters and Etiquette"
Top 25 finalist in Screencraft's 2018-2019 Stage Play Competition
Full-length play "The Bronte Girls: Part 1, Ghosts and Attraction"
Second-rounder for the 2018 Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship
Quarterfinalist in Screencraft's 2018-2019 Stage Play Competition
One-act play "Last Night at The Carmine"
Published as one of the Top 20 plays of the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival
PRESS
Excerpts From the World Premier of "Last Night at The Carmine" in The 2015 International New York Fringe Festival
NEW YORK THEATRE NOW by Nita Congress · August 21, 2015
Playwright and director Caroline Kelly Franklin has created an empathetic panegyric to the “Third Space” that fuels and facilitates our interactions. She underscores the universalism at the play’s core…profound and beautiful concepts
Sad and bittersweet, Last Night at the Carmine drives home the importance of community and of trying to bridge the untranslatable through human connection: a message that in these troubled times cannot be reiterated sufficiently.
Last Night at the Carmine raises a glass or two in celebration of the remarkable proficiency of New Yorkers to forge community within
A dozen characters…strut and fret, soothe and flirt, sob and flinch as the evening progresses and the end nears.
THEATRE IS EASY, Antonio Mining-THEASY.COM
Charming vignettes… quirky cast of characters… Franklin succeeds at endowing the building with breath and a heartbeat… Franklin has a gift for sharp & witty dialogue… absurd and comical
HI!DRAMA, Kristin Hardwick
Entertaining with surprising twist…characters portrayed with style and vigor without upstaging each other… innovative blocking keeps audience engaged
