Carolyn Adams
Birth Place: Harlem, NY, USA
FUNNY GIRL Will Come to Gilbert & Sullivan Society of South Australia Will Present (May 6, 2026)
Paul Taylor Dance Company Revives Works Not Seen in 50 Years at The Joyce (May 21, 2025)
Paul Taylor Dance Company Rarely Seen Works Featured In Joyce Theater Engagement (Apr 3, 2025)
BIO
Carolyn Adams, (Award Winning Costume Designer & Wardrobe Stylist, Costumer, Milliner, Image-Wardrobe-Research Consultant, Hair & Make-Up Artist, Producer, Visionary),
Studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology, The Black Fashion's Museum's Harlem Institute of Fashion and Forty Acres And A Mule Film Works. Theatre Credits include but not limited to: TWO TRAIN'S RUNNING, By August Wilson, Prod. By Aundrea Fulton, DUTCHMAN By Amiri Baraka, Dir. Woodie King, Jr., BLACK WALL STREET, By Celeste Bedford Walker, WHISTLE IN MISSISSIPPI: The Emmit Til Story by, Daniel Carlton, Nat King Cole, By Verlon Brown, Dir. By, Rome Neal, I Got The Last Laugh!, The Life and Times Of Jackie "Moms" Mabley, LBJ, By Jamal Williams, Produced By, Karen Mobley, Dir. By Jamal Williams & Tomicko Ball, The Price Of The Ticket, By M. Younger Roberts, produced by Garland Lee Thompson & The H.A.D.L.E.Y Players; Sweet Mamma Stringbeans, Dir. Elizabeth Van Dyke, Mr. Hirsch Died Yesterday, Dir. By Woodie King, Jr., Produced By, Jessica Massad & Castillo Theater, If Harlem Could Talk, Written and Directed By, James Gillard.
Carolyn, is also a Fashion Stylist, Costume & Image Consultant, Wardrobe Supervisor & Technician, Image, Wardrobe, Costume & Acessories Research Consultant, Producer, Personal Shopper and a noted Millinery Designer. As a Fashion & Wardrobe Stylist, she is the recipient of the, “American Photo Magazine” and “Elle Girl Magazine's” Fashion, Costume and Wardrobe Stylist Of The Year Award. Television credits: The Essence Awards, The Children's Choice Awards and Uptown Fashion Avenue. Carolyn's, Private Cilents, Film, Video, WebSeries and TV credits include:Actor/comedian, Phyllis Y. Stickney, Recording Artist/Song Writer and music legends; Teddy Riley & Blackstreet, Cuba Gooding, Sr., Chuck Jackson and OC Smith, Dana's Story, The Birth Of Hip Hop, Just to name a few.
News
by Stephi Wild - May 6, 2026
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of South Australia will present FUNNY GIRL at The Arts Theatre, with the role of Fanny Brice shared among three performers: Olivia Sutton, Sarah Hamilton, and Sophie Stokes.
by Stephi Wild - May 21, 2025
The Paul Taylor Dance Company will return to The Joyce Theater in June, with a landmark engagement that breathes new life into two rarely seen dances from the 1960s and 1970s.
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 3, 2025
The Paul Taylor Dance Company will return to The Joyce Theater from June 17–22, 2025, with a landmark engagement that breathes new life into three rarely seen dances from the 1960s and 1970s.
by Stephi Wild - Sep 10, 2024
The Paul Taylor Dance Company will return to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for its annual Fall Season from November 5 through November 24, 2024, with music performed live by Orchestra of St. Luke’s
by Stephi Wild - Sep 4, 2024
Choreographer and Dance Educator Amy Marshall, who danced with Taylor 2 from 1995 to 1999, has been named Associate Director of Education of Taylor, the leading dance organization.
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 16, 2023
The Board of Trustees of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation today announced that Robert Battle, Artistic Director of Ailey since 2011, has informed them that he needs to focus on his health and has submitted his resignation.
by Stephi Wild - Oct 24, 2023
This fall, in preparation for its New York Season at Lincoln Center, the Paul Taylor Dance Company is partnering with the Police Athletic League (PAL) for its Polaris Project Outreach Initiative to offer five creative workshops, culminating in an open house community performance, held at PAL’s Harlem Center on November 4th.
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 7, 2023
Performing and visual artists are banding together in Save NYSSSA Now to relaunch arts programming for talented high school students in the 52-year old New York Summer School for the Arts, known as NYSSSA. Despite an even greater need for student expression, the program has not been scheduled for 2024.
by Stephi Wild - May 12, 2023
Dancer/choreographer Clymene Aldinger announces her company CLYMOVE's spring season May 26 & 27, presenting Time Signatures, an evening of nine contemporary dance pieces, all choreographed by Aldinger, and consisting of a series of solos, trios, and quartets, performed by four outstanding dancers whose divergent and contrasting life experiences celebrate the Company's individual uniqueness and shared humanity.
by Marina Kennedy - Dec 9, 2022
The 2022 Season performances by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York City Center are now on stage to the delight of metro area audiences.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 23, 2022
'LEAVES” by Victor Vauban Jr. will be presented at Teatro LATEA Nov.30th, Dec. 2nd & 4th. The primary themes of this play include assimilation, colorism, the importance of family and mental health.
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 29, 2022
In conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum's Alex Katz retrospective - Alex Katz: Gathering - join Paul Taylor Dance Company Artistic Director Michael Novak and celebrated Taylor alumna and educators Carolyn Adams and Susan McGuire as they discuss the lasting resonance of Alex Katz's collaborations with dancemaker Paul Taylor. Select archival video highlights from their 15 collaborations will be screened, as well as insights into the process, design, and impact of interdisciplinary collaborations.
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 27, 2022
Artist Alex Katz and choreographer Paul Taylor collaborated on 15 works. In conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum's retrospective Alex Katz: Gathering, Works & Process will present a performance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in the Guggenheim rotunda. Selected by Michael Novak, Paul Taylor Dance Company Artistic Director, Polaris, a 1976 collaboration between Taylor and Katz will offer audiences a unique and unprecedented opportunity to see the performance-normally shown on a proscenium stage-up close and from 360 degrees.
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 7, 2022
The Paul Taylor Dance Company (PTDC) will return to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for its highly-anticipated New York City Season from November 1 to November 13, 2022.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 16, 2022
As a process-focused performing arts organization, Works & Process continued to provide opportunities and fees for artists throughout the pandemic, and pioneered the bubble residency model to support their work safely. The fall 2022 season will feature the official world premieres of works created by New York artists.
by Barry Lenny - Jun 3, 2022
This is a fun night out. See what BWW's critic thinks about this production.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 1, 2022
Therry Theatre has announced that its next production is the South Australian premiere of the Cameron Mackintosh musical, Betty Blue Eyes, adapted by Alan Bennett from his screenplay for the film, A Private Function.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 11, 2022
Paul Taylor Dance Company will perform at the inaugural City Center Dance Festival from March 24-31, at New York City Center.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 27, 2021
The Paul Taylor Dance Company has announced additions to the organization. Jessica Ferretti and Austin Kelly have joined the world-renowned Company, and Michael Apuzzo and alumnus Richard Chen See will join the administrative team.
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 27, 2021
Theater for the New City presents Leaves, a powerful drama written and directed by Victor Vauban Jr. about assimilation, colorism, the importance of family, love and mental health.
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