Actor. Writer. Educator.

Carly Dreme Calbreath is a California-born, Boston-based, NYC-frequenting actor, writer, and educator.

Photo by Benjamin Rose

Recent Projects

  • A dark green background with a seafoam, light green graphic circle breaking into pieces. Over this background, white and dark green writing reads: This program is supported by funding from the Jewish Studio Project. Shrine Smashers Sacred Destruction

    Shrine Smashers (Workshops)

    Come play with “broken” things at this Jewish Studio Project (JSP) style text-study and art-making workshop series!

    Shrine Smashers - Sacred Destruction & Repair is the culmination of my Creative Facilitator training with JSP.  This program is supported by funding from the Jewish Studio Project and will take place at their new studio in the Boston area! Feel free to attend a single workshop or all 3. We will look at different texts each time.

    Poster by me using Canva and graphics by @roman-amanov

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  • multicolored cyber punk style city scape with a theater exterior visible

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    Thanks so much to our incredible collaborators and guests who made our Purim spiel happen! It was my pleasure to work on this devised theater project as a co-writer, costume lead, and Assistant Director.

    “Androids, Gentlebots, and Humans: the Shtetl Metal Rebels hereby invite you to a queer, futuristic Purim spiel, complete with political intrigue, punk rock, and revolutionary imaginings.”

    Poster by Victoria Rushton

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More About Me

As an actor, writer, and educator of many mediums, I aim to create speculative fiction that expands our creativity in the face of disaster, comedy that undercuts instead of reinforces existing power structures, and workshops that enable us to unravel and rewrite communal myths. My writing work focuses on characters struggling to hold loss and creation together, especially in the wake of climate catastrophe. When auditioning as an actor, I gravitate toward roles that interrogate power and trauma in intimate and structural ways.

After working in other fields like human rights lobbying and marketing project management, I chose to prioritize my creative work professionally. Those experiences still heavily impact my art, and in the last few years, I’ve invested more of my time and money in my technical education as an artist, including Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Apprenticeship (Summer, 2024), the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Shakespeare Training for Professionals series (Fall, 2024), and GrubStreet’s Summer Advanced Novel Workshop (Summer, 2023).