Carol Blanco met The OFFICE team Company Managing Wayne McGregor/Olafur Eliasson’s production of Tree of Codes at the Park Avenue Armory. She was delighted to join in adventures on the road thereafter with projects such as William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour and The Head & The Load, Carrie Mae Weems’ Grace Notes, The Reach Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center, Theater of War’s Antigone in Ferguson, The Onassis Festival, Bangsokol, Carrie Mae Weems/Robert Wilsons Crossroads Festival, The Mile Long Opera, in venues such as The Tate Modern, The Holland Festival, MASS MoCA, Watermill, BAM and the like. Prior to coming onboard full-time with The OFFICE, Carol worked as Company Manager at The Park Avenue Armory on such productions as Robert Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, Kenneth Branaugh’s Macbeth, Heiner Goebbel’s De Materie, Peter Sellers/Regg Roc’s FLEXN, and Richard Jones The Hairy Ape, to name a few. Further back, she loved being Associate Producer for The Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur, California, and working with Quaternaire of Paris, France. Her life before the glamor of Arts Management was spent as a performer, primarily in dance. She is proud to have taught and choreographed for many years in ABT’s Education Dept as well as NYC Ballet’s Education Dept. Her choreography was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center Rose Theater, La MaMa, INTAR Off-Bway, and other venues. Teaching, designing curriculum, and proving relatively organized led to jobs casting and coordinating local dancers and actors for many visiting companies (The Bolshoi, The Kirov, The Royal Ballet, The Young Vic, Les Artes Florissants, Abby Theatre, Meow Meow Holiday Cabaret, Paris Opera Ballet, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Josie Rourke’s The Machine, White Lights Festival, Royal Ballet, Netherlands Opera, Thomas Ostermeier’s Miss Julie, David Henry Hwangs Silver River, Shirin Neshat’s Logic of the Birds, Royal Court Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, Universal Ballet, etc) at Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House Special Events, BAM, City Center, and so on. At the beginning of Carol’s adult origin story, she received her B.A. in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley and her M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism from CUNY/Brooklyn College. She is a Berkeley native and plays Classical Guitar.