Caroline worked in opera as Staff Director for Scottish Opera and Opera North before moving into the theatre. She directed Alasdair Gray’s The Fall of Kelvin Walker at The Arches, then joined the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, where she directed Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna [ in a Scots translation by Bill Findlay & Martin Bowman] and her own award-winning adaptation of The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. At the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh she directed many productions, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark/ Presson Allen  and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee / Segal. With her own theatre company, she directed Forbes Masson’s first musical, Stiff, and Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson.  As an Associate Director at the Royal Court Theatre, she worked exclusively with first-time writers and directed The Future is Betamax by Nicholas Kelly and Cockroach, Who? by Jess Walters.

Caroline made a sideways move into television drama and was Series Script Editor on EastEnders before joining an independent production company to develop original drama.

Caroline has always taught alongside her theatre and television work. She is a trained coach and takes her directing, theatre and television expertise into the business world.