"To continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art."      -Eleanora Duse
Carole Zucker has been called “The Actor’s Guru” (Montreal Mirror). She trained as an actor, having studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and with Uta Hagen at HB Studios, both in New York City. She has performed in numerous off-Broadway productions and in regional theatre in the U.S. and Canada. Carole has spent the last three decades studying and teaching acting workshops, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on the acting process.
Carole has a doctorate from New York University in Cinema Studies, and teaches Cinema Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada.) She is the first university professor in Canada to design a course specifically devoted to film acting, a course she continues to offer regularly at the university. Carole is the author of six books, including Figures of Light (Plenum, 1995) , which features interviews with 21 American actors and directors including: Tommy Lee Jones, John Lithgow, Christine Lahti, Joe Mantegna, Richard Dreyfuss, Mary Steenburgen, Sydney Pollack, Bob Rafelson, and John Sayles. This was followed by In the Company of Actors (A & C Black, 1999), a collection of interviews with 16 British and Irish actors including Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Alan Bates, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Janet McTeer, Simon Callow, and Miranda Richardson. This book was extracted in The Sunday London Times. Her next book, Conversations With Actors on Film, Television and Stage Performance, is another collection of actor interviews (Heinemann Drama, 2002).
Most recently, Zucker published The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival with Wallflower Press (London, 2008). She is the winner of numerous arts grants from the Canadian government for her work on performance.