CAROLYNE BARRY, in the last 30 years, has had extensive professional experience as an Actress, Teacher, Casting Director, Director, and Producer. As an actress she has over 100 television and film acting credits and has appeared in more than 400 national commercials. In the last twelve years, Carolyne has cast over 500 commercials and infomercials for some of New York's top commercial agents. Since 1982, she has been one of the most successful Commercial Acting Coaches in Los Angeles thanks to agents, managers and student recommendations. Ms. Barry is known and respected as the toughest and most thorough Commercial Acting Coach and at present, has twelve workshops that she offers as part of her specialized curriculum.

In the late 1970's she Co-Founded and was the Artistic Director of the ETC. Ensemble Theater Company in New York . This was a State Funded, Off-off Broadway Theater which produced numerous original pieces. Many of which Carolyne Barry either co-created, directed, produced, choreographed and /or starred in.

From 1983 till 1989, Carolyne created and ran Professional Artist Group which at that time was the largest training and casting facility in the country. In 1995, she co-created and directed Hysterical Blindness" a musical comedy that ran in Los Angeles for five months before it went to off-Broadway in New York City where it had an extensive run. And in 2002, she was a top 50 finalist in HBO's Project Greenlight Director's competition.

In the next year, Carolyne is making plans to direct her first film. A low budget, character driven comedy that she has written.

Carolyne Barry had been featured as a teaching authority in the The Hollywood Reporter , L.A. Reader, The Examiner, and recently in Backstage West (Check the Media reviews for some of these articles) as well as on C.N.N., K.H.J., K.T.T.V. and numerous other TV and Radio talk shows throughout the country. Recently, Carolyne has been a regular contributing writer to Backstage West's Commercial Break column.