Carter Gill

Carter Gill is an actor, director and movement instructor based in Dallas and New York. His experience in physical theatre led him to perform in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC, in Lincoln Center’s Comedy Lab with Bill Irwin and Christopher Bayes, and multiple workshops at Playwrights Horizons and Theatre for a New Audience. He has performed with companies providing opportunities for under-represented voices, like New Georges, in collaboration with Charise Castro Smith, Lee Sunday Evans, and Lucy Alibar, and The Women’s Project, in new works by Susan Soon He Stanton, Dipika Guha, and Lauren Yee, contributing to innovative and exciting storytelling.

Gill’s devised commedia and clown work includes acclaimed Off-Broadway productions: company created Commedia dell’Artichoke and Even Maybe Tammy, directed by Christopher Bayes. Regionally, his body of work includes extended runs of The 39 Steps (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Moonchildren directed by Karen Allen (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Helen Hayes Award nominated Comedy of Errors directed by Alan Paul (Shakespeare Theatre Company) and understudying in the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice directed by Les Waters, Lulu directed by Mark Lamos and Tartuffe directed by Daniel Fish (Yale Rep). His film and television work includes Harlan Coben’s Shelter (Prime), Evil (CBS), Younger (TV Land), Turn: Washington’s Spies (AMC), Person of Interest (CBS), Law & Order (NBC) and the Netflix film Banana Split.

As a director, Carter has helmed productions of Twelfth Night (Telluride Theatre Company), A Doctor in Spite of Himself, his original adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, A Flea in Her Ear (Rider University), The Servant of Two Masters and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Marymount Manhattan College). New works include The French Play by Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco (SMU), Elisabeth Gray’s workshop of Skeleton in the Pantry (Manhattan Theatre Club) and various company-created original movement pieces. His movement direction and intimacy coordination (IDC) credits include Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play directed by Stanley Wojewodski Jr. (SMU), Clue directed by Sesame Street’s Alan Murakoa, Our Town directed by Tatiana Pandiani (Dallas Theatre Center) and Hamlet (Telluride Theatre Company).

In higher education, Carter apprenticed in physical comedy and movement pedagogy under Christopher Bayes at Juilliard and Yale School of Drama and later trained extensively in clown and le jeu with the world-renowned master teacher Philippe Gaulier in Paris. In his 15 years of teaching performance technique, he’s taught consecutive courses in comedy, heightened language, and movement for actors at institutions such as Pace University, Rider University, Westminster Choir College, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts: Meisner Studio and New Studio on Broadway, University of North Texas, and Marymount Manhattan College, and has guest lectured at Yale School of Drama, Princeton University, Fordham University, and Circle in the Square Theatre School. He holds a B.F.A. in Directing from Southern Methodist University and an M.F.A. in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.

For more, visit www.cartergill.com or follow him on Instagram @carterpgill