CAROL OSTROW ’73
Carol is the producing director of The Flea, the award-winning off-off-Broadway theater located in New York City. There, Carol has produced over 100 world premiere productions and is overseeing The Flea’s capital campaign of a new three theater performing arts center opening in the spring of 2017. Carol was producing director of the Classic Stage Company, founder of The Powerhouse Theater and also has served as an adjunct professor of theater at Vassar College, Chatham College, and McGill University. Carol is a new trustee of Vassar as well as a new board member of The MacDowell Colony, the oldest arts colony in the U.S. She also is a member of the Yale Drama School Board of Advisors, a board member of LAVA, an acrobatic dance collective in Brooklyn, a trustee of Central Synagogue and serves on the Boards of Directors of the National Psoriasis Foundation and the Sag Harbor Partnership. Carol holds a B.A. from Vassar and an M.F.A. from the Yale Drama School.
“At Ellis, I saw girls and women being empowered because there were no boys in the classroom. When I went to college, I had a leg up. I was more mature intellectually so without fear, I was able to be who I wanted to be early on.”
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