Carol Schlanger is an award-winning playwright, actress and performer. Her darkly comic and cutting edge vision has allowed her to work in a variety of venues, including stage, screen and television. She is an Obie (Off- Broadway) and Humanitas (Television) nominee, a recipient of Los Angeles Dramalogue Critics' award for both performance and writing (Theatre) and placed 1st in 2010 Alliance of Los Angles Playwrights' monologue slam.

Her memoir FAR OUT (Life and Love on a Wilderness Commune) will soon be available in bookstores, on Amazon and Kindle. She has appeared in major motion pictures (Don't Mess With the Zohan, China Syndrome, The Frisco Kid ) and is an artist in residence with the Jewish Women's Theater. A former sit-com writer, she is in great demand as a storyteller and has performed her written works throughout Los Angeles.