"An earnest young woman sitting at the center of chaos, whose magical personality will illuminate the darkness"

Carolyn was raised in the Boston area and began her professional career in Chicago, in Steppenwolf Theatre's The Diary of Anne Frank (d. Tina Landau).  She is an actor, visual artist, writer, improviser, dancer and first degree black belt in Kung Fu.  Some on screen credits include Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (d. Dan Palladino), NBC's Law & Order: SVU (d. Jean de Segonzac), CBS's FBI: Most Wanted (d. Rose Troche), ABC's The Family (opposite and directed by Andrew McCarthy), CBS pilot LFE (d. David Slade), Girl Parts (d. Erik Gernand, Zach Braff Film Grant, TBS Just for Laughs, LOGO broadcast), indie features In Memoriam (d. Stephen Cone), Adam Bloom, and Sunshine Away, satirical web series The Deported, and voiceover for Nickelodeon's animated series Nella the Princess Knight (d. Ed Lewis).

Some additional on stage credits include: the extended west coast premiere of The Wolves (d. Morgan Green) at Marin Theatre Company, a critically acclaimed production of The Diary of Anne Frank (d. Derek Goldman) at Olney Theatre Center (Washington Post review headline: "Olney's 'Anne Frank' is life-affirming, thanks to Carolyn Faye Kramer in title role"), Cleveland Play House's world premiere of Emma (d. Peter Amster), Playwrights Horizons' workshop of Deborah Stein's The Feast, Huntington Theatre Company’s workshops of The Many Faces of Nia (d. Daniella Topol) & Necessary Monsters, Soho Repertory Theatre’s staged reading of Purity (d. Mallory Catlett), Berkshire Theatre Group's staged reading of So This is My Family: Mr. Green Part 2, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's reading of The Better Half, The Public Theatre's What Rhymes with America (d. Christopher Schario) - a role that required her to learn guitar and write original music, Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with NY’s Theatre 2020, the lead in world premiere of Theater for the New City's Emission, Next Theatre's End Days (d. Shade Murray) in Chicago, Eurydice in Eurydice (d. Julie Ritchey) with Filament Theatre Ensemble in Chicago, the lead in the premiere of Glassheart with Shrewd Productions in Austin,  Jewish Plays Project staged reading of The Many Faces of Nia (d. David Winitsky) at the 14th St. Y. 

Carolyn is a graduate of Northwestern University, The School at Steppenwolf, and Shakespeare & Company's STI program. She's studied improv at UCB, Magnet Theater, iO Chicago, Annoyance Theater and with Second City's Sheldon Patinkin.
Commercially, she's shot a national for AT&T opposite Charlie Day, eight internet spots for VMware, two internet spots for Master Lock, and one for Pearson. Carolyn is a regular on The Film Reroll podcast, where she improvs/table top role-plays through your favorite movies. She has performed around NYC with hip-hop improv team RoboPop and musical improv team Space God at venues such as UCB, Magnet Theater and Broadway Comedy Club, and in Act Once, Scene Two at the PIT. She is represented by Avalon Artists Group (Film/TV/Theatre) and Stewart Talent (Voiceover/Commercial).