Carolina Đỗ is a multi-disciplinary artist, a first generation Việt born in America, the child of refugees and descendant of freedom fighters. She believes strongly in the power of weaving new and de-colonizing narratives for new world building. Her work is grounded in storytelling as a tool in the fight for liberation and centers around generational healing, diasporic longings, and collective storytelling.
She has acted in the TV shows The Blacklist, Law and Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, and FBI: Most Wanted; the films Children of the Dust, Ma's Kitchen, CRAM (Austin Film Fest), and AVIVA (SXSW); and the Broadway play Linda Vista. She has also acted in other New York plays and regional theatres.
Đỗ was a participant in the 2022-2023 Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab Cohort, is a 2022-2023 Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab Artist, and had a JACK residency in 2021. Her play, buried ruins, was a 2023 O’Neill Semifinalist, 2022 Princess Grace Semi-Finalist, 2022 Bushwick Starr Finalist, 2020 BricLab Finalist. She was also a 2023 finalist for the Leah Ryan Fund. She is the co-founder of The Sống Collective and is the community engagement manager at PlayCo. She was a founding member of Asians4Abolition.
At MacDowell, Đỗ worked on two plays; a second draft of ĂN CHƠI : eat / play / rage - (A don't fuck with the weekend shift play), and the tentatively titled Alien Play, based on three people, with different residency statuses, as they navigate the byzantine maze of U.S. immigration and question the sacrifices that they must make in order to survive. She also finished work on a pilot.
