Carol Moore Films

Carol co-founded Charabanc Theatre Company in 1983 and remained a co-Artistic Director and actress with the company until its closure in 1995. Charabanc toured extensively throughout Ireland and the UK as well as North America, Russia and Germany. Carol has been an actress for 25 years and was nominated Best Actress in the 1988 European Film Awards for her role as the 'model' in Reefer and the Model. Theatre directing credits include The Liverpool Boat by Maurice Bessman and Marie Jones, 1974 - The End of the Year Show by Damian Gorman, The Factory Girls by Frank McGuinness and The Cavalcaders by Billy Roach. She also acted as Creative Consultant to Red Lead Arts from 2002- 2006.

Her first short film Gort na gCnámh won four awards in 1998 including Best First Time Director at the Celtic Film Festival and Foyle Film Festival. Carol received a NESTA fellowship in 2005 for two and half years to enable her to explore and develop her ideas surrounding cultural diversity in Northern Ireland, through her practice of theatre and film-making. This work included two shorts entitled Are you seeing me? and This Belfast Thing. Carol's 50 minute documentary entitled The Farther, The Dearer about a migrant worker from Latvia screened at the Belfast Film Festival, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Montana and the San Joaquin Film Festival, California. History Unfinished was the Northern Ireland regional winner of the BAFTA 60 SEC 2008 film competition. Pumpgirl (feature film) written by Abbie Spallen, directed by Carol Moore was screened at the Belfast Film Festival in 2009.

From May 2010 until June 2011 Carol was Education and Creative Learning Coordinator at the Lyric Theatre where she designed programmes for professional training, primary and second level schools, community workshops, the Lyric Summer and Theatre Schools. One of the community programmes was the RSC Open Stages projects where the Lyric, along with 9 other regional theatres are working alongside amateur companies in skills exchanges and showcases. Since returning to freelance Carol designed InCREDible for the Youth Council and played in Kabosh's "1 in 5" production of Fever by Nicola McCartney

NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. They are the largest single endowment devoted exclusively to supporting talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. From 1998 NESTA's Fellowship Programme enhanced and stimulated the creativity and innovation of talented individuals throughout the UK working across Science, Technology and the Arts. T