Caryl Butterley

Caryl Butterley was a working producer, director and actor in New York City for over 20 years before relocating to Jacksonville. While in New York, she spent a season with the Manhattan Theatre Club as assistant production manager, working on the Broadway production of A Small Family Business, as well as the Off-Broadway productions of Lips Together Teeth Apart, Sight Unseen, The Extra Man, and more. Her NY directing credits include Loves and Other Losses, Fall River Tragedy, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, When Michael Died, and a concert performance of the new musical Fallen Angel at Bay Street Theatre, featuring the legendary Phoebe Snow. She also served as Artistic Director on the symphonic recording of the new musical Eagle Song, and produced and directed the cabaret series Downtime at Eighty-Eights. Caryl studied theatre at the University of Minnesota, acting with Sandy Dennis at HB Studio, musical performance with Betty Buckley, and is a former fellow with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Since moving to Jacksonville, Caryl’s work with the local theatre community has included directing The Sugar Bean Sisters, Once On This Island, Love Loss and What I Wore, On The Verge, and The Vandal at ABET, Fahrenheit 451 and A Picasso with The 5 & Dime (of which she is a founding member), and since founding Actors Collective has directed Photograph 51 and One By Tenn Plus Eight.