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Understudy: Marian Starrett and Winona Stephens in Shane
Carolina Hoyos is a nonbinary Two Spirit Afro-Indigenous (Quechua- Kichwa) Latine stage and film actor-writer-director, musician and voice artist. Recent stage credits: Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, The Bowels,and solo commissions from The Peace Studio and Celebration Theatre. Carolina directed multi-cam feature film/theater hybrid Indigiqueer Identity: Reclaiming Past, Present and Future and Birthday Brunch, both for Celebration Theatre. Recent film/TV credits include Magnum PI, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Family Business, and Too Old To Die Young. As a voice actor, Carolina voiced Cherokee engineer Mary Golda Ross in Blaze’s Amazing Race, narrated four Audiofile Earphone Award winning audiobooks and placed 8th in Discover Sci-Fi’s Best Audiobooks of 2024. She’s voiced numerous characters in the video games Street Fighter, Fallout76 and Friends vs. Friends. Seven original song compositions can be heard in Indigenous Heist film The Great Salish Heist. Carolina is a 2023 CalCreative Artist-In-Residence, 2021 Peace Studio Creative Peacebuilder, a 2020 West Hollywood Directing Artist, a 2019 LA Skins TV Writer Lab Fellow and was an official LA County Artist from 2019-2023. http://carolinahoyos.com