Carol Mayo Jenkins

Carol trained for three years at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and was one of the founders of the Drama Centre London, now considered one of the leading theatre schools in England. Returning to America, she joined the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. She made her Broadway debut as Natasha in William Ball’s production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. Other Broadway appearances include Oedipus Rex with John Cullum, First Monday in October with Jane Alexander and Henry Fonda, and The Suicide with Derek Jacobi. Off-Broadway she appeared in The Lady’s Not for Burning, Little Eyolf, and The Old Ones, among many others. Carol then went to Los Angeles with the award-winning television series, Fame, in which she played English teacher, Elizabeth Sherwood, for five years. She was asked by playwright Edward Albee to play Martha in his production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, with which she toured the United States, Lithuania and Russia. Carol has been a regular performer at the Clarence Brown Theatre as an artist in residence and a member of the Theatre Department faculty for the past four years.

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

Carol Mayo Jenkins
Acting
109 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-8373
E-mail:circemae@earthlink.net