Carolina Hoyos

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT CAROLINA HOYOS

CAROLINA HOYOS (she/they) is a Queer Two Spirit Writer-Director and Actor-Voice Artist-Musician. She is a first generation Peruvian-Ecuadorian Afro-Indigenous Latine of Quechua-Kichwa with Moche-Inca-Pima descent and Quariwarmi (3rd gender), or non-binary.She splits time between writing, directing and acting for stage and film as well as releasing records as singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, A Girl I Know. Her work focuses on quirky queer female-led comedies, crime, and family rooted stories that champion decolonized living. She co-wrote, produced and directed theater-feature hybrid solo festival Indigiqueer Identity: Reclaiming Past, Present and Future, and is producing and directing the development of a new full length Indigiqueer play, as part of a two year contract with Celebration Theatre. As a member of Native Voices Theater Ensemble, Carolina directed Cashed Out and Thresholds and Threads to win awards at their annual play festival. She’s teamed up with Laurelwood Pictures to direct magical realism film Skylight, based on a true story featuring Incan Thunder God Illapa. Skylight was adapted from a short essay Carolina wrote with the support of a West Hollywood Artist Grant. Birthed out of the experience of moving her Father in with her for cancer treatment, her sitcom pilot Dad Pad has been compared to Brooklyn Nine-Nine with a majority female cast. The pilot earned her fellowship in the 2019 Native American TV Writers Lab and was shortlisted to be produced by Elizabeth Banks’s digital content studio WhoHaHa. Carolina also writes and performs with improv and sketch troupes at UCB, iOWest, Comedy Central, ACME Noho, and The Clubhouse. Her troupe Nightpantz has won multiple awards from WhoHaHa with Carolina’s work highlighted in their inaugural WhoHaHa Comedy Call Out.Carolina is a 2021 Peace Studio Creative Peacebuilder. She created and performed a #MMIW solo piece commissioned by The Peace Studio, performed in Macbeth, Comedy of Errors and Romeo & Juliet with Black Girls Luv The Bard, played legendary Apache warrior Lozen in museum shero play The Bowels at Women’s Theatre Festival, voiced famed Cherokee engineer Mary Golda Ross in a Nick Jr.’s Blaze’s Amazing Race Through Time! and played a Cherokee Vice Presidential hopeful in Chinese American Film Festival winner Lee’d The Way. Other Film/TV credits include MTV Hits, Nicholas Winding Refn’s Too Old To Die Young, Austin Film Festival winner Blackwater and a Netflix *NDA* series releasing 2023.