Carrie Jean Henley
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Carrie Jean Henley
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CV/Resume

CV

Education

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts - Collaborative Arts BFA, Disability Studies Minor, Business of Entertainment Minor


New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts - AOS Musical Theater, Expected 2027

Theater

Summer Teaching Artist (Director/Choreographer) - Adventure Theatre MTC - 2023

Intern - Open Circle Theater - 2023 - Present


For  detailed performance credits, see the downloadable resume on the "Acting/MT" tab or below.

Writing

TV

Scraps - 2024 (WGA Registered) - Honorable Mention at the 2024 BAFF awards


Features

Segway Slenderman - 2024


Shorts

Lemon Sorbet - 2024

AWOL - 2024

Becoming Slender - 2024 (WGA Registered) - Quarterfinalist in 2024 Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest


Musicals

Morn Greycastle The Uneducated - 2024


Other

Things To Say/Things To Feel - Poetry Book - 2024 (Self-Published)

Film

Filmed Readings

Scraps - 2024 - Writer, Director, Producer

Segway Slenderman - 2024 - Writer, Director, Producer, Actor


Short Films

Ghost Party - 2024 - Gaffer

AWOL - 2024 - Writer, Director, Producer, Gaffer, Editor, Colorist

Lemon Sorbet - 2024 - Writer, Director, Producer, Co-Director of Photography, Gaffer, Editor, Colorist 

If I Was A Worm - 2024 - Director of Photography, Gaffer

Godspeed - 2024 - Director of Photography, Gaffer

The Secret Ingredient - 2024 - Director of Photography, Gaffer

Twenty - 2023 - Director of Photography, Gaffer

The Pigeons - 2022 - Writer, Director, DP, Editor


Music Videos

Regret - 2025 - Dancer, Director, Editor, Colorist

Dallas Home - 2023 - Writer, Director, DP, Editor, Colorist

Silver Eyes - 2023 - Writer, Director, DP, Editor

Music/Audio

Singles

Regret - 2025


Albums

atrocities - 2024

Fantasy Land  - 2023

Party of One - 2022


Podcasts

No Longer Weak - 2024

Project Afterlife - 2024


Performances

Rockwood Music Hall - 2024

Kennedy Center Millennium Stage - 2024

Bookclub Bar - 2025

DISABILITY RIGHTS STATEMENT

I knew I wanted to spend my life acting since I was five years old. I grew up constantly playing pretend, writing stories and songs, and furthering my craft with various local acting, singing, and dance programs. However, after a Muscular Dystrophy diagnosis at the age of 7, acting became more than a just hobby. It started as an escape, a release of my frustrations dealing with an uncooperative body. Writing a story was not merely enough---I wanted to live it. I walked out of my body and into that of whomever I was playing, learning to see myself as them, to bring all aspects of myself BUT my disability into my work. 

I fell into Shakespeare through my love of over the top drama, and then into musical theatre (where I have since remained), in awe of the ability to combine acting, singing, and dance into one. It was with Adventure Theatre MTC's phenomenal pre-professional program that I learned to embrace my disability as a part of myself. Dance is a beautiful thing---creating something out of our bodies---and something I had felt very disconnected from. I felt like I didn't deserve to love my disability, my body, because of a society that so frequently failed to hear my struggle. 

It was then that I found my real calling: to become a voice for everyone else who has ever felt this way.

I have continued performing onstage, owning my adapted dance style, and striving to bring disability into each role as a strength and an asset---and have seriously advanced my technique writing stories and songs. I strive to create something new and interdisciplinary, rooted in disability, blossoming into an empire of unheard voices. An empire of strength, driven by the one greatest strength we all have and fail to acknowledge as such:

WEAKNESS.

Albums (available wherever you get your music)

Atrocities

Fantasy Land

Fantasy Land

Atrocities (2024) is an experimental synth-pop album incorporating sampling into commercial pop

Fantasy Land

Fantasy Land

Fantasy Land

Fantasy Land (2023) is a dark alt-pop album featuring single "Dallas Home"

Party of One

Fantasy Land

Party of One

Party of One (2022) is a primarily acoustic singer/songwriter album and my first release :)


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