Carolyn Bock is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts; her diverse career over 30 years has encompassed dance, theatre, television and film both nationally and internationally. As a young dancer, her passion for character dance began at the VCA under the tutelage of Anne Woolliams and specialist teacher Alida Segal. Highlights of Carolyn’s short but very sweet dance career included study trips to Moscow, dance festivals in Asia and Europe and seasons with the Israel Ballet.

She is thrilled to join the faculty at The National Ballet School. Carolyn is a familiar face on our Australian stages and TV screens with her many credits. In television and film, her most recent credits include feature films The Red Shoes-The next step and Love, Tea and Epiphany, Wentworth, INXS The Untold Story among many others. She has twice been she has been nominated for a Green Room Award for best performer in the independent theatre categories. Carolyn is co-founder of The Shift Theatre she has co-written two plays The Girls In Grey (VCE PLAYLIST 2012) and Hallowed Ground- Women Doctors in War both touring nationally and in 2019 Hallowed Ground winning a Lustrum Award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is co- creator of Garage Girls (VCE PLAYLIST 2024).

Carolyn is a passionate advocate for neurodiverse actors and she works in rural areas as a performing arts practitioner delivering working shops to all abilities groups. Over the years Carolyn has worked at many vocational training institutions, as a dance teacher and mentor for young dancers and performers, and with children and youth in rural Victoria devising theatre experiences.