An Adjunct Assistant Professor at UCLA, Ms. Caruso has trained with many distinguished acting teachers, including Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, and Milton Katselas' master class. She is the author of The Actor's Book of Improvisation: Dramatic Situations for the Teacher and the Actor published by Penguin and The Young Actor's Book of Improvisation: Dramatic Situations from Shakespeare to Spielberg, volume I and II published by Heinemann. She has appeared in a number of movies of the week and theater in Los Angeles. Ms. Caruso understudied at the Geffen playhouse for Hedda Gabler, Uncle Vanya, Wit, and for Uta Hagen in Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. She produced and directed After Magritte at the Armand Hammer Museum, Art Alive at the Getty Museum, Hamilton's Briefs, a pilot for Aaron Spelling, Once Upon a Midnight, An Encounter with Edgar Allen Poe and The Importance of Being Earnest at the Hudson Theater.
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