Carolyn Cantor is a co-founder and the Artistic Director of Edge Theater.

For Edge she has directed world or New York premieres of Adam Rapp's Essential Self Defense, Craig Wright’s Orange Flower Water, Adam Rapp’s Stone Cold Dead Serious, Ann Marie Healy’s Now That’s What I Call A Storm, Bathsheba Doran’s Living Room in Africa, and Calderon de la Barca’s Life Is a Dream translated by John Clifford.

Other New York credits include Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club), Neil LaBute's In A Dark, Dark House (MCC Theater), EVE-olution (Cherry Lane), and Noah Haidle's Kitty Kitty Kitty (SPF).

Regionally Carolyn has directed Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour (Old Globe), David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (Geffen Playhouse), Diary of Anne Frank (Paper Mill Playhouse), Get What You Need (New York Stage and Film), The King Stag (Williamstown Theatre Festival), After Ashley and Finer Noble Gases (both Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Nocturne (Ojai Playwright’s Conference)and Kitty Kitty Kitty (Cape Cod Theater Project).

Carolyn has been awarded the Garson Kanin-Marion Seldes Award from the American Theatre Wing, both the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, a Drama League Directing Fellowship, and a Mabou Mines artistic residency. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, the New York Theater Workshop's Usual Suspects and the Society of Stage Director's and Choreographers.

For television, Carolyn was the co-executive producer and co-director of The Green Room, a television show for Bravo that went behind the scenes at the Broadway production of Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. She produced and directed a Bravo Profile of film critic Roger Ebert and was an Associate Producer of Devil's Playground, an award winning documentary about the Amish for HBO.

Among her theatrical producing credits apart from Edge are the 1000th performance concert of The Gospel at Colonus at Carnegie Hall and the 1996-7 season at Mabou Mines.

She is a graduate of Dartmouth College.