Carol-Ann Rudy

Carol-Ann Rudy is TicketNews's Broadway Reporter. Her path to writing for TicketNews.com has been a circuitous one: born in British Columbia, Canada, she grew up in that province as well as Ontario and Quebec. After graduating from the Vancouver School of Art and living in Toronto for a few years, Carol-Ann moved to Florida, attended Daytona Beach Community College, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida. As a working artist, she exhibited her watercolor work throughout the state, then taught elementary school for thirteen years, became an Education Consultant for Computer Curriculum Corporation, followed by a stint as a technical writer for three national corporations, and was the Newspaper In Education Services Writer for The Miami Herald.

Professional affiliations include the Society for Technical Communication and the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Currently, Carol-Ann is an author in search of an agent: she finished a children’s middle-grade mystery novel and two picture book manuscripts with other stories in the works. One of these days, she expects to finish an adult murder mystery she has been working on. In the past, she wrote and illustrated two children’s books for a niche market in Florida.

Carol-Ann's interests include theater, reading, writing for children, writing poetry, painting, and sculpting. She is a member of American Mensa and Triple Nine Society. Carol-Ann is a mother of two grown children and shares her life with her husband Richard in their home on a lake in a forest in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Carol Ann's love of Broadway? That comes from the years of dancing, singing, acting onstage, and designing and decorating sets as a member of the Key Biscayne Music & Drama Club. She and her husband met in the Calusa Playhouse in 1989 and were married onstage in 1994 at the end of the last performance of Love, Sex and the IRS which Richard directed with a set Carol Ann designed, complete with guests dressed as their favorite character. Carol Ann's most recent performance was as Mrs. Braddock opposite her husband in The Graduate at the David Reid Little Theatre in Spartanburg – of course, she really wanted to play the part of Mrs. Robinson!