Carly L. Bodnar (she/they) is a storyteller, director, teaching artist/coach, performer, writer, producer, and editor who works in a variety of different mediums, including theatre, film, and digital storytelling.

​Recent directing credits include the short films The Tone You Used to Have (2020) and Chimera (2021). Theatrical directing credits include The Bed Show (Off-Broadway/Soho Playhouse/Unattened Baggage), Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Shakespeare in Clark Park); Twelve Chairs (Juniper Productions); The Helen Project and Jimmy Gorski is Dead (ReVamp Collective); Blithe Spirit (Hedgerow Theatre Company), Arcadia and Company (LaSalle University). Carly also served as the Community Chorus Director for Shakespeare in Clark Park’s production of Coriolanus, and was an associate/assistant director on productions at the Arden Theatre Company and Lantern Theatre Company.

Outside of directing, Carly works as an acting/career coach and teaching artist. She has taught with the Tony Award winning Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Theatre Horizon, Walnut Street Theatre, Lantern Theater Company, and Delaware Theatre Company. She has also led workshops through the McCarter Theatre Center, Pennsylvania Thespian Conference, and ESU National Shakespeare Competition.

Carly is the co-founder/co-artistic director of ReVamp Theatre Collective, as well as the former interim Artistic Director of Shakespeare in Clark Park.

Carly holds a BA in Theatre with a minor in Art History from Temple University. She is an alum of the 2018 Directors Lab West and the 2018-19 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership program. She is a proud associate member of SDC.