| Caro has worked in the arts, media and content industries ever since her student days in Edinburgh. Actively involved in Edinburgh University's students' union, newspaper and theatre company, there she honed her skills as an editor, writer, actor, director and producer.
In 1996 she was part of the team that founded Edinburgh Festival newspaper ThreeWeeks. As Co-Publisher of the paper since the late 90s she developed its hugely popular media education programme, and helped make it the biggest reviewer at the festival.
While developing ThreeWeeks, Caro also continued to work in the theatre. She wrote and performed in the acclaimed one woman play 'Fat Girl', and produced and directed a number of new plays at Edinburgh's Fringe and in London's West End.
In 2002 she co-founded UnLimited Media, bringing together ThreeWeeks with music industry network CMU, as well as creating a uniquely integrated content, communication and consulting business, providing both creative and communications services and expertise to other brands, companies and marketing agencies.
Through UnLimited, she also became a co-editor of the CMU Daily, the UK music business' favourite daily news service, as well as continuing to develop ThreeWeeks and its education programme, including expanding the title to cover the Brighton Festival each May.
Since Autumn 2009 she has also been spearheading the development of UnLimited's newest media platform ThisWeek, providing daily culture news for London people. This new venture will be a particular focus for Caro in the coming year, with plans to expand the ThisWeek service to include interviews, comment pieces and an extensive review network of theatre, comedy, music, film and literary events in London.
Primarily working from her home office in a picturesque little village near Cambridge, though Edinburgh-based during August, Caro continues to edit all of the ThreeWeeks media (including editing and approving every single ThreeWeeks review - all 2194 of them in 2009!) as well as inputting on UnLimited's cultural consulting projects.
Through her role editing ThreeWeeks she is a leading expert on the Edinburgh and Brighton festivals, and has something of an encyclopedic knowledge of the shows and performers that have appeared there in the last decade. Meanwhile, as editor of ThisWeek, Caro has unrivalled knowledge of the latest trends and developments across the UK's cultural industries.
Caro splits her time between her UnLimited projects and bringing up her 2 year old daughter Cecily. She's also thinking about getting round to finishing that novel. |
