Biography
Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky is a filmmaker, playwright, visual artist, and award-winning co-author, with Nell Beram, of Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies. Her plays have appeared on stage in New York and online in venues such as Smartphone Theatre and Gallery Players. Combining her love of visual art and story-telling, Boriss-Krimsky cowrote with Nick DeSimone, a film called Floating, based on one of her short plays of the same name. She is the executive producer of the film (now in post production), a member of the Playwright/Directors Unit at The Actors Studio, NYC, and HB Studio Playwrights Forum, NYC. Her work explores art, love, loss, obsession, and the search for wholeness.
Explore her selected film, playwriting productions and staged readings.
Explore her selected film, playwriting productions and staged readings.
Boriss-Krimsky also co-wrote with Nell Beram an award-winning biography of Yoko Ono, titled Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies, published by Abrams Books, NYC in 2013. The book, considered one of the best books with significant feminist content for young adult readers, made the Amelia Bloomer Project List in 2014, YALSA’s Outstanding Books for the College Bound 2014 list, and the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s Choices 2014 title. Jack Feerick in Popdose describes the book as "an invitation to consider a world in which Yoko Ono the artist can be considered in herself, not as half of a famous marriage." And Ann Angel, author of Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, wrote, "This stunning biography is of a beautiful soul whose impact spans the globe and whose art has forged new ways of seeing the world."
Focusing primarily on the multimedia work of women artists, Boriss-Krimsky has also written for arts magazines. Selections from her published arts writings include, “Multimedia Pioneer: An Interview with Yoko Ono”, (Ruminator Review, 2002), “Yoko Ono: Art of the Mind,” (Art New England, 2001), “Self-taught Art: Who are the Outsiders in 'Outsider' Art?'” (Art New England, 2001) and “The Art of Public Conversation: A Look at Anna Deavere Smith and the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue,” (ArtsAround Boston, 2000).
In 2015 Boriss-Krimsky co-wrote a monologue along with Benjamin Clossey called, Little Mr. Wonderful. It was included in the book Best Contemporary Monologues for Kids Ages 7-15, published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, in Milwaukee, WI, and edited by Lawrence Harbison.
At NYU, she studied with innovators like master printmaker Robert Blackburn and painters John Opper and Mercedes Matter, founder of the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village. Using a freewheeling, multimedia approach, she taught in urban public schools, colleges, art studios, mental health centers and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Boriss-Krimsky is also the author a highly regarded art education book called The Creativity Handbook.
In Cambridge, MA, Boriss-Krimsky was part of a neighborhood art collective that created The Sacramento Street Gallery (now The Chandler Gallery) focused on art exhibits, exchange of ideas, and community outreach. She also launched Artspace, an art salon that nurtured the creative vision of young children, teens and adults. As a visual artist, she is best known for monotypes that merge painting, printmaking and collage into fragmented dialogues. Like her plays, they examine boundaries, connections and the search for wholeness.
Focusing primarily on the multimedia work of women artists, Boriss-Krimsky has also written for arts magazines. Selections from her published arts writings include, “Multimedia Pioneer: An Interview with Yoko Ono”, (Ruminator Review, 2002), “Yoko Ono: Art of the Mind,” (Art New England, 2001), “Self-taught Art: Who are the Outsiders in 'Outsider' Art?'” (Art New England, 2001) and “The Art of Public Conversation: A Look at Anna Deavere Smith and the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue,” (ArtsAround Boston, 2000).
In 2015 Boriss-Krimsky co-wrote a monologue along with Benjamin Clossey called, Little Mr. Wonderful. It was included in the book Best Contemporary Monologues for Kids Ages 7-15, published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, in Milwaukee, WI, and edited by Lawrence Harbison.
At NYU, she studied with innovators like master printmaker Robert Blackburn and painters John Opper and Mercedes Matter, founder of the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village. Using a freewheeling, multimedia approach, she taught in urban public schools, colleges, art studios, mental health centers and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Boriss-Krimsky is also the author a highly regarded art education book called The Creativity Handbook.
In Cambridge, MA, Boriss-Krimsky was part of a neighborhood art collective that created The Sacramento Street Gallery (now The Chandler Gallery) focused on art exhibits, exchange of ideas, and community outreach. She also launched Artspace, an art salon that nurtured the creative vision of young children, teens and adults. As a visual artist, she is best known for monotypes that merge painting, printmaking and collage into fragmented dialogues. Like her plays, they examine boundaries, connections and the search for wholeness.