Carol M. Rice has been involved in theatre for over twenty-five years. She is a co-founder of Rover Dramawerks and served as President of the board for eight years and continues to serve as artistic director. Carol was a member of the charter company of Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and has also been a company member with the Gryphon Players and has worked with many other regional theatres in Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. She co-founded Bucket Productions and served as President/Artistic Director for two years and served as Artistic Director for Mesquite Theatre for four years.

Some of the plays Carol has directed include Shakespeare in Hollywood, Gilligan's Island: the Musical, Morphic Resonance, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), Twelfth Night, Inherit the Wind, and The Foreigner. She has also performed lead roles in such plays as Woman in Mind, Everything in the Garden, Noises Off, Night Must Fall, 20,000 Babes Beneath the Sea, Once Upon a Mattress, and Much Ado About Nothing. She has received awards in directing, playwriting, and design and was a Column Award nominee for acting in both 2006 and 2007.
Carol has directed her own adaptation of The Three Musketeers, and her award-winning melodrama The Belle of West Texas was included in the Mesquite Theatre's 1994 season. Her one-act play, The Dancer, was given a staged reading by Audacity Productions and was subsequently produced at Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre's New Plays Festival.

Carol received her Bachelor of Science in Education in Speech Communications/Theatre from Oklahoma Christian University, where she was named Thalian of the Year in 1986. She has taught high school drama, speech, and English, as well as teaching theatre at Dallas Children's Theater, Theatre on the Hill, Rover Dramawerks, and privately.

Outside of theatre and teaching, Carol has been an office manager, a systems administrator, a trainer, and a technical writer. She and her husband Jason have two sons, ages 4 and 6