Carly's profile

Carly J Bales is a performance artist, director, and arts organizer based in Baltimore. She makes plays, performance art, and homes for people to make art. Her work explores the often thin territories between humor and despair, intimacy and strangeness, manner and hysteria, toward a more expansive, beautiful, and bizarre experience of the world. Since 2010, she has become "DIY theater’s most go-for-broke performer" and "an integral actor/performer in both the city's do-it-yourself theater and experimental performance art communities."


Arts Organizing Endeavors include:

  • Founding Executive Director of LE MONDO, an artist-run performance hub and development project.
  • Founding Artistic Director of EMP Collective, an award-winning multidisciplinary arts space. “A hub of artistic activity” that was recognized Best Arts Collective and Best Multi-Use Art Space (Baltimore City Paper), EMP has been lauded as one of the boldest “visions to change Baltimore” (Baltimore Magazine).
  • Curator of Pulse, an award-winning performance art series for the development and expansion of performance work in Baltimore.

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