Nia Bowers
Photo courtesy of John de Amara
Carolina Buhck walked into the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute by way of a graduate business program in Amsterdam. That sequence — a Master of Science in Business Administration from the University of Amsterdam, then a conservatory program in screen and stage acting on West 15th Street — set the tone for almost everything she has done in New York since.
She arrived from Europe already fluent in German, Dutch, and Spanish, bringing a multilingual perspective that has become one of her greatest assets as an actress and storyteller. She trained in front of cameras and on stages, then started taking roles in both. Last year, she co-produced and acted in the Off-Broadway run of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, a credit that put her into one of the hardest rooms in American theatre as both a performer and one of the people responsible for getting the show up.
That double credit answers a question casting directors quietly ask about every European import: Is this person going to wait around? Buhck’s answer, on the record, is no.
“Alongside acting,” she said, “I am developing original projects as a producer and writer in New York, creating opportunities rather than waiting for them.”
Stacking The Credits, Not Just Collecting Them
The Off-Broadway run sits alongside a recurring role in an upcoming Dutch television series, a lead in an American independent feature heading for Amazon Prime, and a lead performance in the David Guetta music video Kill the Vibe. Four formats, three markets, two years.
Strasberg trained her on the screen and stage fundamentals. The dance and movement background she brought in with her gives her a non-verbal layer most actors do not have — useful in music video work, useful in any action- and stunt-driven story, useful in any director’s room where the script needs help. Her process leans on the Chubbuck Technique for objectives and stakes, with additional work under Chris Holder. She does not evangelize about any of it. The techniques are tools; the role is the job.
Red Door, And The Case For Staying
Buhck is a co-founder of Red Door Productions, a five-founder, female-led production company built in New York to put up plays, films, and short work that the founders want to make and act in. Five Women Wearing the Same Dress came out of that orbit. So does the short play she has co-written, which has been selected for a New York short play festival this summer, and the short film she co-wrote and stars in, which is heading for the festival circuit after.
None of this is positioned as a pivot. “I mainly produce because I want to act,” she said. She is not an actress trying to become a producer. She is an actress who has noticed that the people working most consistently in New York are usually the ones generating their own material, and has decided to be one of them.
New York rewards that posture. It rewards artists who show up with a script, a cast, a venue, and a plan, and it tends to remember them the next time a casting call lands in their lane. Buhck has been showing up that way for two years now, building a body of credits across film, television, and theatre, and a company that produces them.
What she calls a “lasting place” in the city is taking shape through a growing body of work that reflects both intention and momentum.