Quetta Carpenter is originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, and holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Penn State University, and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Theatre and Dance from Southern Utah University. She appears in four feature films, Sweet Sixteen, Schizcago, Happily After and South Loop, as well as several short films, commercials and web series.
She has acted on stage with Utah Shakespeare Festival (A Flea in Her Ear, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Our Town, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens, and The Costume Cavalcade), Seacoast Repertory (Rabbit Hole), ShawChicago (world premiere of Cashel Byron's Profession), Purple Rose Theatre (world premiere of Vino Veritas), Chicago Dramatists (Instant Theatre, If You Split a Second, The Fantastical, Magical Life of Mary McMueller), Pennsylvania Centre Stage (Cloud Nine, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Proof, Loves and Hours, Baby, and the staged reading of Propaganda by Matt Toronto), New Paltz Repertory (Proof), Southwest Shakespeare Company (As You Like it, Cardenio, Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost), Shakespeare Sedona (Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost, Cardenio), Expanded Arts, (The Winter's Tale) Nearly Naked Theatre (Torch Song Trilogy, Gilgamesh), Actor's Renaissance (Sense and Sensibility, Macbeth, As You Like it), JeRM (The Threepenny Opera), Childsplay (the world premiere and touring production of The Imaginators), Off-Broadway Theatre (Lend Me a Tenor), and Phoenix Theatre Cookie Company (The Three Bears). Quetta has done choreography for several musical theatre productions, served as Dance Captain for The Utah Shakespeare Festival, and designed/crafted costumes and millinery for Actor's Renaissance Theatre, Southwest Shakespeare and Shakespeare Sedona, as well as wardrobe supervision for Actors Theatre, The Utah Shakespeare Festival Costume Cavalcade and Southwest Shakespeare.
Quetta began teaching at Penn State University, and has been at Act One Studios, a professional acting school in Chicago for the past four years. She has taught workshops for Utah Shakespeare Festival, STEP, and Childsplay. She teaches movement, acting and audition technique at UT
Quetta founded and serves as producer for Plenty Humble, (Diary of a Job Seeker) and has also worked as a freelance journalist.
