Carol Torian is a playwright, fiction writer, visual artist, and gallerist from North Carolina. Productions of her work have included Cracked Grain for Cary Playwrights’ Forum and Ruby Slipper Fringe Festival; The Waning Hours (Staged Reading) for Ruby Slipper Fringe Festival and Sips & Scripts and the Burning Coal New Works Series; The Traditionalists for Cary Playwrights’ Forum and the Women’s Theatre Festival; and Previously Owned for The Flying Embers Winter Pajama Party and the Raleigh Film & Art Festival.

Carol considers herself to be an artivist, and she is committed to using the arts to bring about social change. The term artivist is a blend of the words "art" and "activism. Carol’s work crisscrosses racial, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries to promote understanding, appreciation and awareness. She is a graduate of Meredith College, and the founder of Drinking Gourd Gallery.

In her free time, Carol enjoys painting, baking, reading, and making pottery.