Carol Symes

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Carol Symes (born 1966) is an American medieval historian and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She founded the Education Justice Project's Theatre Initiative and directed Shakespeare's The Tempest at Danville Correctional Center in 2013. She is the executive editor of The Medieval Globe.

Symes studied at Yale University (BA), earned an M.Litt from Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Harvard. She has a Certificate in Stage Combat from the Society of British Fight Directors (earned while training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School) and is a member of Actors’ Equity. She has also acted in Our Play at Danville in 2012 and directed The Tempest there in 2013.