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Carolan Trbovich

Carolan Trbovich

Carolan Trbovich is an innovator who used corporate savvy and her considerable creativity to blaze new trails in entertainment industry operations for two powerhouse music companies, Word Entertainment of Warner Brothers Records and Sparrow Records of EMI Music Group. 

Carolan studied at UCLA, The Film Actors’ Workshop, The Hollywood Film Institute, and The American Film Institute where she received extensive professional training in various areas of entertainment operations in theater, film, and music business development. Trbovich has numerous board memberships/affiliations including, the American Marketing Association, National Public Relations Committee Board, The Gospel Music Association, The Country Music Association, The Recording Academy, The Country Connection NYC, the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, The National Association of Record Merchandisers, American Theatre Critics Association and the United States Press Agency.
    
Ms. Trbovich has made great strides in increasing productivity and profitability for many clients through inspired marketing and creating trend-setting new standards of operation. Her efforts have made Trbovich a popular speaker at retail trade and arts conventions nationwide. Carolan is the Broadway correspondent, writing reviews and interviews for Nashville's Dish Magazine, and has published articles in various business journals, entertainment blogs, and magazines. 
    
Carolan has impacted the entertainment, education and performing arts industries with groundbreaking new ideas in business operations, media management, and community outreach. From her love of the Arts, she has pioneered MasterClass Guild, Conservatory of the Arts, designed for creative arts students to study with artists and industry professionals. Out of her passion for all things Broadway, Carolan created the first Broadway cabaret in the state of Tennessee, Absinthe, A Broadway Cabaret, bringing Broadway performers and cabaret artists to perform standards from The Great American Songbook repertoire of classics by such beloved composers as Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gershwin, Berlin, and Cole Porter. 

Raised on the Ohio River, in the picturesque pottery town of East Liverpool, Carolan’s upbringing was colored by a rich and diverse heritage. “My mother was Italian and my father was Serbian”, she explains. “They were proud Americans and taught my brothers and me about our European heritage. They also taught us to be passionate in all we do.” That passion can be clearly seen in Trbovich’s life and career, which she approaches with great enthusiasm. Carolan is thrilled to return to Nashville after 7 years of writing for BroadwayWorld Sarasota and affirms, "The Nashville area has so much unparalleled talent and the finest venues for all types of staging. It's an honor and a blessing for me to be "back home" and reporting on all things entertainment in Music City".
 




LEARN MORE ABOUT Carolan Trbovich

First Show:

Man of La Mancha

Favorite Show:

Wicked

Favorite Stories:

  • Oivia Newton-John Meet & Grease, Interview & Book Review - This was one of the longest pieces I have ever written, where I combined a review of a show, a celebrity interview, and a review of a book the celebrity had written. Readers told me it took them down Memory Lane with fond glances back at Olivia's illustrious career. In working on several past projects with Olivia, this article was a tribute to her and a culmination of her influence on my life career and career. This was the most emotional article I have written and it would be the last time I got to see Olivia before she passed away.


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