Carlotta grew up in North Dakota in the tiny town of New England, as one of nine children. One four-block main street, one stop sign. Five bars. Three churches.
She had never seen a play before she acted in her first play as a junior in high school, a one-act drama playing the lead, which ended up winning first place at the State Speech competition.
The first professional play she saw was while working a summer job in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to help pay for her first year at drama school.
Never saw a movie in an indoor movie theatre until she was 17 years old. It was "West Side Story" with Natalie Wood (and she wailed out loud when Tony was killed).
At age 14, she played the church organ at daily Catholic mass and sang in the choir.
Near death experience at age 12 when she contracted pneumonia and had emergency surgery to remove her appendix, and while in the hospital recovering, contracted rheumatic fever.
For over 20 years, Carlotta worked for Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles learning the movie business from the inside, working in the Treasury Department/Production Financing and in Distribution.
Ms. Schoch lives in New York City with her husband, the actor Vasili Bogazianos.
