An Irish-born potential triple threat, Carol Doyle moved to the USA in the late 1980s to pursue a career as an actress. After working in theater and TV commercials, she augmented her creativity by writing scripts. Doyle landed deals with production companies in her native land to script "Dance With the Divil", an Irish political story, and "Comfort Zone", which would mark her directorial debut. Her first produced script, however, was for the elegant adaptation of the Henry James novella "Washington Square" (1997). While the material had served as the basis of a hit play and film ("The
