About
Carol (CJ) Verburg is a San Francisco-based writer and director. After working as an academic editor on projects from Powers of Ten (Scientific American Library) to Ghosts in the Mind's Machine (Norton), she authored the international literature series Ourselves Among Others (Bedford/St. Martins), learned boat-building, helped found the Provincetown Playwrights' Lab, and headed three Cape Cod theater companies. She instigated and produced most of Edward Gorey's original stage "entertainments" on the Cape, where she also adapted Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle and directed Peter Shaffer's The Gift of the Gorgon (with their permission). Her long friendship with Gorey inspired her anagrammatic Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery series, Croaked, Zapped, and Shafted; her award-winning play Spin, or Twilight of the Bohemians; and her richly illustrated 2024 homage The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey (Chronicle). Current favorite projects include her Holmes-Watson “Scandal at the Savoy” stories and a historical suspense series, After the Gold Rush. https://carolverburg.com
Featured Work
The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories
The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey chronicles this little-known side of a uniquely brilliant, inventive, and influential artist. Curated by his comrade-in-arts Carol Verburg and the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, this lavish volume combines front-line reporting with newly released visual treasures from the Gorey Archive. For the first time, his fans, collectors, fellow thespians, and anyone who loves the theater can discover Gorey’s extraordinary theatrical artwork — colorful sets and costumes for The Mikado, giant hand-painted urns, intricate lithographs, storyboard sketches — along with a sampler of scripts ranging from a pastiche of Nancy Drew in limericks to an opera libretto for hand puppets to a Christmas homage to Agatha Christie.
