Carr says that when he was in the first grade, a guest artist came to his school to stage their holiday play, The Fir Tree. His mother tells him that he came offstage after the first performance and said he wanted to do that for the rest of his life.

Carr is a member of the Actors Equity Association and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He graduated from Hartwick Summa Cum Laude in Music and Theatre Arts. He was a John Christopher Hartwick Scholar and MFA.

“I co-founded Sustainable Saratoga, now a fully independent 501c3 organization dedicated to deploying education and advocacy initiatives to take action on natural resources protection and the establishment of sustainable practice. As Mayor, my administration secured “$3.5M in federal and state grants toward creating the Saratoga Greenbelt Trail, a 24-mile recreational trail network, which is contributing to making the city more pedestrian and bike friendly.”