Karen Kohlhaas is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company where she most recently directed the world premiere of Annie Baker’s Body Awareness. Other credits include Clare Bayley’s At Sea for Cambridge U.K.’s Menagerie Theatre; 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Kate Moira Ryan (with Judy Gold) at the Montreal Comedy Festival, Ars Nova, Off-Broadway at the St. Luke’s Theatre and on national tour. Other Off-Broadway and regional productions include Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse (Atlantic); Keith Reddin’s Synergy (Alley Theatre, world premiere) and Frame 312 (Atlantic, New York premiere); David Mamet’s Boston Marriage (The Public Theater, New York premiere) and The Water Engine (Atlantic); three productions of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein in New York and Sydney; Kate Moira Ryan’s OTMA (U.S. premiere); short plays by Jerome Hairston (Naked Angels), Hilary Bell (Atlantic), Joe Penhall (Atlantic), Wendy MacLeod (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and Jeff Whitty (Atlantic). Her short films include The Palace of the End and If You See Something Say Something with playwright/performer Taylor Mac; and the award-winning short documentary The Babies Got the Blues (co-directed with Rachel Hamilton); and have been featured at the Silverlake, Galway, Crossroads, Tupelo and Lincoln Center’s Drag Show Video Vérité film festivals. Karen is a senior teacher at the Atlantic Acting School and teaches her own classes in directing, monologue and audition technique. She has authored/created three books and a DVD for actors and teachers. www.monologueaudition.com
