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Karen Kessler
Karen is extremely proud to be a new ensemble member of
A Red Orchid Theatre where she has directed the U.S. premiere
of Gagarin Way (a play that won an After Dark award
for Outstanding Ensemble) and the Midwest premieres of Sarah
Kane’s Blasted and David Gieselmann's Mr.
Kolpert.
Karen is past artistic director of the gone but not forgotten
Famous Door Theatre where she directed the world premiere
of Early and Often, the world premiere of A
Mislaid Heaven (which won a Jeff Award for Best New
Work), the U.S. premiere of A Going Concern (which
won an After Dark Award for Outstanding Direction), as well
as productions of This Lime Tree Bower and Remembrance.
Other recent Chicago credits include: the U.S. premiere
of Roddy Doyle's War at Seanachai Theatre Company;
the Midwest premiere of Sam Shepard’s The God
of Hell at the Next Theatre in Evanston; a staged reading
of Susan Nussbaum’s Crippled Sisters for
Goodman Theatre’s New Play Series; The Trestle
at Pope Lick Creek, Wrens (a play that won
a Jeff Award for Best New Work), Hamlet and Cyrano
de Bergerac for Rivendell Theatre Ensemble –
a company which Karen co-founded; and the Midwest premiere
of Steve Martin’s The Underpants for Noble
Fool Theatricals.
Credits outside of Chicago include: Glengarry Glen
Ross for the Northern Stage Ensemble in Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England; Measure for Measure for Connecticut Repertory
Theatre; Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and All’s
Well That Ends Well at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival;
and The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Complete
History of America (Abridged) for Idaho Repertory Theatre.
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