KAREN HARTMAN

Karen Hartman’s work includes Going Gone (world premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 2004); Motherbone, an opera composed by Grahm Reynolds (Loewe Award for New Music Theater, Salvage Vanguard Theater); Gum (produced by Women’s Project & Productions, Center Stage, Magic Theater, P73 Productions); Girl Under Grain (Best Drama in New York Fringe, Drama League, P73 Productions); Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl (from Lewis Carroll, music by Gina Leishman – AT&T Onstage Award, Dallas Theater Center); Leah’s Train (workshop at Long Wharf Theatre); and Blessings and Curses (San Diego’s Tommy Award for Dance and Patte Award for Theater, with Malashock Dance). Her plays have been produced by more than 40 companies and have received developmental support from A.S.K. Theater Projects, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and South Coast Repertory. She is the recipient of the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award and a former Hodder Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow and writer-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre (London).