A Theatre in Community Podcast: a Conversation with Karen Evans

Today, we present another Theatre in Community podcast, our conversation with playwright and theatre entrepreneur Karen L. B. Evans.

Karen is a playwright and educator. She is President and Founder of the Black Women Playwrights’ Group and CEO of StarRoute19, an educational software company.

Her current project is 12@12 noon and 12 Line Wonder, its educational counterpart, both private SMS (aka text messages) that deliver 12-line dramatic scenes to your mobile home or tablet. She's also a tech entrepreneur and seasoned non-profit and operations manager. Karen has received individual fellowships in playwriting from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

She was a Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding New Play, as well as a Sundance Institute finalist. She has participated in the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Karen is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy Center's Front and Center Award. She is also a recipient of a fellowship from the Weisberg Foundation to attend a playwriting seminar at New York's primary stages. She holds a BA with honors in drama from Dartmouth College and an MFA in playwriting from the Catholic University of America.

For more information about Karen, click here and here.

Glossary

• Hair

• Walter Kerr and Jean Kerr

• Susan Sarandon

• Leo Brady

• Yankee Doodle Dandy

• Father Hartke

• DC Black Rep

• My Girlish Days

• MetroStage

• Carolyne Griffin

• Dan Covey

• Jane Lang

• Greta

• Lynn Nottage

• Suzan-Lorie Parks

• Mary Stone Hanley

• for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

• Lynnie Raybuck and Smallbeer Theater Company

• Theatre Communications Group

• Elizabeth Van Dyke

• Sharon Bridgeforth

• Shay Youngblood

• Joseph Melillio of BAM

• Christopher Diaz

• Karen Zacarías

• Young Playwrights’ Theatre

• GALA Hispanic Theater

• African Continuum Theatre Company

• Regina Taylor

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