Television includes: The Widowerer, Sherlock, Law and Order, Def 11, Doctors, Emmerdale, Funny Man, Indelible Evidence. Tours include: The Seagull (Jackal Prods) The Relapse and Charley’s Aunt (Cambridge Theatre Co). Theatre includes: The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith (Primavera at Jermyn St Theatre) The While Carnation (Finborough Theatre and Jermyn St Theatre) The Families of Lockerbie, Chicken Soup with Barley (also at the Tricycle) Blithe Spirit and The Importance of being Earnest (Nottingham Playhouse) The Slory of Vasco, Overboard, Summer Again, Macbeth, The Mob, Saint’s Day, Engaged, Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America (Orange Tree Richmond) Pythagoras (Birmingham Rep) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet, The Norman Conquests, Treats, The Atheist’s Tragedy and What the Butler Saw (Belgrade Theatre Coventry) Death in Leicester, Bond’s Lear and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Liverpool Everyman) The Clandestine Marriage, Love in a Maze and Hobson’s Choice (Watermill Theatre) Death of a Salesman (Guildford and the Hong Kong Arts Festival) Having a Lovely Time, All Together Now and The Game Hunter (Scarborough Theatre in the Round) Pravda, Comedy of Errors, The Black Prince, Habeas Corpus, Racing Demon, Rattle of a Simple Man, The Three Sisters, On Approval, Pickwick Papers, Merry Wives of Windsor, Neville ‘s Island, Twelfth Night and The Elephant Man (Wolsey Theatre Ipswich) The Bacchae and Blood Wedding (Royal Theatre Northampton).

Her radio credits include: Dorine in Tartuffe and Miranda in The Tempest, with the late Sir John Gielgud. Karen is also a well-established voice-over artist and radio actor. Recent television work includes: Cuckoo, W1A (BBC) Obsession: Dark Desires (October films) Emmerdale, Peep Show, The Taking of Prince Harry, Casualty, Doctors, Trinity, The Bill, Eastenders, The Armando Iannucci Shows.įilm: Paper Mask, Loaf, Splitting Hairs. Other favourite theatre includes: Footloose (UK tour) Adam Bede, The Case Of Rebellious Susan (Orange Tree) Perfect Days, Extremities (Derby) Loot, Glass Menagerie (Worcester) How The Other Half Loves, Season’s Greetings (Sonning).

Rochester (Lyric Hammersmith, Tricycle, UK and International Tours) Ivanov, Much Ado About Nothing (Strand Theatre) A Shayna Maidel (Ambassadors) Three Viewings (New End) the jazz-theatre piece Out There (Riverside Studios). Darling in Peter Pan (Kensington Gardens) Artefacts (Bush Theatre and Off Broadway) The Years Between (Orange Tree) The Letter (Wyndhams) for Shared Experience, Anna Karenina, After Mrs. Radfern in Priestley’s Laburnum Grove (Finborough) Mrs. Most recently Karen played Rebecca in Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes and Jackie in new show Jackie the Musical (set to tour UK in 2015). Karen trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the Carleton Hobbs Award.

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