Karen Kohlhaasis a theater director, teacher, author, filmmaker, and Tennessee Williams scholar. Director: Karen is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, where her credits include mainstage and Atlantic Stage 2 productions by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Annie Baker, Keith Reddin, Shel Silverstein and Kate Moira Ryan, and shorts by Hilary Bell, Joe Penhall, Kia Corthron, and many others. She has also directed for the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater; Naked Angels; Ensemble Studio Theatre; New York Live Arts; 24 Hour Plays on Broadway; the Alley Theatre, Houston; New Dramatists; the Menagerie Theatre in Cambridge, UK; The Culture Project; Practical Theater Co., Sydney; Theatre Oxford; and others. Teacher: Karen is a master teacher of Practical Aesthetics acting technique with over 35 years in the classroom, and is a senior teacher at Atlantic Acting School. She teaches her own online and in person classes in Monologues, Fearless Cold Reading; Throughline Script Analysis, and Directing. She holds annual residential scene study (January) and monologue audition trainings (August) for actors and teachers in Tennessee Williams’s Mississippi Delta (www.art-and-audition.com). She has taught guest workshops around the US and internationally, including USC; Drama, Inc., Atlanta; Austin Shakespeare; University of Houston’s MFA in Theater Education; Florida International University; Theater Educators of Texas Association; Oklahoma City University; University of Central Oklahoma; Colorado College; Seattle University; Baldwin Wallace University; the University of the South at Sewanee; Rose Bruford College, UK; and others. Author: Karen’s books include The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors (recommended by Helen Mirren in her Master Class on acting and a Backstage Must-Read); How to Choose a Monologue for Any Audition; and The Monologue Audition Teacher’s Manual. Filmmaker: Karen’s short films include two with acclaimed performer/playwright Taylor Mac, several short documentaries, and she is currently finishing a documentary series about Tennessee Williams in the Mississippi Delta. (TennWmsDelta.com). Tennessee Williams Scholar: Karen is the founder and curator of the Tennessee Williams Rectory Museum in the former Clarksdale, Mississippi rectory rooms once occupied by Williams and his family (TennesseeWilliamsRectoryMuseum.com). She has been a presenter and panelist at the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival (https://tennesseewilliams.net) and the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival (https://DeltaWilliamsFestival.com).