Karen Sabo

Biography

Karen Sabo is a director, actor, writer, and dialect coach. She belongs to SDC and VASTA, and is a 28-year member of AEA. Karen was a resident actor at three different theatres, including the LORT Barter Theatre where she was also a resident director. Originally from upstate New York, she has lived in nine different states in three time zones. She and her husband founded In/Visible Theatre of Boone, NC, which developed new plays produced nationally. Her non-theatrical interests are yoga, fitness, food and culture, cooking, film, and petting other people's dogs. She is married to writer/theatre artist Derek Davidson and is the mother of director/actor Rachel Sabo-Hedges. www.karensabo.com

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Education

• BA in Liberal Arts, Hampshire College
• MA in Liberal Studies, East Tennessee State University
• MFA in Theatre Directing, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Teaching

• Directing I
• Directing II
• Tools for the Actor
• Acting IV

Professional experience

• 25-year member of Actors' Equity Association
• Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers
• Member of VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association)
• Work at Clarence Brown Theatre, Pioneer Playhouse, Kentucky Rep, Stage One, New Victory Theatre, Barter Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, and others.
• Acting training from the American Conservatory Theatre, SITI, Shakespeare & Co, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Larry Silverberg's Meisner Technique.

Research and professional interests

• Semiotics and Directing
• Public Works Theatre
• Verbatim Plays
• Health and Nutrition for Performers
• Theatre and Democracy

Awards and honors