Karen MacDonald*

Actor/Director

Karen MacDonald* – CSC: Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Universe Rushing Apart: Blue Kettle and Here We Go, Old Money (Director). Recent local performances: Concert Theatre Works: The Soldier’s Tale at Symphony Hall. Merrimack Rep Theatre: Misery, A Christmas Carol, Gaslight, At Wit’s End. Speakeasy Stage: Pru Payne, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, The Children. Lyric Stage: Rooted, The Cake. Huntington Theater: Nassim, Common Ground Revisited. Founding Company Member, American Repertory Theatre: 73 productions, including Endgame, The Sea Gull, Mother Courage and Her Children. Broadway: The Glass Menagerie (understudied and performed) Amanda Wingfield. Extensive national and international credits. Lecturer at Harvard University, taught Acting to Undergrads and Extension School for 22 Years. Awards: Robert Brustein Prize for Sustained Achievement, Eliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.

Productions at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
Production Role
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Quince
Measure for Measure
Escalus
Shakespeare On the Common: Encores
Volumnia/ Coriolanus
Universe Rushing Apart: Blue Kettle and Here We Go
Mrs. Plant/ Mrs. Vane/ Ensemble
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
Ensemble
Old Money
Director

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