Karen Berman

Karen Berman

Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Washington Women in Theatre

Karen Berman has directed over 200 plays and musicals at locations from the Smithsonian to off-Broadway. As co-founder and co-artistic director of Washington Women in Theatre she has directed and produced numerous new plays for WWIT including Astra, Uncle Julie, and On the Road to Havana, among others. She is past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a dean emerita of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. She received the Georgia Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2017. After teaching at Georgetown University for 15 years she was chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Georgia College (GC) for 12 years. She directed and co-wrote four original plays about Czech heroes that WWIT co-produced with GC students performed in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016 in Prague and at an international theatre festival in the Czech Republic. She is currently co-editing a two-volume book entitled Stories of the Holocaust Onstage and In Concert: Art for Healing and Renewal (Volume One) and Stories of the Holocaust On Screen and In the Gallery: Art for Healing and Renewal (Volume II).