More on Roz and Ray
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A gripping medical drama about intimacy, trust, and sacrifice at the onset of the AIDS crisis. Ray is a devoted single father desperately trying to keep his hemophiliac twins alive. Roz is a brilliant doctor who offers a cutting-edge miracle treatment for Ray’s boys. The two form an intimate bond until the miracle goes wrong, forcing impossible choices.
"Powerful. Moves fast and is unafraid of the political force of this intensely committed writing. Exceptionally complex and moving pieces of acting."
​-Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune ​ | Read More Press
Cast: 1W 1M

​Awards:  Edgerton Foundation New Play Prize, McKnight New Play Residency & Commission, 2016 Kilroys List
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Productions: 
Seattle Repertory Theater 2016
Victory Gardens 2016
San Diego Repertory 2017, Theater J 2018
More on Project Dawn
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Philadelphia is home to a revolutionary – and shockingly funny - treatment court for prostitute women. In Project Dawn, seven actresses double as a staff members and court participants, probing the thin lines between freedom and slavery, activism and obsession, on both sides of the law.
“An artistic achievement that lights a way forward to a more empathetic justice system."
-Delaware County News Review | Read More Press
Cast: 7 or 8W

​Awards:  NEA Art Works Grant, New Play Frontiers Residency, 2017-18 National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
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Productions: 
Peoples Light 2017
Horizon Theater 2017, Unicorn Theater 2018
Featured in American Theatre Magazine 
Read Karen's words about the process in Howlround
More on The Lucky Star (formerly The Book of Joseph)
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Every family has its secrets. Richard Hollander’s remained in an unopened suitcase for fifteen years. The Book of Joseph maps the primal need to understand those who came before. 

"You may lose count of the number of times a chill runs down your spine."
​-Time Out Chicago. | Read More Press 
Cast: 5-6 W, 4M
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Productions: 
Chicago Shakespeare Theater 2017
Everyman Theatre 2018
SuperTrue
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On the porch of an almost-charming cabin in the Catskills, an interacial couple reckons with the moment when Plan A slips away but Plan B has not emerged. In other words, they're turning forty. How will they forge a new truth?
Cast: 1W 1M 1 Puppet
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​Produced: Know Theater, Cincinnati 2018

Awards: 2015 Kilroy's List
 
Going Gone
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An intimate epic, Going Gone follows the phenomenon of the author’s grandfather Harry Hartman, an unathletic Jewish immigrant who, as the first radio baseball announcer for the Cincinnati Reds, coined the phrase “Going, Going Gone.”  ​
Cast: 2W 3M

Produced:
Cincinnati Playhouse 2004
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Winner: NEA Special Project Grant
Gaza Rehearsal
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A play within a play, a tragedy inside a comedy. A group of faculty and students at a large public university stage a little-known political drama, Goliath. The writer of that political drama is on faculty, directing her own play, desperate to “spark dialogue.” And she does.
Cast: 3W 2M

Workshop: ​Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, 2016
Goliath
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On a single tense day during the 2005 Israeli pullout from Gaza, an American settler, her teenage zealot son, their Palestinian employee, an Israeli Army commander, and a young Ethiopian soldier face off over ideal, economics, and home. In the contemporary Middle East, who is David and who is Goliath? ​
Cast: 3W 2M

Commissioned: National Foundation for Jewish Culture with McCarter Theater

Award: Dorothy Silver New Play Prize
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​Workshop Production: Open Fist Theater (Los Angeles) 2009