Karin's photos have been published in American Theatre magazine and on the covers of Irish Dance magazine and Luxury Travel Advisor. In addition to her freelance work, she has served as staff photographer for The Lark Play Development Center, The Dance Gallery NY, and The Golding Academy of Movement and Dance. At the League of Professional Theatre Women, she had the privilege of photographing such theater luminaries as Graciela Daniele and Michael John La Chiusa. Her passion and knack for rehearsal and production photography have been greatly informed by her theater background.
In addition to being a photographer, Karin is also a writer, director, producer, and podcaster. Her play The Horse and Carriage (Helen Hayes Awards Recommended world premiere at Prologue Theatre) was recently selected as a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival and a finalist at the Mystic Film Festival. It also won Primary Stages’ ESPA Drills and was rewarded with a fully staged reading directed by Daniel Goldstein (Godspell, Broadway) and starring Jennifer Mudge (Somebody, Somewhere; The Irishman) and Chris Coffey (And Just Like That; American Horror Story). Her short film To Make Chickens Laugh recently celebrated its world premiere at the Mystic Film Festival.
As a director, Karin was a finalist for both the Goodman Theatre's Michael Maggio Directing Fellowship and the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. Additionally, she is a co-founder and former Artistic Director of DirectorsLabChicago. Modeled after the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, the Chicago Lab brings together directors from around the world for workshops, technique sharing, mixing, and mingling. Guest artists have included Anne Cattaneo (Dramaturg, Lincoln Center Theater/Julliard), Martha Lavey (AD, Steppenwolf), Gary Griffin (The Color Purple, Broadway), and Robert Falls (AD, Goodman Theatre).
Additionally, she was an artist mentor for Steppenwolf's Crosstown Ensemble, directing teens in the creation of their own show; and she taught improv and writing at Players Workshop in courses that culminated in the creation of an original student-crafted performance. Other projects include Drew Dir’s The Lurker Radio Hour (Sketchbook 8 @Steppenwolf; Winner Best Production, Best Actor, Best Actress); several guerilla-style candlelit productions of Shakespeare in Lincoln Park; and producing a week-long workshop of The Grouch (Mark Hollman, Urinetown).
Her old-timey serial fiction podcast, The Lesbian Hobo Adventure Hour (Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival) is currently on the air; and she is one half of the podcasting team of Shook & Fitz: Inspired by the egregiously innocuous front porch conversations of two neighbors, this podcast explores hard hitting topics such as “Pie” and “Australia” in palatable, ten-minute segments.
She has served on the Litwing and Playwrights’ Week Steering Committee at the Lark Play Development Center and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity, SAG-AFTRA, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and the Dramatists Guild.