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. 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 plays include The Horse and Carriage (winner, Primary Stages *ESPA Drills, dir. Daniel Goldstein; Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival; sold-out staged reading @ NextStop Theatre), Colored Scribbles (winner, NC One-Act Play Competition), The Method(winner, Emerging Artists Project Chicago), Seedlings (NY Madness @EST; Seoul Players @Seoul, Korea), How to Play the Triangle (developed at The Lark Play Development Center), and adaptations/translations of Moliere, Chekhov, and Aristophanes. She is currently in post-production for her short film, Windows.
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.
Karin was founder and Artistic Director of Tripaway Theatre in Chicago, where productions included her adaptation of Aristophanes' 2500 year-old anti-war play The Acharnians: One Man’s Private Peace During the Compassionately Conservative Bombing Campaign on Canada, the Adventures that Befell Him Thereafter, and What Jesus and The Tooth Fairy Had to Say About it All (“Blithely offensive and wildly imaginative...the funniest mix of satire, insanity, and intelligence this side of the Beltway.” New City, Tip of the Week; with successful runs at Bailiwick Chicago and the Minneapolis and Thunder Bay Fringe Festivals); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Critic's Choice, Chicago Reader); and the ensemble-created Commedia Divino e Profano; or, Scourge of the Doom Pies! (“... as decisive a statement of the continued relevance of commedia dell'arte as can be imagined: a grand epiphany” Chicago Reader). 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).
In addition, Karin was co-founder and 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). Karin was a finalist for both the Goodman Theatre's Michael Maggio Directing Fellowship and the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. She is a member of Actors’ Equity, SAG-AFTRA, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and the Dramatists Guild.