Adjunct Professor

Karen Berman holds an M.F.A. in Directing from Catholic University. She teaches Acting I and ll and Improvisation for Social Change among other courses, and completed her eighth year as Artistic Advisor to Georgetown student performance groups. As Director of SourceCast Karen cast some 400 Washington area actors in commercials, industrials and films, and has served as Associate Producer at Source Theatre for over eight years. Karen also collaborated with David Young on the book How to Direct a Musical: Broadway Your Way, published by Routledge. Karen serves as Vice President for Advocacy for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She has directed over fifty productions for venues ranging from the Smithsonian to off-Broadway. Her off-Broadway credits include, at the American Theatre of Actors, Ziggy and Ballet Russes, which starred Twyla Tharp Company member Petter Jacobsson. In the Washington area she has directed productions for Source Theater, American University, Catholic University, and JeRM Productions, as well as videos of original plays for Time Warner Television.