Karen Kessler

Karen Kessler

Professor of Theatre

Directing

Phone:765-285-8745

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Room:WQ 105

Karen Kessler (she/her) teaches directing and Shakespeare for Ball State’s Department of Theatre and Dance. She is a proud ensemble member of Chicago’s iconoclastic, cutting-edge A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago (www.aredorchidtheatre.org) where she has directed The Nether, and Brett Neveu’s The Opponent (both in Chicago for its world premiere and Off-Broadway in New York at the 59E59 Theatre) amongst other shows. Karen has extensive experience in working in partnerships with playwrights on developing new plays. She also has extensive experience directing Shakespeare in venues across the country with productions of Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure being some of her favorite productions. While directing is her happy place, she has most recently been working on trying her hand at writing, having had a few short plays picked up for 10-minute play festivals.

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Teaching Areas: Directing, Shakespeare

Full Professor

Date of Hire: August 2003