Karen Sheridan

Karen's been an actor, director and teacher in Michigan, Chicago and beyond. She has worked with the exceptional Williamston Theatre playing Betty in Chapatti, Sarah Bernhardt in Memoir, Williamina Fleming in Silent Sky, Hannah in The Safe House, various radicals in 900 Miles to International Falls, and Aunt Esther in The Hat Box. Other Michigan credits: ‘Rain on Fire and Ragtime (Flint Rep), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Detroit Public); Boeing Boeing, Dancing at Lughnasa and Angels in America: Part I (Meadow Brook); Lost in Yonkers (Michigan Stage), Love Letters with husband Sam Pollak (Two Muses), Brighton Beach Memoirs and select performances of Other Desert Cities (JET). Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help marks Karen's Williamston directing debut. Other favorite directing includes Grand Horizons (Tipping Point), The Tempest (Fenton Shakespeare), The 39 Steps and others (Peninsula Players), Mary's Wedding (AM Productions), Italian American Reconciliation (Epicenter) and many productions at Oakland University where she has been a distinguished professor of theatre. Karen is a proud Equity member, happy to have taught at both her alma maters, Loyola and DePaul Universities in Chicago, and at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.