- Playwright/Screenwriter Karen Sunde began as an actor. Off-Broadway she performed dozens of leading roles, and became Associate Director of CSC Repertory before starting to write. Her plays have been performed Off-Broadway, in regional theatres, on a USA tour, and in eleven countries and seven languages. Twelve of her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing and Dramatic Publishing.
- As screenwriter: Sunde's won the Gold Prize from Hollywood Screenwriting Contest for her IN A KINGDOM BY THE SEA; her HOW HIS BRIDE CAME TO ABRAHAM and THE SECRET SHIP are “Official Selections” at the Oaxaca Film Festival. UNDERCOVER PATRIOT was finalist at Sundance. She's written PARALLEL LOVES for Terra Bella Entertainment, Los Angeles; DREAM HOUSE for Passport Films, NY, and THE FASTEST WOMAN ALIVE for Howard S Shulman Productions, NY. IN A KINGDOM BY THE SEA, THE FASTEST WOMAN ALIVE and HOW HIS BRIDE CAME TO ABRAHAM (www.AbrahamFilm.org) are adaptations of her published plays.
- Among Sunde’s published plays are DARK LADY, produced Abbey Theatre, Ireland, Aalborg State Theatre, Denmark; BALLOON won three VILLAGER awards Off-Broadway, nominated Best Play by Outer Critics Circle, aired in French on Radio France; TO MOSCOW, premiered Ankara National Theatre, Turkey; www.ToMoscowThePlay.com. HAITI: A DREAM in FACING FORWARD, produced Seven Stages, Atlanta, adapted and aired on WNYC, WHYY, NPR; HOW HIS BRIDE CAME TO ABRAHAM, produced Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey (now WTNJ), Praxis Theatre Project, NYC, and premiered (post NNPN Showcase) at the Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City. ANTON, HIMSELF for Actors Theatre of Louisville, also played The Moscow Art Theatre and the Yalta Festival in Russia. THE FASTEST WOMAN ALIVE produced Luna Stage, NJ, Praxis, NYC, and the Edinburgh Festival. KABUKI LADY MACBETH produced Chicago Shakespeare Theater, cited for five JEFF Awards, including "Best New Work.” Her ACHILLES, for the People’s Light & Theatre, premiered at ancient Kourion amphi-theatre on Cyprus and toured Hungary and Japan. She co-wrote the musical QUASIMODO!, premiered Byrdcliffe Festival, Woodstock, NY, produced by Lahti City Theatre, Finland. A Zoom-Video of BABES IN BOY-LAND has been produced (contact Sunde)
- Sunde’s won a McKnight Fellowship, an NDEA Fellowship, the Aide de la Creation award in France, the Bob Hope Award, a Gold Prize from Hollywood Screenplay Contest. She served on the theatre panel of New Jersey Council on the Arts, and the new plays panel of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, was La MaMa ETC (New York)'s nominee for the Laura Pels/PEN award, adapted UNSPINNING THE SPIN for Women’s Media Center, and has been faculty at New Hampshire Institute of Art's "Writing for Stage and Screen" MFA program.
- Karen is a member of Authors Guild. Beyond published playbooks, her ebooks and collections are on Smashwords.com She lives in New York City. www.karensunde.com