Karen MacDonald
Karen MacDonald is a Boston based actor, director and teacher. Her recent work includes Wipeout (Gloucester Stage), A Christmas Carol, Gaslight, (Merrimack Rep Theatre), Common Ground Revisited (The Huntington), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (SpeakEasy Stage), and Rooted (Lyric Stage).
Karen MacDonald is a Boston based actor, director and teacher. Her recent work includes Wipeout (Gloucester Stage), A Christmas Carol, Gaslight, (Merrimack Rep Theatre), Common Ground Revisited (The Huntington), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (SpeakEasy Stage), and Rooted (Lyric Stage).
Regional appearances include Greater Boston Stage Company, Trinity Rep, Gamm Theatre, Boston Theatre Company, Sleeping Weazel , Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Israeli Stage, The Huntington, SpeakEasy Stage, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, New Rep, Arts Emerson, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Portland Stage, Hartford Stage, and Berkshire Theatre Festival.
A Founding Company Member of the ART, she appeared in 73 productions, including Endgame, The Sea Gull, Mother Courage, Island of Slaves, No Exit, Olly’s Prison, Highway Ulysses, Othello, The Imaginary Invalid, Richard II, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
On Broadway, she understudied and performed the role of Amanda Wingfield in John Tiffany’s production of The Glass Menagerie.
Internationally, she has appeared at festivals in Asti, Avignon, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Israel, the former Yugoslavia, and the Duke of York’s Theatre in London. Nationally she has worked extensively, from Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre to Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Her directing credits include Old Money (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Gidion’s Knot (Bridge Rep); An Ideal Husband, Woman in Black (Gloucester Stage); and Dressed Up! Wigged Out! (Boston Playwrights Theatre).
She appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, playing Titania in a concert version of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and has performed with the Boston Pops, premiering A Soldier’s Carol.
Her teaching credits include Harvard University, for over two decades, where she was a Lecturer in the Theatre, Dance, and Media concentration and an Instructor at the Harvard Extension School. She was the Monin Fellow at Boston College 2010-11. She is a recipient of the TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, in partnership with Merrick Rep Theatre.
Karen is the recipient of several Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards for her performances. Ms. MacDonald received both the Robert Brustein Award for Sustained Achievement in the Theatre and the Eliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.
She is married to sound designer, David Remedios.
She is currently rehearsing Pru Payne, a new play by Steven Drukman, with SpeakEasy Stage, here at the Calderwood.
Karen is delighted to be a collaborator with Nassim Soleimanpour and The Huntington in this performance tonight!
As of October 2024.