AEA / SAG-AFTRA
917.488.9810
karenwight@gmail.com
www.kareneleanorwight.com
OFF-WEST END / OFF-BROADWAY / NATIONAL TOURS
The Screwtape Letters Off-West End
Toadpipe [Originated] +9 character roles
Park Theatre (w/ Max McLean)
The Screwtape Letters Off-Broadway
Toadpipe [Originated] +9 character roles
Pearl Theatre (w/ Brent Harris)
Westside Theatre (w/ Max McLean)
The Screwtape Letters National Tour
Toadpipe +9 character roles
Shakespeare Theatre, DC etc
Peter Pan National Tour
Tiger Lily/Liza (u/s Peter Pan & Wendy)
Big League Theatricals, NYC
FILM / TV
A Paltry Fine
Lead
Ripfest #3, Hannah Beth King, Dir.
Bloody Dan
Lead
Eugene Ramos, Director
Anatomy of a Breakup
Supporting
Fabuchick Films, Judy Minor, Dir.
Mascara
Supporting
Buena Vista Pictures
Box
Lead
John Sinclair, Director
Eternal Pessimist (music video)
Lead
Jeremy Phillips, Director
Star Trek: Voyager
Supporting
UPN
NEW YORK THEATRE
The Show Off
Clara
On the Road Repertory Co.
Much Ado About Nothing (Reading)
Margaret/Verges
The Queen's Company, NYC
Dinner with Friends (Reading)
Beth
On the Road Repertory Co.
Library Ballet
Samantha
Dramatist’s Guild
Chloe Nelson
Heather Maggiano
Dramatist’s Guild
The Migration
Good Muireann, Bad Muireann
Interborough Repertory Theatre
Makers Mark
Jo
First Look Theatre Company
How to Lose Yourself: A Case History
Investigator
First Look Theatre Company
REGIONAL THEATRE
Twelfth Night
Olivia
Ft. Worth Shakespeare
Othello
Bianca
Ft. Worth Shakespeare
Henry V
Katherine
Ft. Worth Shakespeare
As You Like It
Celia
Ft. Worth Shakespeare
Juno and the Paycock
Mary (u.s.)
Interact Theatre Company, L.A.
The Pajama Game
Gladys
Utah Musical Theatre
City of Angles
Alaura/Carla
Utah Musical Theatre
Cabaret
Kit Kat Girl
San Gabriel CLO
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth, witch #3
Little Theatre, Fullerton, CA
IMPROV
imp –silent/physical comedy duo. Festivals: CIF (Mainstage), Toronto (Headliner), San Francisco (Headliner), LA Second City (Headliner), Seattle (Headliner), Philly Duofest, Austin, Gulf Coast, Miami, Oberlin, Baltimore
goga – duo. Festivals: CIF, Melbourne Int’l Fest, TV2 Laugh Fest (New Zealand), Austin, etc.
THEATER COMPANIES
On the Road Repertory Company, Company Member (current), Alice Spivak, Director
First Look Theatre Company, Company Member, NYU Playwriting Lab, Gary Garrison, Director
Woodstock Fringe, Company Member, Wallace Norman, Director
Write Now Workshop, member (current) Emma Goldman-Sherman, Director
TRAINING
ACTING: Alice Spivak, Lara Teeter, Dean Hess, Robert Castle, Warren Kelley, & Richard Harden
SHAKESPEARE: Phoebe Brand, Annie Occhiogrosso, Rick Hamilton, Fredi Olster, Geoff Forward
IMPROV: Jay Rhoderick, Michael Rock, William Merritt, Armando Diaz, Dan O’Connor, Brian Lohmann
CLOWNING: Christopher Bayes MIME: Christopher Eaves, Stanley Allen Sherman
DANCE: Jazz, musical theatre, modern, swing, Afro-Brazilian, tango
B.A. Magna cum laude, Acting/Musical Theatre, California State University, Fullerton
AWARDS: Favorite Actress in a Play, Audience Choice Awards 2008, DC Theatre Scene
SPECIAL SKILLS: Dialects, conversational French, stage combat, physical comedy, costume designer, seamstress