More About Karen
For over 35 years, Karen has performed at numerous festivals and conferences, most recently the New Mexico Jewish Storytelling Festival in 2024, and The National Storytelling Network Conference in 2025, and at venues including The Getty Center, and the LA County Museum of Art.
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Karen tells Jewish, multicultural, personal, and family stories. She has developed and presented over thirty commissioned works on the history of cities, organizations, and people.
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World-wide audiences have applauded Karen’s work as a performer, published author, teacher, and award-winning recording artist . . .
“Funny, inspiring, outrageous, and real!”
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Karen has touched the lives of thousands of students through her Creative Learning Place, an academic and arts center for home-schooled students, she founded in 2009. She is also an international touring artist with the Buenos Aires-based company DreamOn Productions, and she has brought her storytelling to thousands of students in person at international schools in China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Colombia. Since the COVID pandemic, she has Zoomed to an additional 15 countries.
Karen is also a recording artist, and in 2005 her CD, “Tales and Scales” received the prestigious National Parenting Publications Gold Honor Award. In 2006, Karen’s CD, “Pass It On: A Journey Through the Jewish Holidays in Story and Song” won the Storytelling World Honor Award for Recording Excellence and in 2007 this CD won The National Parenting Publications Honor Award. Karen's published stories can be read in many anthology collections and in 2023 she was commissioned by Story Crossroads to write her E-Book “Storytelling Tools for Connecting with Any Age, Especially Kids.”
Karen is the recipient of numerous grants which have allowed her to bring her craft to schools, social service agencies and to youth-at-risk. In 2023 Karen was the recipient of the VELA grant for her Creative Learning Place. In 2014, she was the recipient of a National Storytelling Association Members Grant for her project “My Story, My Voice,” allowing her to expand her teaching artist work with non-verbal autistic teens and help them bring their stories to life.
