Karen Hartman is a recent Guggenheim Fellow whose plays have been celebrated as passionate, relevant storytelling that “resonate in the current moment with overpowering force (Variety)." Stay tuned for announcements about her four productions from the 2020-21 season “on pause” during the pandemic, including the New York premiere of ROZ AND RAY at Primary Stages, and the world premiere of a new musical, RATTLESNAKE KATE, score by Neyla Pekarek, at Denver Center (based on Pekarek's album Rattlesnake).

GOOD FAITH: FOUR CHATS ABOUT RACE AND THE NEW HAVEN FIRE DEPARTMENT premiered at Yale Repertory Theater in 2019, and three recent works – ROZ AND RAY (Edgerton New Play Prize), THE BOOK OF JOSEPH, and PROJECT DAWN (NEA Art Works Grant, NNPN Rolling World Premiere) – had ten productions across the country and are published by Samuel French. Hartman wrote the book for ALICE BLISS (music: Jenny Giering, lyrics: Adam Gwon, based on Laura Harrington's novel) which won the 2019 Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award. She is developing PROJECT DAWN for Population Media Center as a television series.

Hartman’s prose has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post. A New Dramatists alumna and former Playwrights Center McKnight Fellow, Princeton Hodder Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar, Hartman holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BA from Yale University. She served as Senior Artist-in-Residence at University of Washington School of Drama for five years, and lives in Brooklyn with her family.