Karen Fort is a playwright, director and actor in Chicago, Illinois. She directed Slaughter City by Naomi Wallace, after playing the role of Mrs. Bernicke in Drumming In the Night at Prop Theater, directed by Stefan Brun. Karen played Chris in The Abdication for Wade-Kweskin Productions, and Nickitushka in Chekov’s Swansong. She played Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Theater NOW, and Brinna in The Medusa at the Nutshell. She played Nora in Better Living with Open Eye Theater. As an Equity actress, she worked for Victory Gardens (Close Ties), the Organic (Poe), Pheasant Run (Lunch Hour) and St. Nicholas (The Miracle Worker, Captain Marbles).She was seen on channel 11 in Protect Yourself, as a single mother who worries her daughter, and appeared in the film Four Friends, directed by Arthur Penn. Her directing credits include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet (twice each), To Kill A Mockingbird, Comedy of Errors, Measure For Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, Macbeth, As You Like It, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Life Is A Dream, Summer Brave, The Tempest, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Much Ado About Nothing, Sally and Marsha, Pastoral, Castanets, and Motherlove. She taught professional adults Meisner technique at The Actor’s Center, and founded the Young Actors Program at the Organic Theater. She taught and directed at the Chicago Park District for twelve years. She wrote Groundswell, workshopped at RhinoFest, wrote Accidents, which received a staged reading at Victory Gardens and a workshop at the Rhino Fest, and The Arch for the Illustrated Theater. Her stories and articles have been published in The Reader, Sociology 101, and her poetry in a collection, Miracles.