Karen MacDonald*

KarenMacDonald* ( Pru Payne) is a Boston based actor, director and teacher and has appeared at Speakeasy Stage in Heroes of the Fourth Turning, The Children, Other Desert Cities and The Drowsy Chaperone.
Recent appearances include Wipeout at Gloucester Stage, Gaslight and A Christmas Carol at Merrimack Rep, Rooted at The Lyric Stage and Common Ground Revisited at the Huntington Theatre.
In the New England area, she has worked at Hartford Stage, Trinity Rep, Gamm Theatre, Boston Theatre Company, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Greater Boston Stage Company, Israeli Stage, New Rep, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company , The Boston Symphony
Orchestra and the Boston Pops among others. She is a Founding Company Member of the American Repertory Theatre and appeared in 73 productions., in both the U.S. and Europe.
On Broadway, she understudied and performed the role of Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, directed by John Tiffany. She has also worked at Theatre for a New Audience, The Roundabout Theatre and Second Stage. Nationally, she has worked across the country from the Wilma Theatre to Berkeley Rep.
She has received several Eliot Norton and IRNE Awards for her performances, as well as the Robert Brustein Prize for Sustained Achievement in the Theatre and the Eliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.

Shows

PRU PAYNE

Oct 18 – Nov 16, 2024

by

Steven Drukman

directed by

paul daigneault

East Coast Premiere! Prudence “Pru” Payne is a contemporary Dorothy Parker: a sharp-tongued intellectual and critic who recently signed on to share her extraordinary life in an eagerly-awaited autobiography. But when Pru’s memory starts to fade, her son sets her …

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Heroes of the Fourth Turning

SEP 9 - OCT 8, 2022

Written by

Will arbery

Directed by

MARIANNA BASSHAM

WINNER! 2020 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play! One week after the Charlottesville riots in 2017, four young conservatives gather in a Wyoming backyard to gossip and reminisce. They’ve assembled to honor Gina, their mentor and the newly inaugurated president of …

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