Karen trained as an actor at RADA. Her first play The Half Of It won the Stewart Parker Award in 2018 after a sold out run in Dublin. The Half Of It was nominated for five Fringe Awards and won the First Fortnight Award.
Karen’s second play Drip Feed was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. It reached the top six of 1,200 submissions. Drip Feed will have its world premiere with Soho Theatre and Fishamble in Edinburgh, Dublin and London. Drip Feed has been optioned and commissioned for television development by Witchery Pictures.
Karen has five original television shows in development with production companies.
She was shortlisted for the Red Planet Prize 2018 and the BBC Writers Room Drama Room 2019. She is RADA’s submission for the Adopt A Playwright Award 2018 and was shortlisted for the award. Karen is the Hospital Club Theatre and Performance Emerging Creative 2018/19.Karen’s writing has been supported by The Peggy Ramsay foundation. She was chosen to attend MAKE theatremakers residency in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre alongside international mentors and theatre artists.
Karen was one of the chosen playwrights for Fishamble’s A Play For Ireland initiative 2018/19.