Karen Hartman

Karen Hartman was the first-ever playwright honored by Amplify (formerly Volt), an unprecedented festival of three simultaneous off-Broadway premieres by a single author: New Golden Age (Primary Stages, Blackburn Prize Finalist); The Lucky Star (The Directors Company); and Goldie, Max & Milk (MBL Productions, shortlisted for the LAMBDA Literary Award). Hartman has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton’s Hodder Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship, and her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, MacDowell Colony, New Dramatists, the Helen Merrill Foundation, Hedgebrook, Playwrights Center and more.