Karen Dee Carpenter is a multidisciplinary artist creating work as a filmmaker, playwright and painter.

She received her B.F.A. degree in Painting at Tyler School of Art and her M.F.A degree in Film and Media Arts at Temple University. She has produced several films that have screened internationally and received numerous “best of fest” awards and the prestigious Princess Grace Award.

Karen recently completed production on The Show, a short film currently in post-production and adapted from her feature screenplay, The Measure of She. The feature screenplay has received recognition from screenplay competitions and film festivals in the United States and Europe, including a Top 3 Finalist placement at ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival and recognition as a Top 10 Screenplay at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival.

Karen's full-length play, Street Play, was a Semifinalist for the 2018 O'Neill American Playwright's Conference and workshopped at The Company of Angeles in March 2019.  Her short play, You Try Living Here, was published by Leicester Bay Theatricals in 2017 as part of the New Play Development Workshop anthology of new works.

In 2022, Karen was appointed a Senior Visiting Fellow at the American University of Classical Studies in Athens Greece where she conducted research for Beautiful Monsters, a series of short virtual reality operas based on The Odyssey by Homer.