Karen Dee Carpenter

86 pages, 9 characters

2019 Workshop Reading, The Company of Angels, Los Angeles

2018 Semifinalist, O’Neill American Playwright’s Conference

Darcy Robinson, a once celebrated chess player, now plays on the street for five bucks a match.

“...somewhat improvisational with an unwitting and mercurial cast. A sort of post-modern, commedia dell’ spectacular, by way of skid row…”

10 pages, 3 characters

You Try Living Here, revolves around an aspiring actress who has botched an audition, is about to be evicted and can’t find the means to bury her beloved, dead cat.

This play has been workshopped at the ATHE Play Development Workshop and The Other Space Theater with FRESH PRODUC'D LA.

2017 - Published by Leicester Bay Theatricals in an anthology of works selected by the ATHE New Play Development Workshop.