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

She received her B.F.A. 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 is currently developing her first feature film, The Measure of She. This story is inspired by events and characterizations from the Diederik Stapel scientific misconduct scandal.

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.