Meet Our Teaching Artists
Karen Morales Chacana
Karen Morales-Chacana is a Chilean-born actress and teacher. She holds an acting and education degree. She recently acted at GALita,in Picasso where she also appeared in Entre el cielo y la tierra, Blancaflor –The Girl Wizard, Seneca, The Library Mouse, Volcanos, Storytelling from El Salvador, Platero and I and Believe It or Not!, Cri-cri And as a choreographer in The World Is A Handkerchief. She is a GALA Hispanic Theatre company member who appeared in Like Water for Chocolate, Chronic of the Death Foretold, The Knight from Olmedo, Cuba’s King of Song, Jornada Escondida and Blood Wedding, Blind date, Molotov Kisses. She is member of Synetic Theater Company and has appeared in Antony and Cleopatra, Dracula and Jekyll & Hyde and performed at Kennedy center with them. She also participated in The Mouse In Motion with Imagination Stage. She wrote, directed and performed, Dream of Azul. At the Fringe Festival she acted in El Sueño or The Delightful Nightmares of the Ladies and Rapists and Drug Dealers. In Teatro de la Luna she acted in As If It Were Tonight, Two-Scented Roses and I want them both, and she has led puppetry workshops for the company, Searching for Gabriela at The In Series, A Wonderful Meeting, Little Red Riding Hood and Pito y Pepa with D2 Puppet Theater. She produced for Spotlight Communications in Lovers and acted in Accept Me If You Love Me. She holds many other credits in Chile. She is co-founder and co-artistic producing director at Teatro La Bolsa, where she co-wrote, directed and acted in Celebremos. Her last film was Love in the Elevator. Karen is Spanish, dance and theater teacher works at Oyster Bilingual School, Janney School and Sitar Center with early childhood and at Shakespeare theatre company Education, SED Center and BRIYA Public Charter School where she also works as a trainer teacher.