Hi. 
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I was born and raised in Rochester, NY, and graduated from the University of Chicago and the Actors Studio Drama School.  For almost 20 years I worked for Inside the Actors Studio, where I was the researcher, the Associate Producer and Producer.  For two presidential campaigns I served as a writer and policy analyst for Gary Johnson.  I also work as a writing teacher and consultant.

I am a playwright.

I co-wrote the Broadway hit The Lifespan of a Fact.  We sold out quite a bit and got some great reviews, and received with my co-authors David Murrell and Gordon Farrell the 2019 John Gassner Award for New Plays from the Outer Critics Circle. We usually grossed a million a week, largely thanks to our amazing cast (Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones, and Bobby Cannavale) and artistic team (led by the amazing Leigh Silverman) 

Over the years, I've won a few awards, including the EST Next Step Fellowship, the Walter Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Hamptons Film Festival's screenwriting conference, the Playwrights Center/Guthrie Theater's Two-Headed challenge, and the 25th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Awards.   

​And when I'm not acting up, I act.

I don't do this as often as I used to, but I've appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe, on a few TV shows and commercials, and in a couple of feature films.  Once I was on a game show - Cash Cab.  That was fun. 

In New York, you might have seen me in The Shylock and the Shakespeareans.

In London, you might have seen me in The Value of Names.

KAREKEN, AMERICAN