KAREN TOMLIN

London Theatre Program

Karen Tomlin has worked as a Theatre Practitioner and Artist for over twenty  five years. She initially trained as an actor, studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Working  for theatre companies such as The Globe and The National Theatre. As a theatre director making work for theatre companies such as Paines Plough, Clean Break, The Gate, and Ovalhouse Theatre and the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

She has extensive experience working within actor training conservatoires these include Royal Central school of Speech and Drama, Arts Educational, Rose Bruford, RADA. She recently directed a production of Emilia at Guildhall Drama School and is currently an Acting Tutor at LAMDA.

She is a qualified teacher in Post Compulsory Education ( University College London, Institute of Education) and has a Masters in Applied Theatre from ( Royal Central School of Speech and Drama). She is currently in her final year of her doctoral studies at Queen Mary University of London. Her research area is on Black British Female Theatre Directors, intitled, The Black Female Masculine.