Karen Pittman

LCT: Pipeline, Disgraced (2015 Theatre World Award; Broadway and LCT3), Domesticated. Broadway: Good People (MTC), Passing Strange. Off-Broadway: King Liz (Second Stage Theater). Other theatre: Denver Center Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, The Kennedy Center. Film: Detroit, Benji the Dove, Custody, The Rewrite, Begin Again. TV: “Girlfriends Guide,” “Elementary,” “Blindspot,” “Luke Cage,” “Horace and Pete,” “The Americans,” “House of Cards,” “Law & Order.” Education: BS in Opera, Northwestern University; MFA, New York University

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LCT Blog Posts

  • Karen Pittman Sings "The Tremble in My Heart"
    Pipeline  |  Essays

    Karen Pittman Sings "The Tremble in My Heart"

    Brendan Lemon  |  Sept. 5, 2017

    PIPELINE has completed a well-received, well-attended engagement in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. I find myself flashing back, however, to the week before rehearsals began.

  • Karen Pittman: Being of Service
    Pipeline  |  Essays

    Karen Pittman: Being of Service

    Brendan Lemon  |  Aug. 17, 2017

    Almost at the outset of my interview with Karen Pittman, she began talking about “the joy of playing Nya,” her worried mother and high-school teacher in PIPELINE.

  • Disgraced (LCT3)  |  Essays

    Getting to Know Karen Pittman

    Rebecca Leshin  |  Sept. 18, 2012
    Tagged: LCT3

    Cast member Karen Pittman sat down to answer a few questions about herself and what her experience working on DISGRACED has been like thus far.