Artist Profile
Karen O’Hanlon is delighted to be a Chance Resident Artist and Artistic Council Member. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theater from East Stroudsburg University. As the Education Director, she is incredibly proud of the Chance Theater’s Youth and Teen programs that focus on building confident leaders, and the groundbreaking Speak Up program that uses theater arts to empower participants to find their voice through creative expression while building empathy. Through community support, the Speak Up program has grown into three branches: serving teens, serving veterans, and our new program, Spectrum ‘Speak Up’, serving kids with developmental disorders. Additional career highlights include writing and directing A Celtic Holiday with Craic in the Stone (Best Special Event by Examiner.com), working as a debate coach with the Orange County Debate League, and teaching Theater and Debate at Fairmont Private Schools. She has previously appeared on the Chance Stage in the SoCal Premier of Middletown, The Laramie Project & Laramie Project: 10 years later (LA Stage Times’ Top Ten of 2013), Passion Play (Orange County Premier), Rare Birds (OTR Workshop), and The Eight: Reindeer Monologues.
