Artist Profile
Karla Franko is thrilled to be making her Chance debut! Regional credits: Sister Act (Sister Mary Laz/Cabrillo); Fiddle on the Roof (Yente/Norris); Damn Yankees (Doris/3DT); Mary Poppins (Bird Woman/Miss Andrew/Performance Riverside); La Cage Aux Folles (Jacqueline/Candlelight); Frau Blucher (Young Frankenstein/Center Stage); The Drowsy Chaperone (Mrs. Tottendale/Performance Riverside); Ragtime (Emma Goldman/Performance Riverside); Sunset BLVD. (MTW), White Christmas (Martha Watson/SDMT/Cabrillo); Hairspray (FAF/MTW),Singin’ In The Rain (Dora Bailey/Miss Dinsmore/SDMT); Evita (Mama Duarte/Broadway at the Gardens); Never Gonna Dance (Miss Tattersol/MTW). After her mid-life career change to teaching, she became a college Professor in the two areas of her passion, Theatre Arts/Dance and Religion/Philosophy, and has taught at nine Southern California colleges in the past 20 years. She’s Founder/Artistic Director of Standing Room Only Productions, Inc., a non-profit performing arts youth training organization in the High Desert, where she resides with husband Ron.