artistic Director
Creating a vision for performance
Ariana Karp
Ariana is an actor, director, educator, and cellist. She is an alumna of London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) with a Masters degree in Classical Acting, and a Bachelors degree in Literature-Theatre from Reed College. She has made theatre in New York, London, and across the United States and Japan.
Currently a visiting instructor in the Performance, Theater, and Dance Department at Colby College and previously a visiting instructor in the English and World Literature Field Group at Pitzer College, she has completed teaching residencies, and conducted workshops for actors and students of all ages throughout the US. Ariana is the curator of the ISC’s collaboration with Tabling: The Podcast, resulting in the Radio Shakespeare Lab, available on all podcasting platforms.
Ariana is passionate about the cultivation of radical empathy, individual empowerment through complex language and community building. Her teaching and directing focus on the utilization of textual analysis, creative problem solving, the development of ensemble, and movement to activate the text through the body.
She is a member of the international collective of artists, The Shakespeare Ensemble, and joined them on a tour of Japan in 2019, performing Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet in original pronunciation (OP).