Karen Ludwig

Karen Ludwig (born October 9, 1942)

On Broadway, Ludwig acted in The Devils (1965), The Bacchae (1980), Broadway Bound (1986), and Prelude to a Kiss (1990). She was a member of Andre Gregory's Manhattan Project theatrical company, performing across Europe and the United States in Our Late Night and The Seagull. Ludwig's film debut came in Manhattan where she played Meryl Streep’s lover. She also was in ‘Stanley & Iris’ with Robert deNiro & Jane Fonda, That Awkward Moment and Thirteen Days. Television programs on which she acted include Citizen Cohn, ER, Judging Amy, Law & Order, and Party of Five.

Ludwig has been the director of plays at Circle Repertory Company, Ensemble Studio, The HB Playwright's Theater, NYU School of the Arts, and Theater for the New City. She also wrote and directed one-act plays at The HB Playwright's Theater and Third Stage in Stratford, Canada. Her work behind the camera in film includes directing and writing the short film The Good Stuff. She has also led workshops on "The Power of Communication and Collaboration". She is faculty for 15 years at the School of Drama at The New School and at HB Studio, both in New York. In the late 1980s, she taught a course for female lawyers, helping them to learn to show more emotion as a way of being more effective in court sessions.