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Karen Sheridan
Professor of Theatre
Acting Area Coordinator
Contact
sheridan@oakland.edu
(248) 370-2045
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Karen Sheridan, Professor, is an actress originally from Chicago who came to Oakland after a year on the road as Cinderella’s Stepmother in Into the Woods. In Chicago, she played a host of roles and garnered two Joseph Jefferson Citations. In the Detroit area she’s been recognized with a Detroit Free Press Best Supporting Actress Award for Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa and Oakland Press Awards for that play and her work in Angels in America, both at Meadow Brook Theatre.
Karen got her AB in Theatre from Loyola University of Chicago, spending one year at their Rome Center campus in Italy. She studied mime in Paris with Etienne Decroux and got her MFA from the Goodman School of Drama/DePaul. She taught at both her alma maters and spent six years on faculty at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.