Karen Hines

Karen Hines, a Canadian actor, writer and director, was born in Chicago and raised in Toronto. She leads her own development company, Keep Frozen: Pochsy Productions, and held a playwright residency at Alberta Theatre Projects between 2009 and 2012. Her published stage work includes Crawlspace, Hello...Hello, Drama: Pilot Episode and The Pochsy Plays, a dark comedy trilogy; The Pochsy Plays made the 2004 Governor General's Award shortlist for drama, and Drama: Pilot Episode made the same shortlist in 2012. She trained at Toronto's Second City and with Philippe Gaulier, and is regarded in Canada as an authority on Bouffon. On television she appeared in Ken Finkleman's satires The Newsroom, Foreign Objects and Married Life, earning Gemini and CableACE nominations, and her film roles include Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) and Man of the Year (2006). She also directed all of Mump and Smoot's productions, from Fringe shows to Off-Broadway and Yale Repertory Theatre.