Karen Ludwig

Karen Ludwig is an American actress and teacher who also directs. A San Francisco native, she moved to New York in 1963 and trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater with Uta Hagen. After two years with the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky, she appeared on Broadway in The Devils, Broadway Bound, and Prelude to a Kiss. With Andre Gregory's Manhattan Project, she toured in Our Late Night and The Seagull. Her film debut was in Manhattan (1979), playing Meryl Streep's lover, and she later appeared in Stanley & Iris (1990), That Awkward Moment (2014), and Thirteen Days. Her television credits include Party of Five, Law & Order, Judging Amy, ER, and Citizen Cohn (1992). Ludwig has directed plays at Circle Repertory Company, written and directed one-act plays and the short film The Good Stuff, and taught acting at NYU and USC. In 2015 she wrote and performed Where Was I? at Shetler Studios and Joe's Pub.