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Karen McCartney
Karen is part of the Rough Magic 2018 ensemble, performing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Karen was part of the first group to graduate from the BA in Acting course at The Lir Academy in 2014.
Since then she has gone on to work at Druid Theatre Company on DruidShakespeare and Big Maggie, at The Gate Theatre on The Heiress and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. She was also part of the cast of Hostel 16 for the Dublin Fringe Festival and Signatories at The Olympia Theatre. She played Serena, a mermaid, in Futureproof as part of Cork’s Midsummer Festival.
Her film and tv credits include Crone Wood and Fair City.
She previously worked with Rough Magic on the new musical The Train which was part of Dublin Theatre Festival and later revived for The Abbey stage and was a member of the cast for the SEEDS production of Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play.