Theatre

Theater:

The big news in this area is that I am taking a sabbatical from theater and teaching. For the next year or two or five, I will be focusing on my ceramic and metal work here at the Toshiko Takaezu Studio. Of course, if the itch to do theater becomes too strong or someone offers me a dream project I'll let you know-loud and proud!

Karin Abromaitis works in many areas of Theatre. She has extensive credits as a Performer, Director, Movement Consultant, Stage Combat Choreographer, and Dance Choreographer. Since 1984, she as worked primarily in the Washington, DC metro area, but has worked all over the United States and abroad.

Ms. Abromaitis has been on stage at Horizon’s Theatre, DCAC, New Playwrights Theatre, Small Beer Theatre, Goosebump Theatre, Round House Theater Silver Spring, and the Edinburgh Festival, among others. At the Kennedy Center she has been in The Gift of Giving, The Yellow Boat, and The Reluctant Dragon. Awards received include the Mary Goldwater Award for Idioglossia, as well as other awards for her solo Movement Theatre pieces: White Noise/2, White Noise/3, and Domestic Snakes.

Karin is a dynamic, exuberant workshop presenter and teacher. She is currently on hiatus from theater and teaching, but has been on the faculty of George Washington University and the Theatre Lab, and teaches frequently at Georgetown University, Montgomery College and the Theatre Lab. As an Artist/Educator, she travelled around the country leading teacher workshops for the Kennedy Center from 1999-2007. All across the United States, her workshops and classes have inspired thousands of participants to begin or deepen their personal search into their creative lives. Her classes in physical performance skills for the actor, movement consulting, coaching and fight choreography have been presented throughout the DC metro area and across the US, most recently with Round House Theatre, Everyman Theater, ACTCo, YPT, Tsunami, Woolly Mammoth, and Imagination Stage. Her training includes 15 years of dance, 5 years of mime and mask training, and stage combat training with the Society of American Fight Directors.

KARIN ABROMAITIS

Performance Resume

for complete resume please contact me at the email address below

Email: Kabromaitis@gmail.com

THEATRE:

Gnadiges Fraulein Cocalooney Bird WSC, Jay Hardee, VA

Portrait of a Madonna Nurse/Dream Woman WSC, Lynn Sharp Spears

Tales of Courage & Poultry Arlecchino Capital Fringe Fest., DC

Memoria Brassica Artist Blind Date Source Theatre Festival, DC

Memoria Br assica Collaborator Cabaret Re Re-Voltaire

Cabarett Coo Coo Cantatrice Capitol Fringe Fest, DC

The Crusty Bakers Ensemble Creative Alliance, Quest Fest

Politics & Petticoats Ensemble Wash. Women in Theatre, DC

That Takes Ovaries Ensemble Horizons Theatre, VA

Fulcrum I Ensemble Membrane, Corcoran Gallery, DC

Emma’s Child Frannie Stornant Horizon’s Theatre, VA

Materia Buffoonica Buffoon Membrane, at DCAC

Tompte, Trolls, and Gnomes Ensemble Discovery Theatre, DC

Domestic Snakes Original Solo Work Theatre Project, Balt, MD

The Yellow Boat Ensemble Kennedy Center, DC

The Reluctant Dragon Darby Kennedy Center, DC

The Gift of Giving Marcia Kennedy Center, DC

Idioglossia Nell New Playwrights' Theatre, DC

Clowns Clown Castle ArtsTheatre, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland

Mister Roger’s Neighborhood Mime (day player) Washington, DC (1986?)

Theatre Plexus Company Member Regional Tour

Lorenzaccio Maiden Hamburger Staatsoper Germany

EDUCATION and TRAINING:

B.A. Theatre Arts, 1976, University of Minnesota

Theatre: Wes Balk, Living Stage Workshop, Rebecca Rice, Julie Portman, Ryszard Cieslak (Grotowski)

Voice: Margaret Riddleburger

Mime/Mask/Clown: Wolfram Mehring (Decroux), Louis Dezseran, Jack Guidone, Theatre Plexus, Leonard Pitt, Dody DiSanto (Lecoq), Ronlin Foreman, Daniel Stein

Stage Combat: Lory Leshin, Society of American Fight Directors National Stage Combat Workshop

Dance: Lisa Boehm, Penny Dudleston, Karen Kristen, Bick Goss, Donna Rizzo, RDT, MDT

SPECIAL SKILLS:

Mime, juggling, clowning, circus skills, trapeze, mask work, stage combat, choreography, rock climbing, fluent German, pottery

AWARDS: Best of Showcase, International Movement Theatre Festival, Phil, PA, 1989

Best of Showcase, Mid-Atlantic Movement Theatre Festival, 1989

Mary Goldwater Award for Idioglossia, 1988

Nominee for Best Actress, Source Theatre Festival, 1986

KARIN ABROMAITIS

Directing & Choreography Resume

contact me for full resume

email: Kabromaitis@gmail.com

EXPERIENCE:

2014

5 Little Monkeys (National Tour) Director Adventure Theater

2013

Cat in the Hat Director/Choreographer Adventure Theater

Big Love Director/Choreographer Montgomery College

2012

5 Little Monkeys Director/Choreographer Adventure Theater

2011

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake Movement & Dance Chor. Adventure Th.

Jerry Whiddon

The Tempest Movement Choreographer Montgomery

College, MD

Sasha Olinick

2010

Shipwrecked Movement Choreographer Everyman Th.

Derek Goldman

If You Give a Pig a Pancake Movement & Dance Choreo Adventure Th.

Jerry Whiddon

Around the World in 80 Days Movement & Fight Choreo Round House Th

Nick Olcott

Midsummer Nights Dream Fight & Slapstick Choreo Mont. College,

KenYatta Rogers

She Loves Me Director Mont. College

Much Ado About Nothing Dance & Slapstick Choreo. GWU, DC

Alan Wade

2009

House of Blue Leaves Movement & Slapstick Mont. College,

Jessica Lefkow

6 Characters In Search of an Author Movement & Fight Georgetown U

Derek Goldman

Rocky Horror Show Dance & Fight Choreo Mont. College,

Roberta Gasbarre

Little Shop of Horrors Puppet & Fight Choreo GWU, DC,

Elizabeth Kitsos-Kang

Knights of Glory Fight Choreography Artstream

Domestic Snakes Director Capitol Fringe

Festival, DC

Go Dog Go Director Adventure Theatre

Far Far Oasis Choreography Happenstance Th

Pentecost Choreography Georgetown U.

Tim Raphael

Nightingale Choreography Childrens Chorus

of Washington

Mary Hall Surface

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Movement Adventure Th.

Jerry Whiddon

Go Dog Go Director Adventure Th.

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

Artistic Associate with Horizons Theatre, and a company member of Membrane Ensemble Theatre.

Actor's Co-op: Co-founder of this Community Theatre in 1978, in Jackson, WY.

Dancers' Workshop and the Workshop Company: Served as Resident Choreographer and Instructor from 1978-84. Co-founder of the Workshop Company, a professional Dance company.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: SSDC, ATME

KARIN ABROMAITIS

E-mail: Kabromaitis@gmail.com

EDUCATION: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 1971-1973

University of Hamburg, Germany 1973-1974

B.A. Theater Arts/German Literature, University of Minnesota, 1976

EXPERIENCE: As instructor or coach for classes and workshops in Acting, Mime, Mask, Theatre Movement, Clowning, Stage Combat, Directing, Playwriting, Scene Study, and Musical Theatre, for Professional Theaters, Universities, Private and Public Schools, After-school Programs, and Summer Camps.

IUGTE, Austria, 2010

Quest Fest, 2008

George Washington University, Washington, DC (1998

to 2013)

Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (2000-2007)

Georgetown University, DC (2003-present)

Theatre Lab, Washington DC

Quest-Arts for Everyone, Washington, DC

Educational Theatre Company, VA

ACTCo, Washington, DC

YPT, Washington, DC

Woolly Mammoth Theatre, DC

Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, OH

Wilson High School, Washington DC

Tsunami Theatre Company, Washington, DC

Mid-Atlantic Movement Theatre Festival, Towson, MD

St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Bethesda, MD

Center Stage, Baltimore, MD

American Playwright's Theatre, Washington, DC

Studio Theatre, Washington, DC

Towson State University, Towson, MD (part-time)

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Round House Theatre, Silver Spring, MD

Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC

Jewish Community Center, Rockville, MD

Stone Ridge High School, Bethesda, MD

Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington DC

Missoula Children's Theatre, Missoula, MT

2002: Workshop Presenter: Cleveland State University and Playhouse Square Foundation, Stories Out of Mud: Creative Approaches to Writing, Professional Development for Teachers

2000-2007: Workshop presenter for the Kennedy Center, Professional Development for Teachers

2000, 2003 & 2005: Workshop presenter, PLAA-Physical Language Analysis for Actors, AATE Conference, ATHE/ATME Washington, DC, NYC, San Francisco.

1994: Workshop leader for In Search of the Fool, for the National Family Therapists Conference, Washington, DC

1979-80, and 1983-84: Artist-in-the-Schools, Wyoming Council on the Arts for Teton County, WY.

As instructor of seminars in Creative Dramatics for the Classroom:

                                                Virginia Association for Early Childhood Development, Arlington, VA
                                                George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
                                                Wyoming State Education Association Conference, Casper, WY

Teton County Teacher In-Service training, WY
Douglas, Wyoming School District, Teacher In-Service