"Theater today must reclaim its roots, its sense of ceremony and celebration, its ability to provoke and empower"

--Kari Margolis

Kari Margolis is an award-winning playwright, director, master teacher, Master Teacher, keynote speaker, theatre researcher, designer, and Published Author. She is a Co-Founder, with Tony Brown, of the international touring MB ADAPTORS Company, founded in NYC in 1984. She has directed 18 evening-length productions for the Company that have toured nationally and abroad. She has also created several large-scale, site-specific events for such places as the Brooklyn Museum, the Minnesota Science Museum, and the beach at Coney Island, NY.

As a Guest Artist, Kari has led hundreds of workshops and residencies at Universities, theaters, and private studios nationally and abroad. She has been a returning teaching artist for the Association of Professional Actors and Directors of Catalunya, Barcelona, and has been a Master Teacher for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival for 15 years. Each year, the Kennedy Center offered one full scholarship to a National Irene Ryan finalist to train with Kari at the Center.

Ms. Margolis has created several original productions with students at universities, including The Love Me Knot, Viterbo University, Insula, Montclair State University, Deja Vu, Fort Lewis College, and The Human Show, University of Las Vegas, Nevada, all of which were invited to the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival.

She is the creator of Margolis Method, a comprehensive methodology for training actors and empowered theatre artists for the modern theatre, now taught and recognized internationally. Kari is the Director at the Margolis Method Center in Highland Lake, NY. She has developed and oversees the Center’s Summer Program, Professional Certification, University Professor Certification, and the Margolis Method Network online learning platform.

Kari has authored “Walking the Artistic Path” and the Margolis Method Workbook, “The Physics of Theatre and the Dynamic Merging of the Actor, Director, and Playwright.

Kari was faculty at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, from 1997 to 2004. At this time, she played an integral role in reshaping the BA Theatre Program to have a focus on the actor/creator. Kari has sat on numerous theatre panels, including three years for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Kari works as a freelance director and is presently touring “Flight,” the company’s latest production. She is working on two solo productions and producing a podcast with Tony Brown and Angela Kiser.

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