Karen Odyniec
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After launching Reel Siren Films in 1998, Karen's first cinematic effort, *Watermelon*, sponsored by Women Make Movies, won a special commendation at the CIAFF and showcased at the NY Women's Film Festival among others. She directed workshop productions for Zoetrope Live Story, The Actors' Playground and Tiny Mythic Theatre at Here. She stage managed plays and festivals for NY Theatre Workshop, The Actors' Studio, Naked Angels, Jim Henson Productions and The Public Theatre working with playwrights and directors such as Christopher Ashley, Jonathan Larson, Kenneth Lonergan and Rebecca Miller. Karen has made several short narrative and documentary films, including *The Valise* (2005), which premiered at the Lincoln Center Toons, Tunes and Trik Films Festival, and The *Face of Family Homelessness/Compass* (2007), a documentary that raised money and awareness for the cause in San Francisco. Her script, *Charm School for Primates*, won a 2008 Sloan Foundation Feature Screenplay Award and was a 2009 Hampton's Film Festival Screenwriters' Lab selection. *America, Let's Go!*, her music video based on characters and music from her short, *Deadline* (2008), premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. She produced Nat Johnson's *Bedwetter* (2009 Victoria Film Festival) and is now making a feature documentary based on Norris Church Mailer's memoir, *A Ticket to the Circus*, Random House's Spring 2010 lead non-fiction release. Karen studied directing with Lee Grant, and acting with Uta Hagen and Elaine Aiken. MFA candidate, Film, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Karen resides in New York City.