Karol has an MA in
Speech and Performing Arts from Northeastern Illinois University.
Her favorite courses were in oral interpretation and directing which
have given her the impetus for the many readers' theater programs
she has compiled and directed for Oakton Community College.
Her preparatory years were spent acting in community
theater, where she starred as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? and Serafina in The Rose Tattoo for Northshore
Theater company.
As a former director of ACTING UP!, Oakton's
senior adult touring company and the UNINCORPORATED, TRULY INSPIRED,
WAY-OUT IMAGINATION THEATRICAL COMPANY, Oakton's student touring
company, Karol knows what it's like to direct, book performances
and pull off a show just about anywhere. She has been an adjunct
instructor in theater arts for many years teaching Fundamentals
of Acting , Intermediate Acting, and Introduction to Theater.
Karol's directing credits include: Play it
Again Sam, To Life: Heroic Voices, Sunrise; Sunset,
The Glory of the Story, Love Letters, Oleanna, Internet Chatroom,
Sondheim's Putting It Together, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair
de Lune, Molly Sweeney, Skyligfht, Lebensraum, Collected Stories.,
Isn't It Romantic?, Einstein's Dreams, Inland Romance, and
Never the Sinner.
Karol has been instructor in Oakton's Emeritus
program teaching memoir writing, film analysis, play analysis and
creative writing. After earning a graduate certificate in Gerontology
from the University of Illinois, Karol created the Older Adult Institute
at the College of DuPage and was director of the Older Adult program
at the Horwich JCC for five and a half years. She has also created
Legacy of Life Productions, Inc. which produces video portraits
of older adults and families sharing their life stories.
In her spare time, she plays the role of Mother
of four adult women and Grandmother of seven. Her dining room table
at holiday time is lively.
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