{"id":32757,"date":"2023-10-24T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pioneertheatre.org\/?post_type=staff-bios&#038;p=32757"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:11:22","slug":"karen-azenberg","status":"publish","type":"staff-bios","link":"https:\/\/pioneertheatre.org\/staff-bios\/karen-azenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Azenberg | Artistic Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"32757\" class=\"elementor elementor-32757\" data-elementor-post-type=\"staff-bios\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1926c48 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1926c48\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f1b46a8\" data-id=\"f1b46a8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99f984e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"99f984e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pioneertheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Karen-Azenberg-768x768.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-51799\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pioneertheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Karen-Azenberg-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/pioneertheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Karen-Azenberg-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pioneertheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Karen-Azenberg-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/pioneertheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Karen-Azenberg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pioneertheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Karen-Azenberg.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-5119e07 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5119e07\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-772ae57\" data-id=\"772ae57\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90f2976 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"90f2976\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Karen Azenberg<\/strong><br \/>Artistic Director<\/p><p><a href=\"mailto:karen.azenberg@ptc.utah.edu\">Email Karen<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4eec415 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4eec415\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is now in her 14th season as Artistic Director at Pioneer Theatre Company. Favorite projects include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beautiful: The Carole King Musical <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(a co-production between PTC and Geva), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natasha, Pierre &amp; The Great Comet of 1812, The Lehman Trilogy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the world premiere of<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Alabama Story<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the regional premiere of Sting\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Last Ship<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Newsies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Play That Goes Wrong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rocky Horror Show<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Through Karen, PTC also hosted the first (and still only) Utah out-of-town tryout for a Broadway musical: the Tony Award-winning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shucked.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Originally from New York, her work there includes Lyrics and Lyricists (92nd St. Y), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blocks<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (a collaboration with Jonathan Larson) <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prom Queens Unchained<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and choreography for Richard Greenberg\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dazzle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Roundabout Theatre Company). Among her other credits are over 15 productions of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">West Side Story<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and she has worked with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Goodspeed, Theatre Aspen, and Utah Shakespeare Festival. Karen is a past president of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and is a proud mom to Alexander and Emelia.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":51799,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[],"tags":[151],"staff-bios":[],"class_list":["post-32757","staff-bios","type-staff-bios","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ptc-staff"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pioneer Theatre Company<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" 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