Karen Loewy Movilla is a Colombian multi-disciplinary theater artist, based in New Haven.  The main question in her work is how do we claim a space that hasn’t been given.  Focusing on a reclamation of narrative using an exploration of bodies and celebration of joy. Karen’s work uses digital media, embodiment, spoken word, and puppetry to confront academic texts,  inherent biases, and oppressive systems. 

In her design work Karen focuses on the dramaturgy of the script. Who are the characters, what is their world and how do they interact with it.  A space should be dynamic and highly interactive for the actors, therefore she finds inspiration in materiality and sculpture.  Her work has been seen at The Tank, Chain Theater, Mercury Store and New Ohio.

 An Untitled Romantic Comedy focuses on celebrating the rom-com, while addressing the inherent binary and heteronormativity within the genre. Collaging dialogue from rom-coms, embodying the characters and their tropes, like enemies to lovers. Amelia and Karen invite the audience into a carrousel of all and any rom com presented through a queer lens.  They seek to create space for queer stories but facing the shortcomings of a genre that was created with a binary in mind. 

Her narrative work, There’s Only Then and Now, is about sexual assault, dealing with a woman’s experience and bargaining of it, as her perpetrator was her boyfriend.  The Girl and The Alien, a piece about immigration and time travels, focusing on how dreams will be continuously broken because of society. 

Karen is a 2026 MFA Set design candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. Her work has been shown at The Tank, Paper Kraine, Are Nova and The Brick. She is part of the Latin Playwright Circle and a 2022 Object Movement Resident.