Karen McKenney

Karen McKenney served as the Artistic Director for the award-winning Rainbow Company Youth Theatre here in Las Vegas for more than 30 years. She taught acting, dance, mime, costume design, performance art and directing to students ages 10-18, and she directed several productions a year. For 24 years, she wrote and directed an original play about the history of Nevada that toured to local elementary schools. After a very lengthy acting hiatus, Karen was most recently seen as Edith Zuckerman in Neon Spark Youth Theatre’s production of Charlotte’s Web, and Nell in APF’s staged reading of Endgame.