I stood in a Brooklyn post office renewing my teenage son’s passport, hoping to board a plane by summertime. When I paid with a USAA check, the postal worker thanked me for my service. I deflected as usual: “Oh no, I didn’t serve, my father served.” I have USAA imposter syndrome; I know I didn’t […]
Karen Hartman
Karen Hartman is a Guggenheim-awarded playwright and librettist who writes about human beings caught in the crosshairs of history. She was profiled in the New York Times as the first-ever playwright honored by Amplify, an unprecedented festival of three simultaneous off-Broadway premieres by a single author. After teaching at Yale, New York University, and the University of Washington, she founded and leads a life-altering program that employs dramatic principles to fuel personal growth, The Hundred Day Reckoning: a Creative Response to Hard Change.
