Kara Davidson

Kara Davidson (Witch, Puppeteer) is a playwright, director, performer, puppeteer, and teaching artist, as well as Director of New Works at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, IL. Previously, she was Producer of the NOW Lab with the Omaha Playhouse in Nebraska and a co-director of The Lab Chicago, an incubator for new works in a variety of genres. She holds an MFA in writing for stage and screen from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and earned her BA in theater performance from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Davidson has been performing with Manual Cinema since 2015, and previous touring shows with the company include Ada/Ava, Lula del Ray, The Electric Stage, Pop Up Magazine, and The End of TV; she was also a puppeteer for the 2021 feature film Candyman. Davidson volunteers as a teaching facilitator with the Chicago-based A.B.L.E. Ensemble, which creates theater and film projects for, with, and by individuals with Down syndrome and other intellectual and developmental disabilities. As a performer, she has worked with Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the House Theatre of Chicago, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Nebraska Repertory Theatre, among others. Her video game credits as a motion capture performer include Injustice 2, Mortal Kombat 11, Mortal Kombat 1, Call of Duty, and Black Ops: Cold War.