Karen Musey is a dynamic Canadian born, New York based actress and writer. Her training includes study with UCB, Tim Phillips, The Studio Act, Kimball Studio, Canada's National Voice Intensive, Comic Strip Live, Barrow Group and Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet Professional Division.
Current projects: My Rode Reel festival submission - Karen stars in Caroline - a battered wife seeks help from a stranger in the woods but something goes terribly wrong. ; and The Walk, the comedy short about a new couple out on the town was an Official Selection at the 2017 Manhattan Film Festival. She is the co-writer of The Audit - a comedic one act play about the consequences of mixing taxes and dating. Karen writes / plays a multitude of fun characters in the sketch comedy web series Muse-A-Dopoulos.
Past projects include performing with PHISH at Madison Square Garden and WORLD PREMIERE of the Canadian Opera Company's Ring Cycle in Das Rheingold.
Her writing for dance and arts features can be seen in Huffington Post and 4dancers. Obsessions: Ancient Egypt, Hibiscus anything and the total badassery of her rescue kitty, Caida.
Unique traits: Sparkle mixed with dry sarcasm!
Caroline
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Film
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The Walk
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Film
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Muse-A-Dopoulos
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Television
Actress
With/Out U
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Film
Actress
Mysteries at the Museum
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Television
(Documentary and Mystery)
Actress The stories behind interesting and unusual artifacts stored in museums are told.
Foreign Exchange
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Film
(Short and Comedy)
Actress Add a Plot »
Film Lab Presents
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Television
(Drama)
Actress A series of "Film Lab Mash Ups" ranging from comedy to drama. The consistent underlying theme is one of definition - what does it mean to be a minority member of a society? The issue is examined through positive, non-academic, easily accessible, and creative original stories. Written by Jennifer Betit Yen, Asian American Film Lab Inc and NYC Media
#RunawayGroom
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Video
Actress When Ben the groom disappears on his wedding day, reality TV star bride Becca and gay best man Steve must put aside their differences to find him.
Jeremy Lin the Musical
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Film
(Short and Musical)
Actress Jeremy Lin the Musical is a fictional retelling of the first time Jeremy Lin proved himself on a basketball court. Written by Kevin Yee
An American Girl on the Home Front
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TV Movie
(Drama, Family and War)
Actress Based on several of the "Molly; An American Girl" books, this story is set in 1943 in the fictional town of Jefferson, Illinois during World War II. Molly McIntire and her family are learning to cope with the changes the war has brought to their close-knit family. Molly misses her father who went overseas to care for the wounded soldiers. As they try to keep things running smoothly, Molly enters a dance contest at school. She and her friends are lively, outgoing and always bursting with ideas. Also during this time a young girl named Emily comes from London England to live with the family and Molly learns the importance of getting along and pulling together. Written by Anon
Shall We Dance
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Film
(Comedy, Drama and Romance)
Actress John Clark is a middle aged Chicago estate lawyer. He loves his family, which includes his wife Beverly, but their combined busy schedules and getting caught in a rut after two decades of marriage has left him feeling unfulfilled. While taking the el train home every night, he notices the same young, beautiful contemplative woman staring out of one of the windows of Miss Mitzi's Dance Studio, which specializes in ballroom. He is intrigued enough with her beauty and sadness to go in one evening on his way home. He learns that she is Paulina, one of the instructors and a former world class ballroom dancer. Because of her, he signs up for beginner group dance lessons, regardless of them being taught by Miss Mitzi herself, and not Paulina. As time progresses, John gets caught up in the lives of those at Miss Mitzi's: his two fellow classmates - overweight Vern who wants to learn to dance for his upcoming wedding, and Chic, who wants to impress the ladies - and two of the studio's ... Written by Huggo