KAREN ZACARÍAS (Playwright) is thrilled to bring Shane to one of her beloved Dallas Theater Center, which did stellar productions of her plays Native Gardens and The Book Club Play.  Karen has been hailed by American Theater Magazine as one of the most produced playwrights in the US. Her adaptation of Shane with long-time director Blake Robison premiered last year at The Guthrie Theater and Cincinnati Playhouse on the Park and heads to The Oregon Shakespeare Festival this summer. Her adaptation of The Age Of Innocence will be produced at Arena Stage this winter. Other large regional productions include a revival of her award-winning time-travel comedy Legacy Of Light at the McCarter Theater, The Book Club Play at Cincinnati Playhouse. She currently has three Broadway-bound musicals, including Destiny Of Desire and Five Notes with composer/super-star Gloria Estefan. Other award-winning plays include The Copper Children, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana, and adaptations of Just Like Us, Into the Beautiful North, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and a bilingual Romeo y Juliet. She is core founder of the Latino Theatre Commons - a large national organization of artists seeking to update the American narrative with the stories of Latinos, and the founder of the award-winning Young Playwrights’ Theater. Karen was voted a 2019 Washingtonian of the Year and awarded the 2019 Sine Fellowship at the American University School of Public Policy, 2019 Lee-Reynolds-Award for “social, cultural, or political change with theater” and the 2019 Medallion by the Children’s Theater Foundation. She is a 2021 recipient of the United Artists Fellowship. Karen lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband Rett, their three children, and two dogs.  Represented by the Gersh Agency and published by Concord Theatricals, Dramatic Publishing and has a collection of plays with Oberon Books.