Karen McLeod is a performance practitioner living and working out of Liverpool City Centre. She gained a BA in Drama at Edgehill University and went on to study an MA in The Visual Language of Performance at Wimbledon College of Art. Karen has recently moved into a studio space at The Bluecoat and has been commissioned by greenroom and hÅb to create work. Karen is an assured seamstress and is constantly working with other performers. This year she has received Arts Council funding to Research and Develop the piece ‘Morphine’.

The focus of her practice is to create questions around the discursive nature of femininity. She creates physical performances through female personae who normally display some sort of transgressive behaviour to challenge the audiences’ boundaries, forcing them to question and celebrate the art of live performance. She has trained physically in styles such as Decroux, Grotowski, Le coq and has just been introduced to Clown.