Bio:
Karla Hartley is currently the President and Producing Artistic Director of Stageworks Theatre and
an adjunct professor at The University of Tampa. She has directed, designed and performed in countless
shows around the nation for the last 25 years. Acting credits include Drew in Girl Bar, Gertrude Stein in
Gertrude and Alice, the Stage Manager in Our Town, Aunt Dan in Aunt Dan and Lemon, Eddie and
Doctor Scott in The Rocky Horror Show, Jessie in ‘Night Mother and Roxanne in Morningside, for which
she won the 2020 Theatre Tampa Bay award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.
Project May 2023: Talking With: The show is being done in honor of Anna Brennen a cast of 11 women
performing 11 monologues.
Synopsis:
Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. They
include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex-rodeo rider, and an actress willing to go to
any length to get a job.