Karen lives in Edinburgh Scotland and is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art. Her work as a theatre designer has toured all over the UK and abroad from village halls to Sydney Opera House. She enjoys collaborating with other artists exploring live performance in it’s many forms.

Her design experience includes devising and designing physical theatre, theatre for young audiences, touring and in house productions as well as large scale site specific and promenade performances.

Previous designs for NTS include: First Snow (Theatre PAP Montreal); Lots and Not Lots (Greg Sinclair); Eddie and the Slumber Sisters (Catherine Wheels); Expensive Shit (Adura Onashile/Traverse).

Recent designs include; Castle Lennox (LungHa /Lyceum Edinburgh); Sean and Daro Flake It ’Til They Make It (Traverse Theatre); Educating Rita (Perth Theatre); Man in the Submarine (Perth Theatre/Byre); Don Quixote (Dundee Rep/PerthTheatre); Muster Station: Leith (Gridiron/ Edinburgh International Festival); Field – Something for the Future Now an outdoor dance performance by Curious seed (Edinburgh International Festival/Festival Cultura Inglesa Sao Paolo, Brazil); Rubble (Scottish Opera); a new opera by Johnny McKnight and Gareth Williams for Scottish Opera Young Company, The Children (Dundee Rep); And if Not Now… When an film installation by Philip Pinsky and Karen Lamond (National Museum Edinburgh for COP 26); Christmas Dinner (Lyceum Edinburgh).

Karen also co-directed Sonata for a Man and a Boy (Greg Sinclair) winner of CATs best Children’s Theatre. She also won CATs best design and was nominated for the New York Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Design for Hansel and Gretel (Catherine Wheels).