Karen Perry is a native third generation New Yorker who has been living in Santa Monica since 1999. After Good Grief (Kirk Douglas Theatre) and Joe Turner’s Come & Gone (Mark Taper Forum), she is returning to Center Theatre Group with her 12TH collaboration in costume design with director Ruben Santiago-Hudson and music composer Dr. Bill Sims, Jr. Karen's recent and upcoming costume design projects include Jazz (Marin Theatre Company), Black Super Hero Magic Mama (Geffen Playhouse), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage), August Wilson’s King Hedley II (Two River Theatre), Oklahoma! (TUTS), Cinderella (Eglevsky Ballet Company, NY), Familar (Woolly Mammoth, Guthrie Theater, and Seattle Rep), Citizens Market (City Theatre Company), Skeleton Crew (Baltimore Center Stage), and Hair, Steel Magnolias, Miller, Mississippi (Dallas Theater Center). Awards, accolades, and nominations include CableACE TV Award, Emmy nomination, Costume Designers Guild Award, nine AUDELCO Awards, two NAACP Awards, Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Henry Hewes Design Theatre Award, two BTAA Costume Design Awards, Dallas Costume Designer of the Year Award 2017, and the 2005 National Black Theatre Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award for Costume Design Excellence in American and Black Stage, Film, and Television.