ABOUT
PRACTICE
Carsen is a multi-disciplinary storyteller with experience in directing, sound design, and creative producing with a particular focus on immersive and interactive work.
She is interested in live events that use spectacle, new forms, and grand gestures to break down walls and question assumptions. Carsen embraces stylized theatricality as a means of entertainment, conversation, and dissidence.
Much of her work lives at the intersection of sound and story; with a great enthusiasm for music, podcasts, and new media.
BIO
Carsen is the co-founder and creative producer of Rat Queen Theatre Company and the creative director of Sour Milk, an interactive media company.
She is the co-creator, alongside Molly Bicks, of Miss Atomic Power and Jerusalem, FL (2024 + 2025 National Playwrights Conference finalists)
Carsen is a current New Georges Jam Member and inaugural Mercury Store Directing Fellow. She is a former Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, Roundabout Directors Group member, FAIR Assistant Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and a member of the 2019-2021 SDCF Observership Class. Carsen was the 19/20 Wingspace Theatrical Design Directing Mentee, a National Alliance of Musical Theatre 2018 Directing Observer, and a 2018-2019 resident artist at Access Theatre with Rat Queen.
Her designs have been heard across theatre, film, and podcasts. Featuring work at Juilliard, The Mint, Platte Forum, Shakespeare and Company, Irish Repertory Theatre, People's Light (Barrymore Award Nominee), Clubbed Thumb, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Weston Theater Company, New York University, Two River Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, JACK, MITU580, and more.
Carsen likes rock candy, extreme sport documentaries, graphic novels, Lake Michigan, and Heart.