Kara Turner is a SAFD intermediate actor combatant and a 2025 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellow for theatre. As a teaching artist, she works in public schools, colleges, and nonprofits, including The Life Stories Program at The Theatre Lab. Movement-based acting credits include: The Welders' the earth that is sufficient, Theatre Prometheus' (Anon)ymous, and Washington National Opera’s Il trovatore (as seen on CBS News story, Singer Latonia Moore: "There's opera for all kinds of people" (Dec. 31, 2022). She was a 2023 cohort member of the Sumer Sling Fight Choreographer’s Track and trains in aerial arts at Cap City Circus.

Highlights: 

• Teaching Assistant: Fire & Ice Movement Arts (Staff and Single Sword SPTs - spring 2025);  Virginia Beach BASH regional workshop (March 2023)
• Intern/PA at: January 2020 Tourist Trap (Orlando, FL) presented by Neutral Chaos, 2024 Allegheny Alley Fight (Pennsylvania), 2024 Mid-Atlantic Melee (Maryland). 
• Assisted Fight Director Casey Kaleba for Spamalot and Almost, Maine at The Theatre Lab, (Summer 2021)
• Performed broadsword demonstration with Tooth & Claw Combat Arts at the Folger Theatre, Shakespeare's Birthday (April 2019)

Attended SAFD Regional Workshops:

• Scenic City Slam 2024 (Chattanooga, TN), 2024
  
• Tourist Trap (Orlando, FL), January 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024
• Fight Choreo Track, Summer Sling (NYC), August 2023
• Philadelphia Stage Combat Workshop, November 2022
• TXI for BLM, Sept 2020 (virtual)
• Social Distance Showdown, May 2020 (virtual)
• Virginia Beach BASH, March 2019, 2023