American actress, teacher (active 1987– )
Karron Graves on the
High Line in
Manhattan (2015)
Karron Graves is an American actress and teacher. She may be best known for playing
Mary Warren in the 1996 screen adaptation of
Arthur Miller ’s
The Crucible , starring
Daniel Day-Lewis .
Personal life and education
Graves was born on November 30, 1973, in
Janesville, Wisconsin , and spent her childhood in both
Sarasota, Florida , and
New York City . As a young child, Karron was a competitive swimmer and a 2-time
Junior Olympics competitor.
[1] She received her
Bachelor of Arts from
Princeton University
[2] and her
Master of Fine Arts from the
Yale School of Drama .
[3]
She lives in New York with her husband, Rolando Briceno, a teacher and school administrator;
[4]
[5] as of 2015 they had two children, daughter Jackie Jo and son Jude.
[6]
Childhood career
On stage, she originated the role of Clara in the 1987 world premiere of
Arthur Miller ’s Danger:Memory! at
Lincoln Center Theater , directed by
Gregory Mosher .
[7] Other early stage roles included Ginya in Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians at
Manhattan Theatre Club .
[8]
She made her television debut on
Saturday Night Live in 1986 as "The Girl Scout" opposite
Phil Hartman .
[9] In 1987, she played the lead role of orphan girl Miranda, in the
PBS television movie The Fig Tree ,
[10] and appeared in the main cast of the short lived 1989 series
Dolphin Cove , as Katie Larson, the teenage daughter of the character played by series lead
Frank Converse .
[11]
Stage, Film, and Television Roles
Graves may be best known for playing
Mary Warren , a girl accused of witchcraft during the
Salem witch trials , as shown in the 1996 film
The Crucible , starring
Daniel Day-Lewis and
Winona Ryder ; a review in
People cited Graves for her "quietly moving performance".
[12] Other television appearances include episodes of NBC’s
Law & Order ,
[13] CBS’s
Guiding Light and USA’s
Monk ,
[13] while film appearances include
The Good Shepherd , the video short 5 Wishes,
[14] and
Late Phases .
[15]
Graves' stage credits include
Broadway ,
Off-Broadway , and Regional Theatre productions. While at Yale, she originated the roles of Dora Hand in
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ’s The Muckle Man , Lizzie Booth in Trip Cullman’s Absolutely True , Sara in A. Rey Pamatmat’s Deviant , and Blanche Verse in
Marcus Gardley ’s
...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi
[16] She received paid training with the
SITI Company to star in the 2005 world premiere of Intimations for Saxophone, directed by
Anne Bogart at
Arena Stage ,
[17] and she starred opposite
James Whitmore in both 2006's Trying at
Ford’s Theatre and the 70th Anniversary Celebration of Our Town in 2008.
[18]
[19] Graves also played Isobel Ashbrook on Broadway in
Helen Edmundson 's 2007
Tony Award -nominated
Coram Boy , directed by
Melly Still ,
[20] and in 2012 starred Off-Broadway in
The Philanderer at the
New York City Center with the
Pearl Theatre.
[21] In 2013 she appeared in the NYTimes Critics’ Pick Two Point Oh at
59E59 .
[22]
In 2015, Graves won the New Hampshire Theater Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Alice Maitland in The Peterborough Players' production of
The Voysey Inheritance .
[23]
For the 2015-2016 season at the
Roundabout Theatre Company , Karron played
Mamie Gummer ’s sister in the world premiere of
Lindsey Ferrentino ’s
Ugly Lies the Bone , directed by Patricia McGregor.
[24]
[25]
Teacher
As of 2015, Graves teaches acting at the
New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the
American Musical and Dramatic Academy .
[26]
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Twitter . Retrieved July 6, 2022 .
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