About Me

An award-winning writer/filmmaker, KAREN THORSEN began her career as an editor for Simon & Schuster, a journalist for Life Magazine, and a foreign correspondent for Time Magazine. In 1989, as culmination of a long association with the renowned Maysles Films, Thorsen wrote, produced and directed the internationally praised feature-length documentary, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, which premiered on PBS/American Masters. Thorsen’s second co-production with PBS/American Masters “scheduled to premiere in 2009” is Joe Papp in Five Acts. Other recent productions include an Intimate Portrait for Lifetime Television, a three-part series for the History Channel, segments of a weekly series for The Learning Channel and a documentary film history of the Pilgrims, now a permanent installation at Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, MA.