Kara McLane Burke (Founding Member, Director) is a native of Westfield, NJ and graduate of James Madison University. She toured for several years as actor/Road Manager/Director with the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, before happily settling down in Charlottesville to work with Foolery and marry Christopher Burke and raise their daughter Haley Marie. She is a founding member of Performers Exchange Project, which co-produced The Charlottesville Wunderkammer in 2006.

Outside Foolery: Ever in the debut of Sky No Sky by Savitri Durkee in NYC; For Shenandoah Shakespeare- Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, the Fool in King Lear and Luce in Knight of the Burning Pestle; For Live Arts, The Seagull, Boston Marriage, and Our Lady of 121st St.

Kara@foolery.org