Park Krausen harkens from Milwaukee,Wisconsin and Hartford,

Connecticut then attended school at Brillantmont in Switzerland, then Emory University in Atlanta,

where she received a BA in theater and in French, began acting professionally and then continued her

education at CNSAD in Paris France, the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.

Relatively new to documentary filmmaking, Park is a story-teller, theater maker and actor with over 20

years of experience. In 2021, she produced, filmed, and acted in an unnamed web series directed by

Tinashe Kajese which has yet to be released, as the writer is trying to sell the script. Her theatrical

experience is extensive, acting in, teaching and directing Shakespeare, Beckett, other classics in addition

to devising, curating, directing and performing in new works.

For 10 years, she served as the producing Artistic Director Théâtre du Rêve, the only professional

Francophone theater company in the U.S. During her tenure, she commissioned new work from

Francophone writers investigating, among other things, the dynamic and complicated relationship

between France and America. She brought art to public spaces in Atlanta, collaborating with the High

Museum, Elevate Atlanta, international farmers markets, creating free immersive happenings, animating

spaces and neighborhoods in unexpected ways. She also co-created cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary

dialogues asking audiences to reflect on timely questions and dynamize collaborations between fashion,

theater, film, music and culinary artists as she did in SO COCO, around icon Coco Chanel.

She is happily based in Chicago, again where she co-created a live/covid-safe walking tour/performance

during the pandemic with Chicago Immersive called "Wander”.

Recently for Theatre Emory, Park curated and directed : Midnight Pillow (inspired by Mary Shelley's

creation of Frankenstein). The title is ripped from Shelley's own reference to writing Frankenstein as

"the spectre that haunted her Midnight Pillow". For the project, Park commissioned 12 short plays

from women and transgender writers from around the world, giving them obstructions pulled from

Shelley's life or from her Novel, Frankenstien and asked them all the question: "what happens in the act of

creation in that liminal space between dreams and consciousness"?

As a bilingual artist, she also serves as a translator for artists and humanitarians from Africa, France,

Canada, Haiti and Switzerland. She even served as a French coach and translator for Owen Wilson in

the pilot episode of LOKI.

At heart, Park is a storyteller/story sharer. Recently, she was granted the incredible honor and

opportunity to reveal and support the telling of the story of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s initiative to

foster the conversation between Buddhism and science and to share the stories of the remarkable

monastic scientists and academic scientists in the conversation. Since 2019, Park has traveled twice to

the Drepung Science and Meditation center, working with Dr. Nusslock and his colleagues, in

conjunction with the Emory Tibetan Science Initiative under the vision of HHDL and Geshe Lobsang

Tenzin Negi of Emory. As a lucid dreamer, she has become a subject of the monastic scientists’ research.

Since the start of the pandemic, she taught English to Buddhist nuns of all ages over zoom and works in

close collaboration with Ani Choyang. www.ParkKrausen.com.