Park is represented by AM&T in Atlanta.

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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 and 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 of 25 year old, 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 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, transgender and non-binary writers around the world, giving them obstructions pulled from Shelley‘s life or from her novel, Frankenstein 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 with compassion at heart. 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, shetaught English to Buddhist nuns of all ages over zoom. And in response to the wish of a young nun, is co-authoring her story of the indomitable spirit of a young girl who survived and is now thriving. (Though this humble nun would never say that about herself). Park heads back to India in March to continue filming the documentary and help set up the research lab.

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