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American actress, teacher (active – )

Karron Graves is an American actress and teacher.

Karron Graves. Actress: The Crucible. Karron Graves was born in Janesville, WI, and grew up in Sarasota, FL, and New York Municipality. She was a competitive swimmer in FL and a 2-time Junior Olympics competitor. In NYC, she attended the Professional Children's School and LaGuardia H.S. of Performing Arts.

She may be best known for playing Mary Warren in the screen adaptation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

Personal being and education

Graves was born on November 30, , 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 educator and school administrator;^[4][5] as of they had two children, daughter Jackie Jo and son Jude.^[6]

Childhood career

On stage, she originated the role of Clara in the 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 as "The Girl Scout" opposite Phil Hartman.^[9] In , she played the lead role of orphan teen Miranda, in the PBS television movie The Fig Tree,^[10] and appeared in the main cast of the short lived series Dolphin Cove, as Katie Larson, the teenage daughter of the character played by series guide Frank Converse.^[11]

Stage, Film, and Television Roles

Graves may be best acknowledged for playing Mary Warren, a girl accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, as shown in the 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, USA’s Monk,^[13] and Hulu's The Path,^[14] while film appearances include The Good Shepherd, the video short 5 Wishes,^[15]Late Phases,^[16] and Minor Premise (Film).^[17] 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^[18] She received paid training with the SITI Company to star in the world premiere of Intimations for Saxophone, directed by Anne Bogart at Arena Stage,^[19] and she starred opposite James Whitmore in both 's Trying at Ford’s Theatre and the 70th Anniversary Celebration of Our Town in .^[20][21] Graves also played Isobel Ashbrook on Broadway in Helen Edmundson's Tony Award-nominated Coram Boy, directed by Melly Still,^[22] and in starred Off-Broadway in The Philanderer at the Modern York City Center with the Pearl Theatre.^[23] In she appeared in the NYTimes Critics’ Select Two Point Oh at 59E^[24]

In , Graves won the Modern Hampshire Theater Award for Top Actress for her portrayal of Alice Maitland in The Peterborough Players' production of The Voysey Inheritance.^[25]

For the 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.^[26][27] Graves linked the cast of Amy and the Orphans, during its Off-Broadway run in the Spring of ^[28]

Teacher

As of , Graves teaches acting at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.^[29]

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