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Lunch event hosted by Harvard’s Office of the Arts to join Diane Paulus ‘88 and Karina Cowperthwaite ‘23 in conversation about professional careers in the arts to undergraduate students.

“We, as students, can be creators in our own communities and we can make the spaces if we want them,” said Cowperthwaite. “We don’t have to be bound by what people before us wrote.”

Feature on original play Ugly Feelings in the Harvard Gazette.

Podcast Interview on the creative process of writing and directing original play Ugly Feelings.

In April 2023, Harvard senior Karina Cowperthwaite debuted her first original play "Ugly Feelings" at the American Repertory Theater's Loeb Drama Center. As writer, director, and actor, she explored the complexity of growing up multiracial.

"There are a lot of questions about racial belonging that I've asked myself throughout my life that I've never answered. This play is my attempt at asking those questions. All I can hope is that it creates a conversation beyond the theatre."

“We have an all-Asian cast and we’re filling houses of audiences to see that cast, which has never happened before,” she said. “In terms of representation, to me it’s a really big step forward, especially on our campus.”

Feature on directing the Pan-Asian adaptation of Legally Blonde, Harvard’s first all-Asian musical cast, in the Harvard Crimson.