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Karen Dillon is a filmmaker, educator and arts administrator who is currently the Executive Director of the Chandler Center for the Arts.[1] Prior to coming to the Chandler, Dillon was the Executive Director of the Green Mountain Film Festival.[2]

Biography

Dillon was born in Ulysses, Kansas.[3] She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in photography and film, and her MFA in film writing, directing and producing from Columbia University.[3]


Dillon is also a film educator who has taught filmmaking and screenwriting at Columbia University, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Norwich University. She also lived in Abu Dhabi and worked at Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi Women's College teaching media to Emirate women. She was a founding partner and editor of the magazine, Blue Sky, Green Earth in Lawrence, Kansas.


She lives on a small farm in Riverton, Vermont and raises dairy goats and saffron.

Awards

Her film script, Birds With Teeth won a screenwriting award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[3]

References

  1. ^ Release, Press (2019-05-10). "Chandler welcomes new executive director Karen Dillon". VTDigger. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  2. ^ Mills, Stephen (August 17, 2017). "New film fest director just the right fit". Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Brunswick Publishing, LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "People". Sloan Science & Film. Retrieved 2019-05-12.


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