Biography

I started as an actor, and began to write after playing many leading roles Off-Broadway and becoming Associate Director of CSC Repertory in New York. My plays have been performed Off-Broadway, in regional theaters, on a USA tour, and in eleven countries in seven languages. A dozen are published; sixteen more are online. Actors Theatre of Louisville, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Peoples Light & Theatre, The Acting Company and Cheltenham Center commissioned and produced plays from me. Abbey National Theatre, Ireland; Ankara State Theatre, Turkey; Aalborg State Theatre, Denmark; and City Theatre, Finland, produced my plays and musical. Like any actor, I love telling stories that bridge divides - between the sexes, cultures, countries, past and present worlds.
- IMDb mini biography by: Karen Sunde

Shozo Sato and her play, "Kabuki Lady Macbeth", at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work.

Sunde quote: "Theater's purpose is to create from any group that gathers, a community celebrating itself. It tells us Who we are and that we are Together. When it works, it's magic. And holy.".

Known for quote: "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven" (from 2nd Ode in her play Kabuki Othello).

How His Bride Came To Abraham screenplay: an Official Selection at Oaxaca Film Festival, 2018.

I'm a story-teller. Life fascinates me, so I portray it in any form it seems to call for. Off-Broadway I got to play many great roles, and by then I was writing - action-adventure, Sci-Fi, romance, comedy, bio-pics, musicals, drama - from anytime or anywhere for anyone who needed a good story told. Twelve of my plays have been published, performed in eleven countries in seven languages, but there's always more people to write for, more audience to reach. And I love it.