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TV
As a member of the Writers Guild, Trott has developed pilots for Fox and NBC with Amy Intercaso Davis and Dawn Tarnofsky.
MUSEUMS
For the Smithsonian Museum’s America on the Move at the Museum of American History, Karen wrote monologues and dialogues and directed them as audio recordings that accompany life size dioramas in this 26,000 sq. ft. ground floor permanent exhibit.
Smithsonian America on the Move
WEBSITE/VIDEO GAME WRITER
Trott wrote for the immersive, interactive digital history game past/present, funded by the NEH and the Corporation for Public. past/present is a Silver Medal winner of the 2012 International Video Games award. She is also a staff writer for greenallowance.org, a creative, environmental website for kids, ages 6 - 12. pastpresent
EDUCATIONAL WRITER
Karen co-writes plays with Sari Bodi for Scholastic Magazine’s Storyworks, a monthly magazine read by more than 400,000 kids in grades 3-6. She and Sari also contribute to Scope, Scholastic’s language arts magazine for grades 6-8, and to Scholastic Common Core Reader’s: Grade 6 Supplement.
Scholastic Magazine: Storyworks