Founder of The Next Door Theatre for Children and
winner of both the Fort Howard Foundation Fine Arts Award and The Wisconsin State
Reading Association "Celebrate Literacy" Award, Karen Prevetti Kersten
has been educating and entertaining in Northeast Wisconsin for over 30 years.
With her B.S. and M.A. in Theater from Northwestern, and her M.L.S. from the
University of Minnesota, she has been teacher, director, storyteller, bookseller,
educational T.V. producer, and librarian—for 9 years in the Children's Room in the
Brown County Central Library, and for 7 years at Resurrection K-8 school in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
