Karen Dillon (filmmaker)
Karen Dillon is a filmmaker, educator and arts administrator who is currently the Executive Director of the Chandler Center for the Arts. Prior to coming to the Chandler, Dillon was the executive director of the Green Mountain Film Festival.
Dillon is a film educator who has taught filmmaking and screenwriting at Columbia University, Princeton, and the University of Kansas. She worked in Abu Dhabi teaching film to women in college.
Her film script Perfect Attendance won the Gerhard Zuther Memorial Award in 1997. In 2001 her film script, Birds With Teeth won a screenwriting award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Personal life
Dillon was born in Ulysses, Kansas. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in film directing from Columbia University. She is married to film educator Stephen Pite. They live on a small farm in West Berlin Vermont.
