Actor

Karla Hartley is currently the President and Producing Artistic Director of  Stageworks Theatre and an adjunct professor at The University of Tampa.  She has directed, designed and performed in countless shows around the nation for the last 25 years.  Acting credits include Drew in Girl Bar, Gertrude Stein in Gertrude and Alice, the Stage Manager in Our Town,  Aunt Dan in Aunt Dan and Lemon, Eddie and Doctor Scott in The Rocky Horror Show, Jessie in ‘Night Mother and Roxanne in Morningside, for which she won the 2020 Theatre Tampa Bay award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and AnnaMarie in A Doll’s House Part 2, for which she won the same award in 2023.  In 2025, Karla played Shelly Williams in The People Downstairs and reprised the role of Roxanne in Morningside.