Karina is an actor with a vision impairment from Wales. Karina trained at Liverpool Hope University and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre credits include: Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse), Curtain Up (Theatre Clwyd), As You Like It and Measure for Measure (Royal Shakespeare Company), Wait Until Dark (Original Theatre Company, UK Tour), The Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana (Hope Mill Theatre), In Water I’m Weightless (National Theatre Wales), Flower Girls (Graeae Theatre Company/New Wolsey Ipswich), On Blindness (Young Vic/Paines Plough), Crystal Clear (The Lowry) and The Fly (Royal Exchange Manchester). Film and Television: Foreign Skies (Channel 4), Off Their Rockers (ITV) and The Bill (Thames Television) Radio: SoloParentpals.com (Series 2-4, BBC Radio)

Karina is also an aerialist and began her career in 2012 when she answered a call out for disabled artists to train for the Paralympic Opening Ceremony. Karina continued her training full time with Green Top Circus in Sheffield and Circus Oz in Australia. Karina has performed with various circus companies such as Extraordinary Bodies and Rogue Play Theatre Company and also as a solo performer at The Cerebral Palsy World Games Opening Ceremony. Karina is a theatre maker, Clore Fellow, NLP Practitioner, Voice coach and audio description consultant.