Karen is an award-winning actress, writer, director, producer who lives in the New York/New Jersey area. She received her Master’s Degree in Scriptwriting for Television and Film from Regent University. She has been acting since the age of six with her first role playing Mary the mother of Jesus for her first-grade school concert. She has studied at some of New York’s finer schools: Lee Strasberg Institute and the Acting Studio; and has worked in such venues as Lincoln Center, playing Sondra in Lulubelle and Sydney on the Lower East Side, Carnegie Hall and Yale University, playing civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer in Scenes and Songs from Fannie Lou Hamer. She can also be seen in the webseries How We Do as Beatriz, a Jamaican wet nurse, and Sitting on Babies as the Grumpy Babysitter.
Karen’s indie film credits include Why Wait & After The Wait, where she won Best Actress and Best Inspirational at the (Christian Family Film Festival), Best Drama at (8 and Halfilm), Best Director at (Paris Film Festival), and Black Enough, Footsteps in the Rough, and Black Van.