Life Member Karen has appeared onstage at BCP in assorted lunatic ensemble and lead roles including: Cockney Landlady, Drunken French Maid, Spanish Nurse, Dog, and the Tap Dancing Portrait of the Royal Family of Monaco in Lucky Stiff (2004). She also appeared as The Golden Goose in Jack and the Beanstalk (2004), Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (1997), Mavis in Stepping Out (1994), Sister Robert Anne in Nunsense (1994), and Chlorus in Olympus on My Mind (1992).

Offstage she has served as Assistant to the Director for Urinetown (2005), The Wizard of Oz (2003), Epic Proportions (2002), Gypsy (1998), Don't Dress for Dinner (1998); Sound for Epic Proportions (2002); Props for Aladdin (1997) and Other People's Money (1993).

Most recent roles outside of BCP include: Boz and the Bard Productions - Lady Macbeth, Lizzie Borden in the one-woman production of Miss Lizzie A. Borden Invites You to Tea, Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter, Sarah in Like Bees to Honey.  Favorite Roles performed in other venues include Georges Sand in the premier original production of Chopin and Sand at the Barn Theatre, Brigitta and Rosalina in the premier original production of The Great Hall with the Attic Ensemble, Aldonza in Man of LaMancha, Peter Pan, Sister Robert Anne in Nunsense, Marquise de Marteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, "Sonia" in Godspell, Trina in Falsettos, Mollie in The Mousetrap, Paquette in Candide, Alice Nutting/Edwin in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

By day, Karen is a Drama Teacher for the Jersey City Public Schools' Visual and Performing Arts High School Magnet Program.