Karen Leigh Sharp

Karen Leigh Sharp was born to a Tennessee Williams-esque emotionally unstable southern mother, Montine Powell (an orphan from Moultrie, Georgia), and to her fun-loving father, Robert Beckelhymer, from Chatsworth, California, an insurance underwriter, who brought the spark of play into their turbulent home life in San Jose, California.Karen's stage debut (at the age of 6) was the role of an emotionally unstable queen, where she accidentally became hooked on the acting drug while blurting out bottled up emotions of sadness, anger and humor, all of which set her free. From then on the theatre became a safe refuge to explore her authentic emotions.With acting in her blood, but no money for formal training, Karen's, first job was at a 6-screen drive-in movie theatre, hired to squirt soft drinks into cups from a hose at the snack bar. After her shift, she'd climb the scaffolding up to the marque to study actors on the big screen, eat free popcorn, and critique with the pigeons.Upon g... [Details Intro]