New Hampshire Theatre Project to Open 27th Season with HOT MAMA MAHATMA

New Hampshire Theatre Project kicks off their 27th season with Hot Mama Mahatma, written and performed by Karen Fitzgerald, the actress formerly known as Karen Abrami. Karen graced Seacoast stages for 15 years, in dozens of lead roles with some of the area's top actors, before heading south to New York City in 2004. While there, she wrote Hot Mama Mahatma, a comedy about her post divorce adventures. The tagline? "She went to India to get enlightened but got turned on instead!" Besides playing to sold out audiences, Hot Mama Mahatma won the Producer's Award at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in Manhattan.

Before re-locating to New York, Karen played a wide range of characters around the Seacoast: The Witch in Into The Woods, Mama Rose in Gypsy, Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha, Mrs. Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Dolly in Hello Dolly, Golde in Fiddler on the Roof (twice, with Bill Humphreys), and Agnes in I Do, I Do with Peter Motson. She played everything from prostitutes to nuns, young marrieds to old dowagers, which may be why Genevieve Aichele cast her in the Music Hall's 125th Anniversary Celebration! In her spare time, Karen also served on the Music Hall's Board of Directors for three years and sang as a featured soloist with the popular gospel group, The Funky Divas of Gospel, with Jim MacDougall.

While living in New York, Karen has expanded her reach to help other people emerge into their own possibility, becoming a life coach and motivational keynote speaker. She followed up her production of Hot Mama Mahatma with several sold out performances at the Metropolitan Room of The Goddess Revue: The Journey of Turned On Women!, an adult fairy tale told through song, dance and burlesque about a woman emerging into her sexy freedom. Karen has been featured in two books on fearless women: Fearless Women, Visions of a New World and In Her Power by Helene Lerner, from which she was a featured guest on the public television special of the same name.

This past year Karen did a popular webinar, Dancing With Desire, for the international media company, Hay House, and most recently was a guest speaker at the Gratitude and Trust Summit, with Academy Award and Grammy Winner, Paul Williams speaking about Reinventing Yourself from the Inside/Out.

Hot Mama Mahatma is sponsored by Crystal Delights/VirtuallyAbout. Tickets are now on sale and going fast!