Dizzia, Lucas Join LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR Reading

Maria Dizzia (In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, Rachel Getting Married) will join Craig Lucas (Light in the Piazza, Reckless, Prelude To A Kiss) in AliveWire Theatrics' reading of Chana Porter's Leap And The Net Will Appear. Lucas will direct the reading, which takes place this evening at 7pm at the 9th Space theater, located at 150 1st Avenue (home of Performance Space 122) in NYC. For more information on the company visit http://www.AliveWireTheatrics.com.

Chana Porter's Leap And The Net Will Appear is part of AliveWire Theatrics' Dark-Night Reading Series: Sparks in the Dark. The series concludes March 21 at 7pm with Daniel McClung's Paper Nautilus, directed by Josh Hecht. Admission is complimentary. RSVP to SparksintheDark@AliveWireTheatrics.com

Margie goes to Bali, Italy and India to find herself...but she's not in any of those places. Leap And The Net Will Appear asks why be human if you don't want to be?

The cast includes Maria Dizzia, Ron Cohen, Quinlan Corbett, Corinne Edgerly and George Olesky.

Chana Porter is a playwright, co-founder of AliveWire Theatrics, and an avid collaborator. Her play, Besharet, is currently receiving its World Premiere by AliveWire Theatrics at the 9th Space theater, under the direction of Scott Rodrigue. Her play Bird On A Wire, based on the life of the poet Gertrude Halstead, was developed at Dixon Place in 2010 where she was an artist-in-residence. She was a finalist for both the Juilliard Artist's Diploma and Yale's M.F.A in Playwriting in 2010. Book one of Chana's first graphic novel, The Ruthie Chronicles, with artist Delia Gable, will be published this summer. Currently Chana is in development with film director Kevan Tucker (The Unidentified) for their upcoming feature film, a love song to the city of Worcester, MA. Her other plays include Cannibals and Leap And The Net Will Appear.

AliveWire Theatrics is an upstart theater company dedicated to developing and producing art that is connective, charged and current. Led by playwright Chana Porter and director Scott Rodrigue, AliveWire assembles new work to amplify current situations among an expanding network of artistic collaborators and new audiences. The company is dedicated to discovering and implementing new and evolving models to make these projects happen.

AliveWire Theatrics' World Premiere of Chana Porter's Besharet continues through March 27 at the 9th Space theater. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.9thspace.org or by calling 212-352-3101.