Ward Morehouse III's HOUND DOG to Receive Reading in NYC

"Hound Dog," a gripping new two-character play by Ward Morehouse III, will have a closed reading at the T. Schreiber Studio, 151 West 26th Street on July 13.

The cast features Dorin Seymour as a veteran screenwriter and Hollywood acting coach and Katherine Boynton as a young actress and playwright.

Seymour, a graduate of Juilliard, is currently doing a one-man show about Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy. He has acted Off-Broadway and in many TV shows and films.

Boynton, a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, had the female comedic lead in Vaclav Havel's "The Pig" Off-Broadway, appeared in six plays staged by the Drama Desk Award-winning Godlight Theatre Company, and has worked in many respected theaters and in film and TV.

Morehouse has had two plays produced Off-Broadway, "If It Was Easy," co-authored by Broadway producer Stewart F. Lane and "The Actors" which became one of the longest-running Off-Broadway plays of the late 1980s. Morehouse is a former Broadway columnist with Reuters, New York Post, New York Sun and AM New York and author of 12 books on theater and grand hotels.

Alex Carmine is playing the voice of Elvis and the voice of the Hudson Theatre manager. He was the lead in the film "Laura Point" at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.

"Hound Dog," which is set in a an ornate but ramshackle old producer's apartment the Hudson Theatre, brings together two lost souls who help each other bring new life into their careers and lives.

The T. Schreiber Studio was started in 1969 by Terry Schreiber who directed the Tony Award-winning play "K2" on Broadway and many other plays Off-Broadway and regionally.