THE PORCH A New Play By Kari Floren Will Receive A Private Industry Reading In NYC

La Vie Productions will present a private industry reading of The Porch, a new play by Kari Floren, on Monday, March 4, 2019 in NYC. Directed by Antoinette DiPietropolo, the presentation will take place at Sunlight Studios (321 W 44th Street).

The Porch follows four desperate souls all looking for a place to stop running. On one not-so-ordinary summer afternoon, three guests show up at the same bed and breakfast that the innkeeper eagerly wants to shutter. Just short of being physically coerced into staying open, he allows them to stay while leaving them to their own devices. The Porch (literally) soon turns private struggles into a public battleground in a naturalistic setting sweetened with delicate theatricality.

The presentation cast of The Porch will include Michelle Dawson (Mamma Mia!), Tim Ware (Kinky Boots), Zach Clark (Secret Theatre's King Lear), and Tanya Perez ("Orange Is the New Black").

The team for The Porch also includes Roger Murdock (incidental music), Cindi Rush (casting) and Richard A. Leigh (stage manager).

For more information, please contact rsvp@lavieproductions.com.

Kari Floren (Playwright) is an accomplished Off-Broadway playwright whose work includes: Revisiting Wildfire, If Wishes Were Horses, Voices of Swords and A Late Supper. Most recently she co-wrote the one act plays That Gorgon Girl and Fish Head Soup with Flora Doone. In addition, she has written the short plays Berserker, Annie Wins a Raffle and The Discount Countess. Her screenplay thriller, For Love of Mama, was a finalist in the Nantucket Film Festival. She also wrote the comedy, It's Magic! (a coming of age story for late, late bloomers) and co-wrote the family-friendly screenplays, Candy Kid and the Hobo King.

Antoinette DiPietropolo (Director). Credits as a director / choreographer include "America's Got Talent" (international tour), Big Apple Circus; a Pepsi, Grubhub, and Seamless Super Bowl promotion; Veggietales (national tour), Hairspray at the Argyle Theater, Scooby Doo Live (international tour), Nunsense at Flatrock Playhouse, Saturday Night Fever at Hilton Head Theater, Chicago, Jesus Christ Superstar and Annie at Fort Salem Theatre, Ragtime at Lyric Stage (nominated for 14 Theatre League Awards), Annie, Mamma Mia, and Nunsense at the John W. Engeman Theater. Credits as a choreographer, include With Glee Off-Broadway, FAME (national tour); Annie at the Muny, Ragtime at North Carolina Theater (Triangle Award "Best Choreographer"), Candide starring George Hearn and Rita Moreno; Grease, The Full Monty, Miracle on 34th Street, The Producers, A Christmas Story, The Music Man, Evita, South Pacific, Hairspray, and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at the John W. Engeman Theatre. DiPietropolo is the co-creator and choreographer of the Off-Broadway show Powerhouse, and the ongoing choreographer for the NYC bus tour, "The Ride."