Karen Lynn Gorney - Official Web site

APPEARANCES:

THE 15TH ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL SATURDAY, MAY 29th CABARET THEATER

located at 155 1st Avenue, between East 9th and East 10th Streets

Theater for the New City - 15th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts Film & Video Festival

Theater for the New City - Directions to Theater for the New City
6:20pm CREATING KARMA, 90 min( Q&A)
Director: JILL WISOFF.

Uptight Manhattanite and corporate climber, Karma, becomes a poet after losing her
cushy fashion magazine job for turning thirty, moving in with her eccentric new-age
therapist sister and meeting Mr. Wrong, the owner of the local poet's cafe.

Featuring: Karen Lynn Gorney, Carol Lee Sirugo, Jill Wisoff, Joe Grifasi.

Monday, April 5th 7:00pm
Frog and Peach Theatre Company Spring Gala Karen Lynn, a founding member who last appeared as "Margaret" in Richard III appears at the Benefit for Manhattan's premiere Shakespeare ensemble as they celebrate their 17th season !

Frog and Peach Theatre Company
Professor Thom’s Loft
219 2nd Avenue (between 13th and 14th Streets)

For tickets click here! or www.frogandpeachtheatre.org
Enjoy food, drink, raffles, rocking tunes, good company !

“Saturday Night Fever – The Inside Story” is scheduled to air on Wednesday, March 17th at 9:00 p.m. EST/6:00 p.m. Pacific on A & E’s Biography Channel. Karen Lynn and others from the Film are interviewed.

Karen Lynn Gorney at From Paris With Love Premiere:

Click below and check out Karen's recent pilot for a series: "From Geek to Guido" on youtube...hysterical!

Karen Lynn Gorney stars in CREATING KARMA
CREATING KARMA East Coast Primiere Nov. 19
Coming to dvd soon: for info see Facebook site: Creating Karma

Karen Lynn Gorney, dancing diva co-star of Saturday Night Fever, is the top billed star in the new comedy feature CREATING KARMA having its US Theatrical premiere the week of Oct. 16 in the role of Chanel "Fields" Fontaine, Karma's glamorous, shopaholic mother.

NewsTimes.com Hearst newspapers Nov.2009: Interview with Jill Wisoff, director

"I understand Karen Lynn Gorney (best known for her role as John Travolta's dancing partner Stephanie Mangano in 1977's "Saturday Night Fever") is in the cast. What was it like to work with her? Is there anything about her that fans would be surprised to learn?

Karen (who plays a shopaholic British woman named Chanel) doesn't have that strong Brooklyn accent that we all remember her with in "Saturday Night Fever." It was all acting. She is a very accomplished actress and was a dream to work with."

CREATING KARMA PRESS RELEASE:

Karma, uptight fashion editor, becomes a poet after losing her job and moving in with her wacky new-age therapist sister in this first time feature by Jill Wisoff. While the film gives a nod to the sixties Peter Sellars screwball farces “The Party” and “I love you Alice B. Toklas”, it's to be enjoyed for its corny borscht belt humor and New York locales familiar in the works of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen.

Creating Karma is a truly indie film with a screenplay by and co-starring Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo, a cast of over one hundred including top billed dancing diva co-star of "Saturday Night Fever" fame Karen Lynn Gorney, esteemed character actor Joe Grifasi and talented newcomers. Catchy songs by Jill Wisoff ("Welcome to the Dollhouse" songs/score, co-star in Todd Solondz's "Fear, Anxiety & Depression") and music by Joel Diamond (Sundance Winner “The Believer”, “Milarepa”).

Winner of two best comedy feature awards including the 2008 Best Feature Award at the Broad Humor Film Festival. Comedy

Publicity quote by the 2008 Broad Humor Festival:
"This manic Bollywood-style romp from the 60's era of free love to contemporary pseudo-spiritual philosophy is big-screen farce full of fun!"

Official LA Splash Review:
“Farce is a genre where, if you do it right, your movie ebbs and flows comfortably between the ridiculous and the outrageous. And farce in full force is what you will get with the comedy feature Creating Karma. The montage cross dissolving motif employed in the film serves well to toy with time and add a healthy touch of the dreamscape surreal. Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo are co-writers and co-stars in this “boobs to the wall” comedy with Wisoff also tackling director duties. CREATING KARMA was awarded BEST FEATURE in the 2008 Broad Humor Film Festival.”

Neil Pedly for ifctv.com:
“With the rancid taste of the unmitigated comedy disaster that was "The Love Guru" still fresh in viewer's mouths, it's a brave person (or in this case, two) that would bring campy sitar players and kooky New Age therapy back to the big screen so soon. A directorial bow for musician and composer Jill Wisoff, this quirky comedy finds a well-to-do fashion magazine editor (co-writer Carol Lee Sirugo) undergoing a radical transformation into a poet when she moves in with her hippie half-sister (Wisoff).”