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APPEARANCES
"King John" Frog and Peach Theatre Company
"Karen Lynn Gorney plays King John's scheming mother Elinore of Aquitaine with just the right amount of tenderness and grit." JK Clarke, Theatre Pizzazz
"Karen Lynn Gorney , as King Johns, Elinore, is stern as steel as her son's eminence grise" (confidential behind the scenes power-agent) Curtain Up, Deirdre Donovan
"...The Queen mothers are wonderful, Karen Lynn Gorney and Amy Frances Quint..."
Sarah B. Roberts, Adventures
The Frog & Peach Theatre Company is very pleased to announce the Spring Title,
William Shakespeare's
King John!
Photo by Jonathan Slaff
Starring Amy Frances Quint, Eric Doss, Karen Lynn Gorney of Saturday Night Fever fame and ABC-TV's All My Children, and a host of your Frog & Peach favorites, King John is an exciting, action-packed treat!
King John leaps from the page with so much wit you could call it a comedy, so much pathos you could call it a tragedy, and so many colorful, ruthless, delightful people you could call it a soap opera--the plot reminds many of Game of Thrones.
With romance, intrigue, terrifying orders of execution, epic scenes of battle, and some of Shakespeare's most beautiful language, King John is an action-packed treat,
and a great way to get to know our pal, William Shakespeare.
You are going to love this show!
April 24-May 18, 2014
Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 7:30
Sundays at 3 pm
at the beautiful
West End Theatre
263 W 86th St., NYC
Tickets are on sale now!
Click here to go to smarttix.com
or phone 212 868 4444
Click here to see the splashy press getting at Broadway World!.
Karen Lynn is the Widow "Delores" in LATE PHASES - visit Late Phases (2014) - IMDbPro
Karen Lynn stars as "The Television Reporter" in The Testimony of Erin J., see trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ZDBz35D9w, shown on Saturday, April 5th at 8PM at Dante Hall in Atlantic City: http://goo.gl/C2s07p
Official Selection of the 2014 Garden State Film Festival
shown on Saturday, April 5th at 8PM at Dante Hall in Atlantic City: http://goo.gl/C2s07p
Some recent Stage Reviews:
Karen Lynn is a Member of the Famed Irish Repertory Company Off B'way:
The Field, IRISH REP COMPANY, OFF B"WAY NEW YORK REVIEW: NY Theatre.com August 2006: Karen Lynn Gorney gives perhaps the finest performance of all (one of the very best I can ever recall seeing, in fact) as Dandy McCabe's wife, "Mrs. Dandy McCabe." With economy and humility, Gorney lets us into the heart and soul of this touching woman just by letting us see her laugh, carelessly hold onto her husband's hand, or reach thoughtlessly for her hat when she's suddenly startled.
Gorney's work is indicative of the overall excellence of this production, due in no small part to the fine direction of Ciaran O'Reilly (who went on in the play's final role of William Dee at the performance reviewed). Great care, thought, and respect has gone into the creation of every aspect of this show...
Shakespeare's KING JOHN : late last year Karen Lynn starred at the Arc Light Theatre Off B'way, winning rave reviews as "Constance of Brittany."
From Artzine Online:
"As the grief-stricken Constance in her "mad scene," Karen Lynn plays with powerful Zen eloquence: "My name is Constance; I was Geoffrey's wife; Young Arthur is my son and he is lost." The aforementioned Geoffrey is the murdered Richard I (Goeffrey Plantagenet), and Arthur her just murdered adolescent son - the legal heir to the throne. Karen Lynn Gorney played the distraught Constance, first with understatement, then with fire. She has a clarion control of emotional effect. The venom was palpable in her rebuttal to King Philip "He talks to me that never had a son!" There was real moment in her "...let kings assemble" speech from Act 3.
"Backstage.com (Off B'way): "Karen Lynn Gorney is touching as Constance, Arthur's bereft mother"
Karen Lynn starred in The 3rd Gender Off B'way late summer at the Connelly Theatre. .
Zachari Productions presents the world premiere of the sci-fi drama THE 3RD GENDER as part of this summer's 17th Annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. Director-playwright Peter Zachari returns to the Fringe Festival after his successful extended-run production of PARKER & DIZZY'S FABULOUS JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE RAINBOW with this futuristic thriller. The production is set for The Connelly Theater.Read more about Karen Lynn Gorney to Lead Sci-Fi Drama THE 3RD GENDER at FringeNYC
broadwayworld.com (article )
The summer before last, Karen Lynn starred as "Judy Garland" (if she had lived!), singing: "Rainbow Lullaby," at THE PLAYERS THEATRE at 115 MacDougal Street, right in the heart of the Village in Karen Lynn's first Off B'way Musical Comedy: "PARKER & DIZZY’S FABULOUS JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE RAINBOW." The show was EXTENDED! THRU September 2011. David Kennerley called the show, "A joyous, loopy romp-precisely the kind of show you dream of discovering..."
www.parkeranddizzy.com
May-June 2013, Karen Lynn LATE PHASES as the Widow "Delores," in Upstate New York.
Early May, Karen starred as the "Gypsy Card Reader" in The Buffalo Kid, selected for the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival playing on the first night of the festival, at the Tribeca Cinemas, and simultaneously in Lisbon.
Karen Lynn appears as in the Mockumentary Film 100 Years of Evil
See 100YOE | Official Movie Site for more info!
 CAN'T DANCE won the Founders' Choice Award at the Queens World Film Festival
KAREN LYNN filming "Can't Dance" in Astoria, New York last summer: An Independent Comedy.
KAREN LYNN filming "Can't Dance" in Astoria, New York this summer: An Independent Comedy.
Karen Lynn Gorney as "Elizabeth", the civil rights lawyer in
The Imperialists Are Still
Alive!
Directed by: Zeina Durra
Karen's new film "The Imperialists are Still Alive" was seen on Time Warner Movie Channel: IFC in THEATERS and on Cable-Vision (Optimum), Movies on Demand, New Releases.
 
see: Amazon.com: Karen Lynn Gorney Movies & TV on DVD & Blu-ray
RECEIVE A TELEPHONE CALL FROM KAREN LYNN GORNEY PERSONALLY:
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 Premiere Nov. 19, on dvd:
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, British, 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.” |
Recent News
March 3rd at 8:00 PM: Karen Lynn stars in the Award winning film CAN'T DANCE at The Jackson Heights Cinema.
This film is the first section of a new film about romance.It is shown as part of the
Queens World International Film Festival at the Museum of The Moving Image.
the Queens World Film Festival 2012 :: Films
See http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/156851/queens-film-festival-gives-credit-to-local-talent
Karen Lynn Gorney as "Lady Belaria" in Shakespeare's
Cymbeline at the West End Theatre in New York 2010
“Saturday Night Fever – The Inside Story” aired on March 17th on A & E’s Biography Channel. Karen as "Lucy DeFrisco" in film Bronx Paradise last season
CREATING KARMA played at THE 15TH ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL SATURDAY, MAY 29th located at 155 1st Avenue, between East 9th and East 10th Streets
Featuring: Karen Lynn Gorney, Carol Lee Sirugo, Jill Wisoff, Joe Grifasi.
Karen Lynn Gorney as "Marlene Dietrich" at the TRIAD, NYC Nov. 2009
Karen Lynn Gorney stars in CREATING KARMA:
East Coast Premiere! November 13-19, 2009 Bethel Cinemas
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Karen Lynn Gorney played "Mrs. Heart" in a new play for Karen's first ever famous New York City Fringe Festival
Writer: Tim J. MacMillian
Director: Sally Burtenshaw
Summer 2009
FRINGE FESTIVAL: BREATHE
New School Theatre
151 Bank St (West "Washington) |
RICHARD III
KAREN LYNN GORNEY played "Mad MARGARET" this season in Richard III Off B'way with ANATOL YUSEF, a marvelous RICHARD III. He recently appeared with THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’S critically acclaimed KING LEAR, (starring the legendary CORIN REDGRAVE). Check out this fine young actor’s work in the hit film LAST ORDERS, with MICHAEL CAINE, BOB HOSKINS, and HELEN MIRREN. Frog and Peach Theatre Company Inc.
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November 7, 2009 7:00 PM
Mickey B Presents
Saturday Night Disco Fever
Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts 
Starring: Karen Lynn Gorney (Special Appearance) - The Trammps - Harold Melvin's Blue Notes - France Joli - Sweetwater Orchestra - Phil Francavilla
Dance Contest and John Travolta Look Alike Contest
Information:Tickets, Rules and Entry Forms
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Mickey B
Mickey's Entertainment & Promotions
(516) 822 - 9612
www.mickeyb.com |
The Great Singers of the Big Bands:
Karen Lynn Gorney sings and narrates
Bendheim Matinees 2009 Season
Sentimental Journey: November 11, 2009, Wed. 3pm
The Great Singers of the Big Bands
Scarsdale, New York, 914-472-3300 ext. #403
www.thebendheim.org
Karen Lynn Gorney
Perennial Bendheim favorites, singers Wendy Kimball and Sean Mahony, accompanied by the Mark Toback Trio, pay tribute to that most wonderful era of popular music: the Big Band Era. |
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Saturday, May 3, 2009
Karen Lynn Gorney appears at the Classic Disco Night in Tom's River, New Jersey to raise money for Alzheimer's Awareness.
March 11, 2009
Eine Kleine Café: Bendheim Performing Arts Center
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| Karen Lynn Gorney narrates and sings Yip Harburg's "Adrift on a Star" from the musical: The Happiest Girl in the World. |
December 3, 2008 Karen Lynn Gorney narrated and sang:
Make Someone Happy: The Music of Jule Styne:
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Karen Lynn just played "Frances Foley" in the new Black Comedy MONSTERFACE Off B'way at The Irish Arts Center that opened June 6, 2008.
11/16: Karen Lynn
opened Off B'way in the crazy comedy theatre piece "The
Merry Wife of Windsor" ; a send up of the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor (played by Ms Gorney)written by John
Hart,
at the Sonnet Theatre, NYC..
Below
Karen Lynn as "Duchess of Windsor" with Duke, Queen
of England, and Art Dealer as Maid
Karen
stars in "CREATING KARMA" just
chosen for the world renown Portobello Film Festival in London, U.K. info :
www.creatingkarma.com also
chosen as TOMI FILM
FESTIVAL Selection Feb 14-16 2008 Zeitgeist Theatre,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Watch for Karen's 7 recent films: "Therapy,"
"Creating Karma," "George," "A Crime" with Harvey Keitel,
"100 Years of Evil," " Liars and Lunatics," and
Wayne Gurman's award winning black comedy
screenplay "Bronx Paradise."
YouTube - Wacky Woodstock hippie water birth! Karen Lynn
Gorney Stars in
CREATING KARMA, an Award Winner at the Brilliant Light
International Film Festival of Los Angeles, screened at
CANNES in the 2007 MARCHE DU FILM. Jill Wisoff Director.
 Karen's
film Searching for Bobby D. with Carmen Electra, and Sondra Bernhard is playing to raves all over
the country and internationally at Festivals.
Available on DVD.
Karen Stars in Creating Karma:
Chosen as one of only two features to be included in the Gem City Film Festival down in Palatka (historically known as Gem City), Florida. A small but quirky film festival in an artsy community near Ocala, St. Augustine, Gainesville, the festival runs the weekend of January 19th.
CREATING KARMA, a comedy by first time feature director Jill Wisoff, will make its Los Angeles Film Festival premiere at the Brilliant Light International Film Festival:
Friday, March 2nd
7:30 pm
Raleigh Studios-Chaplin Theater
Karen Lynn Gorney Live at
the The Bendheim:
Wednesday, February 14, at 1 p.m.
"IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO" Narrated by actress/dancer Karen Lynn Gorney: Bendheim Performing Arts Center.
Karen's film Therapy written and directed by Gerald Schoenewolf
is an Official Selection of the NEWFILMMAKERS SERIES, New York City
February 7, 2007.
Karen stars in Creating Karma which played on Oct 8th at
the 6th Annual Coney Island Film Festival and it continues in Festivals all over the USA.
December 2005, Karen Lynn danced in a new Opera, based on "IL Trouvatore" called "Wellspring" developed in New York City for Off B'way in an all solo dancing role based on the mythic character "AZUCENA," for the Hourglass Theatre Company.
December 2005, Karen Lynn danced in a new Opera, based on "IL Trouvatore" called "Wellspring" developed in New York City for Off B'way in an all solo dancing role based on the mythic character "AZUCENA," for the Hourglass Theatre Company.
 All My Children's "Tara" and "Phil" together again!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOVEMBER 2005, Karen Lynn Gorney and Richard Hatch appeared at the Big Apple National! at Hotel Pennsylvania opposite Madison Square Garden in New York City.
 Feb. 17 Karen Lynn appeared at the the 35th Anniversary Re-Union Party for ALL MY CHILDREN on "Soap Talk" on Disney's Soap Network. Karen is "Tara Martin," a role she originated. It aired Feb 17 nationally, (while Karen was in LA at the Hollywood Collector Show!) Celebrating with Karen Lynn- Susan Lucci, "Erica" -Tara's mortal enemy since High School, Agnes Nixon, Creator of ALL MY CHILDREN; Ray MacDonnell (Tara's Dad, "Joe Martin") and of course, Richard Hatch-"Phil," "Tara's" long lost love. Click
here for pictures from this event!
Mar 2, Karen Hosted The Matinee Show Series "That Old Arlen Magic" the Music of Harold Arlen with The Pianolino Plus Chamber Orchestra at the Bendheim Performing Arts Center, Scarsdale, New York. Karen sings "It's Only a Paper Moon" and "Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe." (Lyricist ,Yip Harburg)
Karen Lynn starred as "Olivia" in Twelfth
Night, August 2004 with the NorthEast Shakespeare Ensemble.Karen was featured in Boston Globe on 8/15/04 about her performance. production of "Twelfth Night." Click
here to read the article.
 Through Feb 2004 Karen was in residence at Bristol Riverside Theatre near Philadelphia, where she starred as "Mrs. Antrobus" in Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning dark comedy SKIN
OF OUR TEETH.
In January, Karen was interviewed on Television's Soap Talk on the Disney Soap Network; and on the Radio on Bonnie Grice show The Song is You that aired Karen's music in New York and California. Read the press kit by clicking
here. (Microsoft Word Needed)
Last fall and through this spring-Karen has been appearing and performing as Narrator and Singer to sold out crowds at the Bendheim Theatre in Scarsdale doing a Harry Warren Show, a Richard Rogers Show; and a show called Shall We Dance, where she narrates the history of Dance forms, and dances with Joey L. to Roberto Pagan's New Hustle Choreography.
Late last fall-
Karen was one of the Guests sharing the stage with Lynn
Redgrave, Chita Rivera, Mary Tyler Moore, Cyd Charisse,
Leslie Brown (Turning Point), Jacques d'Amboise, Bebe
Neuwirth, Rosie Perez, Jane Powell, and Ester Williams at
the City Center Dance Concert Benefit for Dancers.
Last Season
Karen Lynn performed her one woman HOT MOONLIGHT! Show a number of times at Chez Suzette in New York City and regaled sold out crowds with stories about her famous composer father Jay Gorney (Brother Can You Spare a Dime, You're My Thrill) while singing all the songs on her new HOT MOONLIGHT! CD of her Dad's hits which was released to rave reviews last year and is now on sale in stores and on this website in the autograph store: below are some of the reviews-
In Tune, International "...updated, hard driving, swift versions of songs...Karen really has her way with these songs. Excitement is in the air at all times...she sings her very heart out."
Variety:
"Gorney...has a good stage manner...in her musical
performance she really scores. Her interpretations are often
jazzy in nature, which suits her voice well...numbers are
performed with an engaging lilt. Gorney has a background as
an actress...and is ready to branch out."
LA Times:
"...Saturday Night Fever made Gorney an instant movie
star...judging from her performance...her singing...can be
classified as skilled."
The Evening
Bulletin: Poptalk (Philadelphia):
"...a voice- two parts flirtatious/vivacious and one part
sincere...
Brisk pacing, and inspired coloration...One can derive fair
pleasure from the skillful weave of (the) rhythmic bed.'
Stevenslants by
Gary Stevens:
"Her daddy, Jay Gorney, wrote hit melodies in the long ago
1930s, so daughter Karen Lynn laid down some tracks for a CD
in which she gave a 21 st Century treatment to pop's
output."
New York Sheet
Music Society:
It is hard to decide where to start in praising this
wonderful new CD:
Karen Lynn Gorney's terrific and individualistic style, or
her father, Jay Gorney's terrific contribution to the Great
American Songbook.
Both should come first! ... Karen has a wonderful balance of
mood and tempo in her selections. It comes as no surprise
that this is such a great album to listen to. Karen has been
a professional all her life and it really shows...she is
definitely her father's daughter, and she puts her own
individual interpretation into each and every song.
CD signing last winter: The Compact Disc Shoppe in Brooklyn
Karen appeared and signed her CD-USED TO LOVE YOU MADLY-her
own music and lyrics, rhythm guitar, vocals and harmonies
and band (recorded in London at Abbey Road, in New York and
Live from in Philly) written during the filming of Saturday
Night Fever in her trailer ("Stephanie's" thoughts and
feelings about love).
Karen also signed her newest CD THE DANCE OF THE
DEADLY'S-electro-funk trance dance music written by Andrew
McCann, lyrics and vocals and harmonies by Karen Lynn. Each
song is a different Deadly Sin! Also available on this
website. Listen to clips on the "Juke Box" in the autograph
store.
Let Me Turn You On "Dance Remix" This is the first song on
Karen's NEW Dance CD in stores and on the website in the
autograph store called "The Dance of the Deadly's." Visit
the Jukebox page to hear the whole clip! and clips from
Karen's other CD's.
Extensive article on Karen in TIME OUT MAGAZINE hit stands
Dec. 2003. Karen is featured in Time Out New York Magazine,
Issue #375 December 5-12. Click the following links to read
the article right here! Note: page one features an awesome
picture of Karen at the Odyssey Disco in the present time!
page one and
page two
Nov 23 Karen's HOT MOONLIGHT! CD. was on WOR am Radio at 12
midnight on Joe Franklin Show with interview.
On SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th 2003 Karen did the KTU Joe Causi radio show 103.5 AM New York City. Below are pictures of
Karen and Joe from this event. Pictures are in the KTU
studio. Thanks to Joe Causi for sending us these pictures of
Karen on the air!
NEWS ARCHIVES
May 19, 2003 Karen played the role of "Yvette" in The
Duchess and the Duke at the Stella Adler Theatre, New York
City.
Catching Up with AMC'S Karen Lynn Gorney, Soap Opera Weekly
magazine for April 8, 2003 posted an interview with Karen
about her role as Tara. Click
here to read it here online!
Karen performed on Staten Island Cable TV at the end of
March : "LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL" Show with Vito Piccone.
Karen sang two songs from her new CD HOT MOONLIGHT! with
pianist-husband Mark Toback, and talks about her Artwork and
gig at Chez Suzette April 5,13,14.
Karen's new CD "HOT MOONLIGHT!" is now available in stores,
and thru her website. See autograph area in the store.
People.com had an awesome interview with Karen and the rest
of the SNF gang! Click
here to be taken to the article.
Saturday Night Fever DVD release date: 10/08/02
Audio Commentary by the director and cast members and Karen
herself!
Article on Karen Lynn Gorney in the May 2002 Autograph
collector magazine. Karen is featured in the "10 Questions
with Karen Lynn Gorney" section. If you would like to read
Karen's article click the following pages.
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