STOP KISS Opens 7/9 At Rogue Machine Theater, Reception To Follow

The consequences of love can be horrifying, yet miraculously tender. Callie meets Sara and an astonishing chain of events is set into motion. This story pays homage to life's abrupt and unexpected transformations...to romance, and to the search for personal identity.

STOP KISS won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York production. Diana Son was awarded a Barilla Kerr Award for Playwrighting. This marks the third Los Angeles premiere production (following Steppenwolf playwright Lisa Dillman's HALF OF PLENTY and Pulitzer Prize nominee Adam Rapp's BINGO WITH THE INDIANS) for one of LA's newest (and already award winning) theatre companies, ROGUE MACHINE.

Diana Son had her most recent play, SATELLITES, premiere at the Public Theater. Her plays have been produced at over two dozen theatres throughout the U.S. including Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Delaware Theatre Company and Nora Theatre. Other plays include: BOY, FISHES and R.A.W. (Cause I'm a Woman) amongst others. Diana was the 2000-2001 NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and a visiting lecturer in playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. She has also served as a Co-Executive Producer on LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT and was a Story editor on THE WEST WING. Diana is a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild.

ELINA DE SANTOS (Director) helmed ROGUE MACHINE'S highly acclaimed world premiere production of RAZORBACK by John Pollono. For the Pasadena Playhouse, she directed VINCENT IN BRIXTON (Nicholas Wright); for the Pacific Resident Theatre, Clifford Odets' ROCKET TO THE MOON (LADCC Nominee for direction), Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN, Tennessee Williams' ORPHEUS DESCENDING, which garnered multiple awards including the top LADCC Award for performance, direction and production; the LA Premiere and multi-award winning SPEED THE PLOW by David Mamet, Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS, a nine month run of Clifford Odets' AWAKE AND SING! and PROOF (David Auburn). For the Ark Theatre Company, Ibsen's A Doll's House - LA Weekly nomination for Best Direction 2007, and for Theatre of Note, THEY'RE JUST LIKE US. Regional theatres: ORPHANS (OC Weekly Best Production, BSW Best Production, LADCC Best Production Nomination), ROMEO AND JULIET: Circus Verona (Ovation Nomination), Berkshire Theatre Festival, Deaf West Theatre, International City Theatre. Elina is a member of the Actors' Studio Playwrights' and Directors' Unit.

STOP KISS opens Thursday, July 9th (no performances July 11th & 12th) with reception to follow. The show will also run Friday, July 10th, and then every Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm through July 26th. Afterwards, August 2nd & 3rd and continuing Fridays & Mondays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm in rep with TREEFALL thru August 23, 2009. Check dates on website or call (323) 930-0747. ROGUE MACHINE in Theatre Theater is located at 5041 Pico Blvd., LA, CA 90019. Tickets are $25 and may be purchased by calling (323) 960-7774 or at www.roguemachinetheatre.com

OPENING Thursday, JULY 9, 2009 with reception to follow

(no performances July 11th & July 12th)

STOP KISS will also run Friday, July 10th, and then every

Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm through July 26th.

Afterwards, August 2nd & 3rd and continuing Fridays & Mondays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm in rep with TREEFALL thru August 23, 2009. Check dates on website or call the INFORMATION LINE: (323) 930-0747.

Closing: Monday, August 23, 2009
How:
For reservations call: (323) 960-7774 or visit www.roguemachinetheatre.com
How Much: Tickets are $25