COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY & More Set For Stage At Rogue Machine 5/1-6/7

Next up for award winning Rogue Machine (following their critically acclaimed inaugural season featuring the premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY, Brett Neveu's AMERICAN DEAD and John Pollono's RAZORBACK) is: HALF OF PLENTY by Steppenwolf playwright Lisa Dillman. This Los Angeles premiere is an oddly comic and chilling take on lean times and family values in America. Director Barbara Kallir helms a cast of 5 seasoned and award winning actors at ROGUE MACHINE main stage in Theatre Theater. MAY 1, - JUNE 7, 2009

FOUR PLACES by Joel Drake Johnson. A finalist for the National Arts Club Best Play 2006, FOUR PLACES was originally performed at the Victory Gardens Theatre and will make its West Coast debut in Los Angeles. The story of compassionate people, who would never think of drawing attention to themselves, or their deep bond that is so fraught with feeling that to let go of it would seem terribly dangerous. JUNE 2009-mid-AUGUST 2009

TREEFALL by of Henry Murray's and Directed by John Perrin Flynn will make its World Premiere in Los Angeles at ROGUE MACHINE. Set in a future drastically altered by global warming, TREEFALL is the story of three teenagers who have been surviving in a cabin in the Pacific Northwest trying to keep their make-shift family unit together. The arrival of a stranger with a secret unhinges the life they knew and the vestiges of civil behavior crumble. The play re-examines how our culture sees and instills gender and identity in a future world where these strictures have eroded. Mid-JULY - AUGUST 2009

NEVER LAND by Phyllis Nagy is an AMERICAN PREMIERE production filled with chilling humor and surrealism, interconnected issues of sex, truth, sincerity, psychology and mystery. Phyllis is one of the most prolific and significant playwrights to emerge in the 1990's and she was Writer in Residence at The Royal Court Theatre in London. Currently Phyllis is writing for The Royal Court Theatre, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. A Los Angeles premiere set for EARLY OCTOBER 2009

The fifth play will be chosen from the following:

THINGS OF DRY HOURS by Naomi Wallace (Los Angeles premiere)

CR99448: A new play by Aaron Iverson (Los Angeles premiere)

STOP KISS by Diana Son (Los Angeles premiere)

Rogue Machine's LATE NIGHT'S will include BINGO WITH THE INDIANS by Adam Rapp - Hilarious and distasteful...only fit for late night!

ROGUE MACHINE's Artistic Director is John Perrin Flynn, Emmy-nominated producer/director of dozens of TV projects including the long-running Strong Medicine TV series on Lifetime. John directed ROGUE MACHINE's critically acclaimed inaugural production and Los Angeles premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY.

Members and associates of ROGUE MACHINE include RoxAnne Hart, Maia Danzinger, Oz Scott, Lisa Pelikan, Dado, Tracie Lockwood, Richard Fancy, JorDan Baker, Kevin Kilner, Jaxon Gwillam, Barbara Kallir, Deidre Henry, David Paluck, Edward Tournier, Judith Chapman, Phil Casnoff , Elina DeSantos, Stephanie Kerley Schwartz, Deborah Puette, Robin Larsen, John Pollono, Barbara Kallir, Henry Murray, and Matthew Elkins.

ROGUE MACHINE's goal is to draw upon the extensive experience of the collective while creating high-quality productions by contemporary playwrights that specifically address our culture and time. In order to achieve this goal, ROGUE MACHINE intends to primarily produce original plays and plays new to Los Angeles. ROGUE MACHINE will have two ‘Gallery Play Reading Festivals' a year, the next begins in September. These festivals present plays from Los Angeles area playwrights exclusively. Selections from Los Angeles based Dog Ear Playwrights and ALAP (Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights) are featured. ROGUE MACHINE also produces a salon led by prominent Los Angeles area writers and academics. Last year LA Magazine Editor-in-Chief Kit Rachlis interviewed local novelists Marisa Silver and Steve Erickson on The Writer's Creative Process in the May salon.

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