Rapp's BINGO WITH THE INDIANS Comes To Rogue Machine 5/15-6/7

In a shabby New England motel, 3 members of a NY theatre group have arrived with a scheme. As the evening darkens and unravels...so do their ambitions and secrets. This dark comedy--from Pulitzer-nominee Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, Nocturne) is a visceral, provocative, oddball piece about a group of artists desperately trying to force a place for themselves, and how far they will go to get what they want. This West-Coast premiere marks the debut of Rogue Machine's ‘Off the Clock,' a late-night series of bold, taut, intoxicating theatrical concoctions for the artistically daring crowd.

Playwright Adam Rapp is also a novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and musician. He is the author of numerous young adult and adult novels. Rapp's novel The Buffalo Tree was censored by the Muhlenberg School Board. His award-winning plays include Nocturne, Finer Noble Gases, and Red Light Winter, which sold out its initial Steppenwolf run in Chicago and transferred to a hugely successful Off-Broadway run that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2005. Rapp completed a two-year playwriting fellowship at The Juilliard School. He directed his first film, Winter Passing with Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell in 2005 and was a creative consultant for the television show The L Word. Rapp was a member of the Bottomside, which released the independent CD The Element Man in September 2004. He is currently a member of Less the Band, which released Bear in April 2006. Bingo With The Indians was originally produced at the Flea Theatre in NYC in 2007, directed by the playwright himself for the group of 20-something actors in the Flea's company. Playwright Marsha Norman describes him as "a writer the world was going to listen to for as long as he felt like writing...he writes like nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that waits for his characters." Rogue Machine's is its first production anywhere else.

ANDREW BLOCK (Director) has been active with Rogue Machine since its first production, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, where he was seen as Samuel Pepys. A native of New Orleans, he received his MFA from DePaul University in Chicago, his BFA from Adelphi University in NY, and spent some time in between running a high school theatre program in TX. Since landing in L.A. 4 years ago, he has been working in commercial, VO, film and TV. Favorite roles include Charley in Merrily We Roll Along, Douglas in The Waiting Room, Guiteau in Assassins, Bobby Gould in Speed-the-Plow, Max in Lend Me a Tenor and Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest. His Directing credits include Dancing at Lughnasa, 12th Night, Noises Off, and City of Angels. Andrew is thrilled to be collaborating with his grad school artistic colleague, Brennan Parks, on Rogue Machine's Off the Clock series and thanks John Flynn for this opportunity.

BINGO WITH THE INDIANS opens Friday, May 15th and runs through June 7, 2009 at ROGUE MACHINE in Theatre Theater, 5041 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90019. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30pm and Sundays at 4 pm. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased by calling (323) 960-7774 or at www.roguemachinetheatre.com

ROGUE MACHINE is a collective of award winning entertainment veterans bringing a new and distinctive voice to Los Angeles theatre. This presentation of BINGO WITH THE INDIANS launches the new Rogue Machine ‘Off the Clock' late night series, attracting particular interest from an edgier/artistically daring crowd. This series is curated by Rogue Machine members Andrew Block and Brennan Parks, with plans to produce 3-4 pieces per season of exciting, actor-centric works that further showcase the talents of our company members and bring fresh work to a theatre-hungry audience. ROGUE MACHINE draws upon the diverse and extensive experience of its collective while creating high-quality productions by contemporary playwrights who specifically address our culture and time. The ROGUE MACHINE mission includes building a theatre of ideas and nurturing the development of plays from contemporary writers while manifesting current culture, and consciousness. ROGUE MACHINE projects will exhibit a strong emphasis on presenting new plays or plays new to Los Angeles.

JOHN PERRIN FLYNN (Producer/Artistic Director) directed the critically acclaimed Los Angeles premiere of Rogue Machine's inaugural production COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY. He helmed the Craig Lucas' hit SMALL TRAGEDIES at The Odyssey Theatre and the world premiere of John Pollono's LOST AND FOUND at The Lounge Theatre. Executive producer and director of Lifetime's long running award winning series STRONG MEDICINE, John has produced two other series and 14 television movies or miniseries including the Emmy nominated BURDEN OF PROOF. He attended The London School of Music and Dramatic Art and has an MA degree in Theatre from Illinois State University.

BRENNAN PARKS (Producer) most recently served as associate producer on the world-premiere production of Razorback at Rogue Machine Theatre, where he also served as assistant director of the company's inaugural production, Compleat Female Stage Beauty. In Chicago, Brennan directed the world-premiere of Brett Neveu's The Meek, at A Red Orchid Theatre. He assistant directed Lost Land, with John Malkovich, and Intimate Apparel (Steppenwolf). Brennan also served as production dramaturg for the Jeff Award-winning Fiorello! at Timeline Theatre and The God of Hell at The Next Theatre. He received his MFA in Directing from The Theatre School at DePaul University. He is currently working in post-production on In Treatment and the new series Hung, both for HBO.

THE ENSEMBLE:

Stash - Patrick Flanagan

Dee - Melissa Paladino

Wilson - West Liang

Steve - Brian Norris

Mrs. Wood - Ann Bronston

Jackson - Corryn Cummins

Native-American Man - Ron Joseph

ROGUE MACHINE
in Theatre Theater
5041 Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90019
(West of La Brea)

Previews May 8th and 9th
Opening May 15, 2009
Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30pm
Sundays at 4pm
Closing: Sunday June 7, 2009

For reservations call: (323) 960-7774 or visit www.roguemachinetheatre.com

How Much:
Tickets are $15

 

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