Rogue Machine Presents of SMALL ENGINE REPAIR 3/25-4/30

Multi-award winning company Rogue Machine adds another inimitable WORLD PREMIERE production to their season.

This darkly comic drama charts three working class friends in Manchester, New Hampshire as they reunite for an evening of drinking, fighting and reminiscing. A stunning revelation quickly shifts the course of action, while testing the friendships and instigating a dangerous confrontation.

John Pollono (Playwright) enjoyed a sold-out, extended run of his play Lost and Found (Off -Broadway at the FringeNYC 2010. Selected writing credits include Illuminati, which won Best Play at the 2010 Network One-Act Festival in New York City, and Grace, a Top 4 Finalist. Razorback won the 2008 Rogue's Gallery festival and received a critically acclaimed, world-premiere run at Rogue Machine. John's new work Rules of Seconds was chosen to participate in the 2011 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska. He produces (and occasionally performs) in the hit underground writer/performer theatre series Rant & Rave. John is a member of the Dramatist's Guild and the Actor's Studio.

Andrew Block (Director) produced and directed John Pollono's critically acclaimed Lost and Found at the FringeNYC Encore series, Lucille Lortel Theatre. Last season he directed the productions Illuminati and Grace, both by Pollono, for the 2010 Network One-Act Festival, (winning both Best Play and Best Director awards), Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things for Adelphi University; and he served as Assistant Director on the Off-Broadway revival of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party with TACT/The Actor's Company Theatre in NY. Andrew is responsible for the critically acclaimed production of the West-coast premiere of Adam Rapp's Bingo With the Indians which received a 2009 GLAAD Award nomination for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre. He began Rogue Machine's 'Off the Clock' series. Additionally, for RMT, he created and produced the hit short-play festival, Shorts & Sweets, where he directed John Pollono's I Hate L.A. & Robin Rothstein's Keeping Pace. Other directing credits include Dancing at Lughnasa, 12th Night, Noises Off, City of Angels, Little Shop of Horrors, and Tartuffe.

SMALL ENGINE REPAIR runs March 25th - April 30th, with PRESS OPENING on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 8pm. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30pm, Sundays at 7pm, and Mondays at 8pm with an added shows on April 2nd at 5pm (no performance on Sunday, March 27th or Monday April 18th). ROGUE MACHINE is located at 5041 Pico Blvd., LA, CA 90019. Tickets are $25 ($15 for students, seniors, and groups.Reservations:(323) 960-4424or at www.roguemachinetheatre.com

John PerriN FLYNN (Producer/Artistic Director) recently directed the critically acclaimed Los Angeles premiere of THE SUNSET LIMITED, (CRITIC'S CHOICE-LA Times; GO- LA Weekly, CRITIC'S PICK-Backstage, Ovation RECOMMENDED) now extended into its fourth month of sell-out performances. He directed the multi-award winning World Premiere of Henry Murray's Treefall (now being produced regionally and published by the Dramatist Play Service in 2010) last season, and the critically acclaimed Los Angeles premiere of Rogue Machine's inaugural production Compleat Female Stage Beauty. John 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. He is Rogue Machine's founding Artistic Director and has been the Executive Producer of all three successful seasons. John was the Executive Producer and director of Lifetime's long running award winning series Strong Medicine, has produced two other series and 14 television movies or miniseries including the Emmy nominated Burden of Proof. He attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and has a MA degree in Theatre from Illinois State University.

ROGUE MACHINE presents plays that are new to Los Angeles. Since 2008 this has included 2 Los Angeles Premiere (COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY, and STOP KISS) 5West Coast Premiere (FOUR PLACES, MilkMilkLemonade, AMERICAN DEAD, BINGO WITH THE INDIANS, and HALF OF PLENTY), and 4World Premiere productions YARD SALE SIGNS, RAZORBACK, SHORTS & SWEETS, and the multi-award winning production of Henry Murray's TREEFALL, nowpublished by Dramatist Play Services). Last year they worked extensively with multi-award winner Steven Sater (SPRING AWAKENING) in developing his play NEW YORK ANIMALS. The company 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. This presentation of Sunset Limited is the last production for Rogue Machine's 2010 season at Theatre Theater.

JENNIFER RILEY (Producer, Producing Director 'Off the Clock') is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a founding member of Rogue Machine Theatre. Recent stage credits include Bliss, Grace, Lost and Found, Compleat Female Stagge Beauty, Shorts and Sweets and the World Premiere workshop production of Steven Sater's New York Animals directed by John Perrin Flynn.

CORRYN CUMMINS (Producer) is marketing associate with Rogue Machine, where her on stage work includes roles in Bingo with the Indians, Yard Sale Signs, 24-Hour Play Festival and several Rogue's Gallery new play readings. She has worked as an actress in LA with The Odyssey, The Blank, Padua Playwrights, and Lost Angeles (with whom she won an Ovation Award for Ensemble Performance in Killer Joe) and in Chicago with Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, A Red Orchid, Timeline, Famous Door and Mary-Arrchie (with whom she won a Jeff Award for Supporting Actress in The Hot l Baltimore directed by David Cromer).

DAVID MAUER (Production Designer) is Rogue Machine's founding Technical Director and a freelance designer/TD. Design work includes Orpheus Descending at Theatre/Theater, The Philadelphia Story at Actors' Co-op, The Limitations of Genetic Technology at Theatre of NOTE, the special effects for Yard Sale Signs with Rogue Machine. He is currently working on Rogue Machine's Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath at The Lounge Theatre.

OUR ENSEMBLE INCLUDES:

JON BERNTHAL (Terence Swaino) stars as 'Shane Walsh,' a survivor of the zombie apocalypse, in AMC's runwawy hit The Walking Dead, based on the comic book series. He recently completed work on the feature film Rampart, written by James Ellroy and starring Woody Harrelson. Jon appeared in the feature films Date Night, with Steve Carell and Tina Fey, and Roman Polanski's award-winning The Ghost Writer, opposite Ewan McGregor. Additional film credits include Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, The Air I Breathe, Day Zero, and the role of 'Al Capone' in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Previously, Jon starred in the ABC supernatural drama Eastwick and appeared in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. He starred as 'Duncan Carmello' on The Class for CBS and has made guest appearances on How I Met Your Mother, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal and CSI: Miami. Jon was raised in Washington, D.C. He went to study at The Moscow Art Theatre School, in Moscow, Russia, where he also played in the European professional baseball federation. While in Moscow, he was noticed by the director of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at The American Repertory Theatre and was invited to obtain his MFA there. After graduating in 2002, he performed in over 30 plays regionally and off-Broadway, including many with his own award-winning theatre company, Fovea Floods.

Josh Helman (Chad Walker) graduated from Australia's Q.U.T. in 2006. He has since worked extensively there in film and television projects such Home and Away, McLeod's Daughters, and Animal Kingdom, which won the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema at last year's Sundance Film Festival. Josh appeared as Lew "Chuckler" Juergens in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, which debuted in March 2010. He made his US stage debut in Play With The Penguin, directed by Billy Hopkins, at the 2010 Summer Shorts Theatre Festival in New York.

MICHAEL REDFIELD (Packie Hanrahan) is an actor, director, and film composer living in Los Angeles. He has received Ovation award nominations for performances in Small Tragedies at The Odyssey Theatre, and When They Speak of Rita at Pacific Resident Theatre. He starred in My Antonia at the Rubicon Theatre. TV/Film credits include Hannah Montana, Days of Our Loves, Bewitched, ID, and Chasing Home. For the 12in12 short film project he directed Hero by Proxy.

 

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