M&M Productions Presents DREAM LOVERS At FringeNYC 8/14 Thru 8/27

M&M Productions is proud to present Dream Lovers by Albi Gorn as part of the 13th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. This 90 minute fast-paced show will be presented at the Cherry Pit Theatre at 155 Bank Street in the West Village in August. Tickets are $15. For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org.

Performances are:
Friday, August 14 at 7:15 PM
Saturday, August 15 at noon
Tuesday, August 18 at 9:30 PM
Thursday, August 20 at 5:15 PM
Thursday, August 27 at 2:30 PM

Directions to the Cherry Pit: Closest subway: A, C, E to 14th Street/L to 8th Avenue. Walk south on 8th Avenue to Hudson Street. Walk south on Hudson Street to Bank Street, then walk west to the theatre. The Theatre is handicapped accessible.

Fast-paced, fiery and fun, Dream Lovers includes 5 zany couples on 5 funny dates having 5 startling climaxes... Are they having dream sex in their fantasy or fantasy sex in their dreams? Multiple national award-winning playwright has had numerous plays presented at the Theatre Association of NY State Festival, winning this years' Eastern States Festival and going on to represent the Eastern States at the national competition in Tacoma WA this past June.

Floyd and Lucy have just had the most incredible night they have ever spent together. They both liked, and understood, the same foreign movie, loved the Ethiopian restaurant, walked home through the sweet smelling NYC streets and had the best and longest sex of their lives. Can this be real? If it is a dream; whose dream is it?

Meanwhile, Claude and Barbara spent such a memorable evening together they forget who they are. Whilst Jeff and Marieke share an office and at night, in their separate apartments, they share wildly imaginative dreams where they fall in love, over and over again. At work, a court reporter is hired to get the facts straight during one of Marlene and Reese's frequent spats. Finally, a first date is difficult enough, but for Joan and Paul, it is even more tricky as their sexy subconscious takes over the conversation with hilarious results.

Just named "Best of Westchester" for Theater by Westchester Magazine, M&M Productions was also a past Hudson Valley Magazine's "Editor's Choice." A finalist at the 31st Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, M&M was selected as one of three "must sees" in Westchester County by Channel 12. "For those seduced by dialogue and character development" - NY Times.

Melinda O'Brien, Producing Director, recently directed the well-received original musical Once/Twice Off-Off Broadway and is a graduate of The Commercial Theater Institute. She has directed over 40 plays in the New York area. Michael Muldoon, Production Manager, director and actor in Dream Lovers, is an award-winning actor who has appeared in professional theater companies across the country as well as the soap operas ‘One Life to Live' and ‘As the World Turns.'

Other directors of Dream Lovers are the author, Albi Gorn, as well as Robin Joseph and Carol Eagen. The cast is Kurt Lauer*, Elise P. Godfrey, Sean M. Grady, Michael Muldoon*, Melinda O'Brien, Karen Quinn-Panzer, Gary Simon and Sarah Smegal with stage management under Ray Arrucci*.

*appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association.

M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. cofounders, Melinda O'Brien and Michael Muldoon, are committed to developing quality, live theatre and bringing it into intimate settings throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond. For M&M Productions, all the world truly is a stage.

In 2002, M&M Productions' Art, by Yasmina Reza, was named "Best Short Production" at the 43rd Annual Theatre Association of New York State Festival (TANYS) and went on to represent the State of NY at the Eastern States Theatre Association's Festival (ESTA) in April 2003 in Maryland. Also in 2003, they were named Hudson Valley Magazine's "Editor's Choice" for the brilliant production of Comedies at Work; a series of corporate satires by award-winning authors, Albi Gorn and Jim Whalen. In addition, the company was featured in The New York Times for their sizzling staging of Dinner with Friends. In 2004, M&M inaugurated the Hudson Valley Fringe Theatre Festival, bringing innovative performances to four geographically diverse theatres and in 2006 produced their first juried, one-act Festival titled "Keep Breathing." Two crowd-pleasing plays from that festival were chosen for performance in the 31st Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival for June 2006, and one, The Rub, was selected as a finalist. Also in 2006, M&M's excellent Alice in Wonderland was selected as one of three "must sees" in Westchester County by Channel 12. In January 2007, a full page article appeared on M&M, titled "Library Impresarios," by Peter Kramer in The Journal News, applauding their daring readings of Salomé and developing a local author's play on Emily Dickinson, Feathers Sometimes Soar on the Breath of God by Ward James Riley. Summer 2008 found M&M co-producing a dance-performance piece by Virgin Dance, Salt Lake, the Ballet for the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival that was featured in The New York Times. M&M was selected as a Westchester Magazine's "Best of Westchester" for Theatre in 2009.

2009 also brought M&M to TANYS and ESTA Festivals again, where they took first place and moved on to the National Festival, with two one-acts by Albi Gorn,. These one-acts will be incorporated in M&M's Dream Lovers, by Albi Gorn in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival in August.

M&M Productions is proud to be an active member of Theatre Resources Unlimited and produced a play for their 10th Annual TRU Voices Play Reading Series at The Players Theatre in NYC in June 2008. With over 60 productions traveling to more than 45 venues in the Hudson Valley, M&M continues to tickle, shock and inspire audiences, producing classics, contemporary plays and developing new works.

 

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