Rogue Machine Presents YARD SALE SIGNS, 9/25

A comedy about mothers, daughters, and other things that imply some sort of responsibility.  A shopping trip where characters find themselves examining much more than their fashion choices.  With an absurdist edge, this sometimes ruthless journey throws light on the stuff that we all accumulate as we move through life...and the rather circuitous paths we follow to convince ourselves we're rid of it.
 
JENNIE WEBB (Playwright) is a Los Angeles playwright whose works, including Anticipating Leftovers, Remodeling Plans, The Complete Story of the War, Men & Boxes, Tilting, Buying a House and Unclaimed Assets, have been presented on stages throughout the U.S. and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Critics have called her style "somewhere between 'The Simpsons' and John Guare...riddled with wicked wit." Jennie's work have been published by Heinemann Press, International Centre for Women Playwrights, and supported by A.S.K. Theater Projects, The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis' PlayLabs, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum where she is currently playwright-in-residence and runs "Botanicum Seedlings: A Development Series for Playwrights." Jennie is co-founder  of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, a member of The Playwrights Union, and she  works as a freelance arts writer.  Recently profiled on NY Theatre.com, she is also the recipient of a 2010 Women in Theatre Red Carpet Award.
 
ROGUE MACHINE has been in existence for a little over two years.  In that time, the company has presented 2 Los Angeles Premiere (COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY, and STOP KISS) 5 West Coast Premiere (FOUR PLACES, MilkMilkLemonade, AMERICAN DEAD, BINGO WITH THE INDIANS, and HALF OF PLENTY), and now 3 World Premiere productions which, besides this one, include John Pollono's RAZORBACK and last season's multi-award winning production of Henry Murray's TREEFALL, now published by Dramatist Play Services.  ROGUE MACHINE has been building a theatre of ideas and nurturing the development of plays from contemporary writers while manifesting current culture, and consciousness.
  
YARD SALE SIGNS opens on Saturday, September 25th and runs Thursdays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm (in rep with MilkMilkLemonade which runs Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5pm, and Sundays at 7pm) through November 14, 2010.  ROGUE MACHINE is located at 5041 Pico Blvd, LA, CA 90019.  Tickets are $25. Reservations: (323) 960-4424 or at www.roguemachinetheatre.comELINA DE SANTOS (Director) helmed Rogue Machine's highly acclaimed world premiere production of Razorback by John Pollono and the Los Angeles premiere of Stop Kiss by Diana Son.  Recently she co-directed the premiere of a new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo at Pacific Resident Theatre, and The Blue Room at the Odyssey.  At the Pasadena Playhouse Elina directed Vincent In Brixton (Nicholas Wright), for 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.  At the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble Elina helmed 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).  She has garnered an LA Weekly nomination for Best Direction 2007, an Ovation Nomination, and an OC Weekly Best Production, BSW Best Production, and LADCC Best Production Nomination.
 
John PerriN FLYNN (Artistic Director/Producer) directed Steven Sater's current production of New York Animals, now in development at Rogue Machine.  John helmed both the critically acclaimed and award winning Los Angeles premiere of Rogue Machine's inaugural production Compleat Female Stage Beauty and the company's World Premiere production of Henry Murray's multi-award winning Treefall last season.  He directed 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 most recently produced Rogue Machine's Los Angeles Premiere of Stop Kiss.  
 
MATTHEW ELKINS (Producer) directed the West Coast Premiere of MilkMilkLemonade and co-directed and produced the Los Angeles Premiere of Diana Son's Stop Kiss at Rogue Machine. He produced their inaugural production Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Four Places and Steven Sater's New York Animals. Matthew directed Raised in Captivity  at Pacific Resident Theatre Co-op.  Other stage credits include: A Chorus of Disapproval (Odyssey Theatre), Happy End, The Turn of the Screw (Pacific Resident Theatre), and NBC's ER.  The Winter's Tale (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Look Homeward Angel, Hay Fever, and The Crucible (Asolo Theatre Company), as well as Indulgences in the Louisville Harem (Kennedy Center).