Rogue Machine Theatre's 8th Season Kicks Off Tonight

Multi-award winning ROGUE MACHINE THEATRE (BEST PRODUCTION Award winner 2013, 2011 and 2010 - Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Ovation) is back for a new season, with new Literary Manager Tim Cummings. The EIGHTH SEASON in Los Angeles begins tonight, June 6, 2015.

SEASON EIGHT main stage offerings will include the West Coast Premiere of A PERMANENT IMAGE by Samuel D. Hunter - opening June 6, 2015. As members of an estranged family from a small town in Idaho gather to bury the family patriarch, Mom delivers a surprising twist. Other plays by Hunter include Pocatello, The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play) and A Bright New Boise (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Few, A Great Wilderness, and Rest. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, and the 2008 PONY/Lark Fellowship. The performance schedule will be 5pm Saturdays, 7pm Sundays, and 8pm Mondays through July 27th. Tickets are $30 at http://www.roguemachinetheatre.com. For more information call 855-585-5185 .

JUNE 16, 2015 (6pm - 9pm) will be Rogue Machine's Annual Benefit, at the New Roads School (Herb Alpert Educational Village) 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica. It will feature entertainment, food, and drinks, silent auction, and MORE...Tickets $150, available at http://www.roguemachinetheatre.com

Opening July 25th will be the World Premiere of LUKA'S ROOM by Rob Mersola. It will run for an eight weeks. Luka has a gift or is it a curse? It seems every girl he meets wants to get lucky with him! Rob Mersola is a playwright, director and producer. His award-winning play Dirty Filthy Love Story (LA Times - CRITIC'S CHOICE, Ovation Nom for Best New Play, 3 LA Weekly Award noms) premiered at Rogue Machine with critical acclaim. Rob produced John Pollono's play Lost Girls, directed by John Flynn. Rob's play Backseats & Bathroom Stalls (AKA Love Sucks), played at the Lyric-Hyperion Theatre and the Coast Playhouse (2009-2011) to rave reviews and sold-out houses. Several of his plays have been produced in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Rob's work has been performed at the world famous Aspen Comedy Festival, LA's Improv Olympic, among others.

September will bring the World Premiere of NEED TO KNOW by Jonathan Caren. Lilly and Steven are moving...again. This time back East where they meet their enthusiastic new neighbor Mark. After Google-stalking him, they have a field day mocking his odd life...only to realize Mark heard everything they said about him in the apartment next door. Can they repair the damage, or did the trash-talk go too far? When Mark digs into their lives, he discovers a secret that not even Lilly knows about Steven. A play about the ways we process the information we discover about each other online, and just how much we need to know. Jonathan Caren's plays include The Recommendation (IAMA 2014, The Flea 2013, Old Globe 2012, Craig Noel Award, Best New Play, 2014 Ovation, Best Play, NAACP nomination), The Morning The Sun Fell (MTC 7@7 2013), Let Me Go (2013 Rattlestick Fest, JPP), Catch The Fish (Most Outstanding Play, NY Fringe) and The Venerable Raman Gupta (Flea First Look Series, Sundance Finalist, New Group 2014 New Works Lab) and the forthcoming The House That Jake Built (IAMA 2015). His work has been developed at The Manhattan Theater Club, The Roundabout Underground, Williamstown, and in The Samuel French OOB Festival, The Old Vic in London, and others. He is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, The New York Stage and Film Founder's Award Winner, a two time recipient of a Fellowship to SPACE @ Ryder Farm, a two-time Lecomte du Nouy award winner and a recipient of the Theater Publicus Prize for Dramatic Fiction. Additionally, he was a finalist for the Laurents/Hatcher Award, a nominee for the Otis Guerney New American Playwright's Award. In Television, Jonathan wrote pilots for FOX, CBS and Wind Dancer Productions.

Opening in Mid-October will be the Los Angeles Premiere of HONKY by Greg Kalleres. "Hilarious...a daffy treat, irreverently tackling a subject that appears destined to be forever uncomfortable: race... keeps you laughing from start to finish" NY Times Critic's Pick. Greg Kalleres received his BFA from Tisch's Dramatic Writing Program at NYU. His plays have been produced in numerous cities including, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Berkeley, Bloomington, IN, and Beirut, Lebanon. He received the Certificate of Excellence from the Kennedy Center and the Emerging Playwright Award for his Off Broadway play, HONKY (Urban Stages, NY Times Critic's Pick). He is a two-time finalist for Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard and a two-time finalist for the Aurora Theater Global Age Project. Greg's work has been published by the New York Times, TDF Stages Magazine, Cracked.com, Samuel French, United Stages, Dramatist Play Service and New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2013.

In addition to the four main stage productions and the Annual Benefit event, ROGUE MACHINE THEATRE will select several projects for their LATE NIGHT series, which traditionally offers "edgier" entertainment. Previous productions in this slot include the critically acclaimed and multi-award nominated (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, LA Weekly Awards, and Ovation Awards) SMALL ENGINE REPAIR by John Pollono, BINGO WITH THE INDIANS by Adam Rapp, and DIRTY FILTHY LOVE STORY by Rob Mersola. The successful AROUND THE CLOCK playwrighting/production series will continue, as will the popular RANT & RAVE monthly series. Ticketing information will be announced shortly, and will be available by visiting www.roguemachinetheatre.com.