The Boys Are Angry Set for Fringe Encore Series at SoHo Playhouse

Maineland Productions presents The Boys Are Angry on September 30 at 7:00PM, October 1 at 8:00 PM, and October 3 at 8:00 PM at SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, New York, NY 10013

Maineland Productions presents the New York premiere of Jillie Mae Eddy's The Boys Are Angry as part of the Fringe Encore Series at SoHo Playhouse. Winner: Overall Excellence in Acting, FringeNYC 2015.

The Boys Are Angry follows three young millennials: AJ, a Reddit philosopher, semi- professional blogger, and militant Men's-Rights-Activist-cum-Red-Piller; Quinn, a software programmer, self-described romantic, and AJ's childhood friend; and The Girl, a friendly baker, the object of Quinn's affections, and the blank canvas onto which both men project their fantasies. From a small, dark wing of a large, run-down compound and through a series of conversations both real and imagined, the play investigates on- and offline communication; present-day American masculinity; and the violent hatred of women at the dark heart of the Manosphere.

The creative team includes Jillie Mae Eddy (words & music), Sam Plattus (director) and Maridee Slater (producer for Maineland Productions). The cast includes Jillie Mae Eddy, Nate Houran and Xander Johnson.

JILLIE MAE EDDY (Playwright, 'The Girl') is a musician, actress, playwright, and composer. She earned her BA from Bowdoin College in Stage & Screen Studies (self-designed) with a minor in Gender & Women's Studies, and she earned her MA in Music Theatre from The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London. Her work has been performed at Royal Festival Hall, 54 Below, The Alchemical Theater Lab, Columbia Stages, The Cell, and Portland Stage. Her original ballad play, Holler, An Appalachian Tragedy, was mounted at New Haven's Lyric Hall in December 2014. Most recently, she appeared as Crow in Maridee Slater's production of The Tooth of Crime at the Connelly Theater in New York City; she also contributed one original song and three further compositions set to Sam Shepard's lyrics. You can find her at jilliemae.com and on Twitter @missbogencounty.

SAM PLATTUS (Director) is a director, actor, and producer from New Haven, Connecticut. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College with a BA in English & Theater, and was a member of the Advanced Directing semester with the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in the fall of 2012. Sam has directed shows at the Portland Stage Company with the PortFringe Theater Festival and has worked with Elm Shakespeare Company (New Haven), the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Acadia Reperatory Theater (Mount Desert Island, ME), (dream)play, FullStop Collective, and Acteurs Sans Limites. He recently directed Jillie Mae Eddy's Holler, An Appalachian Tragedy at Lyric Hall in New Haven. You can find him at samplattus.com.

MARIDEE SLATER (Producer) is a director, performer, and writer with a penchant for live music and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University. She comes from the desert. Her name means "of the sea." That irony is not lost on her, or wasted. Recent project run the gamut in terms of genre: The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard, with original music by Jillie Mae Eddy and Sam Gelband, You've Been Tartuffed (Lickety Split, Off-Broadway), Song of the Sea ((dream)play, Jillie Mae Eddy), SIRENS (devised with writings from Tabia Lau, Matthew Minnicino, Diane Nora, and Laura Zlatos, music by Jillie Mae Eddy), A Sea Gull (adapted from Chekov's classic by Matthew Minnicino), Select Selections From The Heart: A Word Cycle (Tabia Lau), Twelfth Night (adapted by Matthew Minnicino), A Separate Thing From Earth (Matthew Minnicino), The Girl from Bare Cove (Jillie Mae Eddy), and a solo spin on Chekov's Cherry Orchard, titled Drop It (Maridee Slater- Writer/ Performer, Edinburgh Fringe). She holds degrees in Acting and Scenic Design from Colorado Mesa University. You can find her at marideeslater.com.

MAINELAND PRODUCTIONS is a collective of artists from away making plays, movies, and music in Bar Harbor, ME (and sometimes bringing our plays, movies, and music elsewhere). We believe in risk but also in accessibility. We believe in self-reliance but also in community involvement. We believe in the enduring relevance of Shakespeare and the classics but also in the cultivation of new work by women, artists of color, and all Others underrepresented in the canon.

NATE HOURAN ('Quinn') is an actor from Laconia, New Hampshire. He earned his BA in English & Theater from Bowdoin College, and he is also a graduate of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Previous credits include Romeo in Fenix Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet, MacCoy in Maineland's PortFringe production of Holler, An Appalachian Tragedy, and The Elephant/Peter in the FringeNYC production of Anna Fox's The Elephant in the Room.

XANDER JOHNSON ('AJ') is very excited to be working on his second stage show with Maineland Productions. Xander has previously worked with director Sam Plattus on productions on American Buffalo, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and the original show Jacob by Nati Avni- Singer. Xander most recently appeared in Maineland's Holler, An Appalachian Tragedy at Lyric Hall in New Haven, CT and in Capital Classics' summer production of All's Well That Ends Well. Other credits include Salamanticus (an original play by Stephen Legaweic), End of Summer, Den of Thieves, Holiday, The Imaginary Invalid, and Rhinocerous. Xander attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, where he studied theater. Xander has also studied at the Atlantic Theater Acting School in New York. You can find him at xanderj.wix.com/xanderjohnson.

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