FOUR PLACES Extends Thru July 25th at Rogue Machine

ROGUE MACHINE proudly extends performance schedule for the West Coast Premiere of FOUR PLACES written by Joel Drake Johnson.

Now extending thru July 25th: Schedule will be Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5pm, and Sundays at 7pm (running in rep with the World Premiere of NEW YORK ANIMALS, July 8 - August 8) and will now close on July 25, 2010 (no performance on July 4th or July 17th).

What starts as an innocent lunch between a septuagenarian Mom and her two adult children degenerates into a fierce game of cat and mouse which leads to a confession that will radically upset the lives of the entire family. In Joel Drake Johnson's darkly humorous play, a weekly family outing takes some unimaginable turns.

ROGUE MACHINE announces a fourth West Coast Premiere to open their third season. The company has presented 2 Los Angeles premiere (COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY, and STOP KISS) 3 West Coast premiere (AMERICAN DEAD, BINGO WITH THE INDIANS, and HALF OF PLENTY), and 2 World premiere productions which include last season's critically acclaimed RAZORBACK and the award winning production of Henry Murray's TREEFALL, soon published by Dramatist Play Services. Rogue Machine is a collective of award winning entertainment veterans bringing a new and distinctive voice to Los Angeles Theatre. Their mission includes building a theatre of ideas and nurturing the development of plays from contemporary writers while manifesting current culture, and consciousness.

ROBIN LARSEN (Director) is a multi-award winning director recognized most recently for her work at the Black Dahlia Theatre, named "one of a dozen young American companies you need to know" by American Theater Magazine. At the Black Dahlia, Robin directed one of the most lauded plays of the 2007 Los Angeles theater season, the West Coast Premiere of Karoline Leach's Tryst (performance schedule extended four times). Her production was nominated for 5 Ovation Awards and won two Backstage Garland Awards, including Best Director. In the Dahlia's 2004 Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle Award winning season, Robin directed the Los Angeles Premiere of David Schulner's An Infinite Ache, a ‘Critic's Pick' by the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly and Backstage, it appeared on five critics' "Best of 2004" lists, and collected twelve Los Angeles Press awards and nominations, including awards for Best Direction and Production of the Year. Her first short film, Sombra, won the Student Academy Award, garnered the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Award, and screened at the Cannes International Film Festival. Robin's next film Out of Habit won a Director's Guild Film Award, the Princess Grace Award, and numerous ‘Best Short' awards. Her latest short film No. 6 (starring Ron Perlman, Charlotte Ayanna, and Brian Baumgartner has won Best Short at the Sonoma Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short at Method Fest and the USA Film Festival. Robin's screenwriting credits include the recent Women Project, for Imagine/Universal, which is set to star Diane Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Tracey Ullman, and Rita Wilson.

JOEL DRAKE JOHNSON (Playwright) is an award winning playwright. Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble has produced three of his plays: Before My Eyes (Jeff nomination), The End of the Tour (Jeff nomination) and Four Places (a finalist in the National Art's Club's Best New Play of 2006). He got his start as a writer at Chicago's critically acclaimed Econo-Art Theatre, which produced his plays Beautiful Dreamer and Blind Hearts. His play As the Beaver, a critical and popular hit for Chicago's Zebra Crossing Theatre was produced at the Burbage Theatre in Los Angeles and the Vortex Theatre in Austin, TX. His other plays have been produced at the New Playwrights' Theatre in Ashland, Oregon, the Haunted Space in Los Angeles, the West Bank Theatre and The Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, Manbites Dog in Durham, and the Milwaukee Repertory TheatrE. Johnson won Illinois Arts Council grants for Blind Hearts, The Fall to Earth and A Blue Moon (nominated for Best New Work by the Joseph Jefferson Committee). The Jeff Award winning production of The Fall to Earth was first produced (in an extended run) by Steppenwolf. It was published by Broadway Play Publishing in the fall of 2006. Steppenwolf Theatre subsequently commissioned Johnson to write A Blameless Life and Tranquility Woods which they produced in the summer of 2005 and 2007. The End of the Tour was chosen for inclusion in the anthology New Plays From Chicago. The Road Theatre presented the West Coast Premiere of The End of the Tour as part of their 2007-08 season. Johnson is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Pen America Center and the Chicago Dramatists advisory board. He has taught playwriting at Northwestern University and DePaul University. He now has a third commission from Steppenwolf Theatre.

John PerriN FLYNN (Artistic Director/Producer) directed 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 (Producing Director/Producer) Matthew Produced and Co-Directed the critically acclaimed Los Angeles Premiere of Stop Kiss last season and he Produced Rogue Machine's inaugural production of Compleat Female Stage Beauty. Recent acting credits: A Chorus of Disapproval (Odyssey Theatre), Happy End and The Turn of The Screw (Pacific Resident Theatre), and NBC's ER. He received a MFA from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory.

DEBORAH PUETTE (Producer) was recently seen in The Weinstein Company film Crossing Over with Harrison Ford. On stage she starred in Rogue Machine's highly acclaimed Los Angeles Premieres of Stop Kiss, and American Dead. Deborah garnered the LA Weekly Award for lead actress and nominations for the Ovation, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Garland Awards honoring her work in the Black Dahlia's critically acclaimed two-hander Tryst which was among the most lauded shows of Los Angeles' 2007 theater season.

For reservations call: (323) 960-4424 or visit www.roguemachinetheatre.com.       
 

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