Rogue Machine Announces New Schedule for SMALL ENGINE REPAIR

By: Kelsey Denette May. 23, 2011

Multi-award winning company Rogue Machine announces an extended schedule for their popular (CRITIC'S CHOICE-LA Times; GO- LA Weekly, CRITIC'S PICK-Backstage, Ovation RECOMMENDED) WORLD PREMIERE production of SMALL ENGINE REPAIR.

This darkly comic drama charts three working class friends in Manchester, New Hampshire as they reunite for an evening of drinking, fighting and reminiscing. A stunning revelation quickly shifts the course of action, while testing the friendships and instigating a dangerous confrontation.

John Pollono (Playwright) enjoyed a sold-out, extended run of his play Lost and Found (Off -Broadwayatthe FringeNYC 2010. Selected writing credits include Illuminati, whichwon Best Play at the 2010 Network One-Act Festival in New York City, and Grace, a Top 4 Finalist. Razorback won the 2008 Rogue's Gallery festival and received a critically acclaimed, world-premiere run at Rogue Machine. John's new work Rules of Seconds was chosen to participate in the 2011 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska. He produces (and occasionally performs) in the hit underground writer/performer theatre series Rant & Rave. John is a member of the Dramatist's Guild and the Actor's Studio.

Andrew Block (Director) produced and directed John Pollono's critically acclaimed Lost and Found at the FringeNYC Encore series, Lucille Lortel Theatre. Last season he directed the productions Illuminati and Grace, both by Pollono, for the 2010 Network One-Act Festival, (winning both Best Play and Best Director awards), Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things for Adelphi University; and he served as Assistant Director on the Off-Broadway revival of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party with TACT/The Actor's Company Theatre in NY. Andrew is responsible for the critically acclaimed production of the West-coast premiere of Adam Rapp's Bingo With the Indians which received a 2009 GLAAD Award nomination for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre. He began Rogue Machine's 'Off the Clock' series. Additionally, for RMT, he created and produced the hit short-play festival, Shorts & Sweets, where he directed John Pollono's I Hate L.A. & Robin Rothstein's Keeping Pace. Other directing credits include Dancing at Lughnasa, 12th Night, Noises Off, City of Angels, Little Shop of Horrors, and Tartuffe.

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