Rogue Machine Presents LA Premiere of STOP KISS 7/9 Thru 8/23

Rogue Machine presents the second production in its second season, the Los Angeles premiere of Diana Son's STOP KISS. Directed by Elina de Santos and Matthew Elkins, the cast features Christian Anderson, Kristina Harrison, Justin Okin, Deborah Puette, Inger Tudor, and Jeorge Watson.

The consequences of love can be horrifying, and miraculously tender. Callie meets Sara and an astonishing chain of events is set into motion. This story pays homage to life's abrupt and unexpected transformations...and to the search for personal identity.

This play won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York production. Diana Son was awarded a Barilla Kerr Award for Playwrighting. This marks the third Los Angeles premiere production (following Steppenwolf playwright Lisa Dillman's HALF OF PLENTY and Pulitzer Prize nominee Adam Rapp's BINGO WITH THE INDIANS) for one of LA's newest (and already award winning) theatre companies, Rogue Machine.

STOP KISS opens Thursday, July 9th (no performances July 11th & 12th) with reception to follow. The show will also run Friday, July 10th, and then every Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm through July 26th. Afterwards, August 2nd & 3rd and continuing Fridays & Mondays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm in rep with TREEFALL through August 23, 2009. Check dates on website or call (323) 930-0747. Rogue Machine in Theatre Theater is located at 5041 Pico Blvd., LA, CA 90019. Tickets are $25 and may be purchased by calling (323) 960-7774 or at www.roguemachinetheatre.com.

Diana Son had her most recent play, SATELLITES, premiere at the Public Theater. Her plays have been produced at over two dozen theatres throughout the U.S. including Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Delaware Theatre Company and Nora Theatre. Other plays include: BOY, FISHES and R.A.W. (Cause I'm a Woman) amongst others. Diana was the 2000-2001 NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and a visiting lecturer in playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. She has also served as a Co-Executive Producer on LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT and was a Story editor on THE WEST WING. Diana is a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild.