STOP KISS Extends At Rogue Machine Through 9/20

Rogue Machine is extending the performance schedule through September 20, 2009 for the Los Angeles premiere of STOP KISS by Diana Son, the GLAAD Media Award winner for Outstanding New York production.

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...to romance, and to the search for personal identity.

This production is directed by Elina DeSantos and Matthew Elkins and produced by John Perrin Flynn and Matthew Elkins. The cast features Christian Anderson, Kristina Harrison, Justin Okin, Deborah Puette, Inger Tudor, and Jeorge Watson.

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 opened Thursday, July 9th and now runs in rep with TREEFALL on Fridays & Mondays at 8pm & Sundays at 7pm through September 20, 2009 (no shows during Labor Day weekend). Rogue Machine in Theatre Theater is located at 5041 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, 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.

Photo Credit: John Flynn