Trouble Jones Productions to Premiere RED FLAG

Trouble Jones Productions has announced the World Premiere of RED FLAG, written and performed by Melanie Maras and directed by Kate Sullivan. RED FLAG will preview on Thursday, April 2 at 8:00pm and will open on Friday, April 3 and run through Sunday, April 26 at The Lost Studio, 130 S. La Brea Ave. in Los Angeles, 90036.

Half Baptist, half Muslim and totally boy crazy, Melanie is blazing through relationships like a misguided missile. Some of her concerns include: (a) how to locate testicles, (b) men with Asian Fetish, and (c) her eggs dying.

RED FLAG is a pitch black comedy about what happens when a girl with baby fever gets a bad boyfriend.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM AND CAST
MELANIE MARAS (Performer/Playwright) is a writer and storyteller. Raised in Indonesia, educated in England, and an NYC theatre artist for several years, Melanie brings an international and unique perspective to her work.
Her first play, Kiss Me On The Mouth, was directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Tony Nominee for The Motherf**Ker With The Hat) and produced by InViolet Theatre Company at Center Stage New York. Kiss Me On The Mouth received rave reviews and had a sold out run. Variety called it a "contained, smart script" that "exhibits plenty of wit, craft and, most of all, heart." Kiss Me On The Mouth was a Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist.

Melanie has had the privilege of telling stories at the LA Comedy Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival. She has also told stories for Kevin Allison's "Risk!" (podcast and live show), "Hello Giggles," "Sunday Night Sex Stories," "Ask Me Stories," And "Told". She was honored to be a guest artist at the Singapore American School where she taught storytelling to high schoolers. Melanie is a founding member of InViolet Theatre Company and a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio, both in New York City. Currently living in Los Angeles, she is developing new works for film, television, and theatre. She is proud to be a mentor at the Young Storytellers Foundation where she works with young writers.

KATE SULLIVAN (Director) is the founder and artistic director of theater company, Over the Moon Productions. With Over the Moon, Kate has developed and directed a variety of works including the Los Angeles premiere of Spring Awakening (seven Ovation nominations including Best Musical and Best Direction) and a production of Rent staged in a downtown warehouse. Other credits include assisting Tony-Award winning director Michael Mayer in Roundabout Theater's workshop of Sunset Blvd and Michael Greif on the world premiere musical A Walk On The Moon for New York Stage and Film.
With the producers Tom Hulce, Ira Pittleman and Chris Maring, Kate is currently developing an original musical,Nineteen written by Sofia Alvarez (Friend Art, Between Us Chickens) with the music of indie pop-rock group Tegan & Sara.

Kate was the 2014 recipient of the Epstein Directing Fellowship at New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

RED FLAG is produced by Alenka Obal and Heather Tierney. The design team for RED FLAG includes Stephen Gifford (set), Brandon Baruch (lights), Drew Dalzell (sound) and Jill Pugh (hair and make-up). The Production Stage Manager is Ashley Nicole.

SCHEDULE AND PRICING
RED FLAG will preview on Thursday, April 2 at 8:00pm and will open on Friday, April 3 and run through Sunday, April 26 at The Lost Studio, 130 S. La Brea Ave. in Los Angeles, 90036.

Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 7:30pm.

Tickets are $20. For tickets, please buy online at www.brownpapertickets.com or http://redflagplay.bpt.me/. For more information on the production, please visit www.redflagplay.com.

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