Yard Sale Signs November 14, 2010

Rogue Machine proudly presents the WORLD PREMIERE of
YARD SALE SIGNS
By Jennie Webb

OPENING Saturday, September 25, 2010

Los Angeles, CA – A comedy about mothers, daughters, and other things that imply some sort of responsibility. A shopping trip where characters find themselves examining much more than their fashion choices. With an absurdist edge, this sometimes ruthless journey throws light on the stuff that we all accumulate as we move through life…and the rather circuitous paths we follow to convince ourselves we're rid of it.

JENNIE WEBB (Playwright) is a Los Angeles playwright whose works, including Anticipating Leftovers, Remodeling Plans, The Complete Story of the War, Men & Boxes, Tilting, Buying a House and Unclaimed Assets, have been presented on stages throughout the U.S. and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Critics have called her style "somewhere between ‘The Simpsons’ and John Guare…riddled with wicked wit." Jennie’s work have been published by Heinemann Press, International Centre for Women Playwrights, and supported by A.S.K. Theater Projects, The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis' PlayLabs, the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum where she is currently playwright-in-residence and runs "Botanicum Seedlings: A Development Series for Playwrights." Jennie is co-founder of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, a member of The Playwrights Union, and she works as a freelance arts writer. Recently profiled on NY Theatre.com, she is also the recipient of a 2010 Women in Theatre Red Carpet Award.

ROGUE MACHINE has been in existence for a little over two years. In that time, the company has presented 2 Los Angeles Premiere (COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY, and STOP KISS) 5 West Coast Premiere (FOUR PLACES, MilkMilkLemonade, AMERICAN DEAD, BINGO WITH THE INDIANS, and HALF OF PLENTY), and now 3 World Premiere productions which, besides this one, include John Pollono’s RAZORBACK and last season’s multi-award winning production of Henry Murray’s TREEFALL, now published by Dramatist Play Services. ROGUE MACHINE has been building a theatre of ideas and nurturing the development of plays from contemporary writers while manifesting current culture, and consciousness.

YARD SALE SIGNS opens on Saturday, September 25th and runs Thursdays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm (in rep with MilkMilkLemonade which runs Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5pm, and Sundays at 7pm) through November 14, 2010. ROGUE MACHINE is located at 5041 Pico Blvd, LA, CA 90019. Tickets are $25. Reservations: (323) 960-4424 or at www.roguemachinetheatre.com

ELINA DE SANTOS (Director) helmed Rogue Machine’s highly acclaimed world premiere production of Razorback by John Pollono and the Los Angeles premiere of Stop Kiss by Diana Son. Recently she co-directed the premiere of a new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo at Pacific Resident Theatre, and The Blue Room at the Odyssey. At the Pasadena Playhouse Elina directed Vincent In Brixton (Nicholas Wright), for Pacific Resident Theatre, Clifford Odets’ Rocket to the Moon (LADCC Nominee for direction) , Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending, which garnered multiple awards including the top LADCC Award for performance, direction and production. At the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble Elina helmed the LA premiere and multi-award winning Speed The Plow by David Mamet, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, a nine month run of Clifford Odets’ Awake And Sing! and Proof (David Auburn). She has garnered an LA Weekly nomination for Best Direction 200 7, an Ovation Nomination, and an OC Weekly Best Production, BSW Best Production, and LADCC Best Production Nomination.

JOHN PERRIN FLYNN (Artistic Director/Producer) directed Steven Sater’s current production of New York Animals, now in development at Rogue Machine. John helmed 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 (Producer) directed the West Coast Premiere of MilkMilkLemonade and co-directed and produced the Los Angeles Premiere of Diana Son’s Stop Kiss at Rogue Machine. He produced their inaugural production Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Four Places and Steven Sater’s New York Animals. Matthew directed Raised in Captivity at Pacific Resident Theatre Co-op. Other stage credits include: A Chorus of Disapproval (Odyssey Theatre), Happy End, The Turn of the Screw (Pacific Resident Theatre), and NBC’s ER. The Winter’s Tale (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Look Homeward Angel, Hay Fever, and The Crucible (Asolo Theatre Company), as well as Indulgences in the Louisville Harem (Kennedy Center).

Our Ensemble

ANN BRONSTON (The Selfless Woman - alternate) appeared in the west coast premieres of Marie and Bruce with Sam Anderson (Odyssey), Johnny Bull (Taper Two), and the Los Angeles premiere of God’s Country by Steven Dietz. Other selected credits include Rocket to the Moon, Alice Sit by the Fire, 24 hour play festival (Pacific Resident Theatre), and the 365 Day Plays by Lori Parks. Selected New York credits include Measure for Measure (with Meryl Steep) at Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park, and membership in CSC as well as the 13th Street Theatre Company. Ann has been the recipient of an ensemble award for the west coast premiere of Uncommon Women and Others, Madwoman of Shiloh, Bingo with the Indians, and a LA Weekly Award nomination for her performance as Hermia in Midsummer’s Night Dream.

MAIA DANZINGER (The Selfless Woman - alternate) has appeared on Broadway in Waltz of the Toreadors, Heartbreak House and Accidental Death of An Anarchist. Other stage work includes productions at the Public Theatre, The Chelsea Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage and many others. She has had long-running contract roles on Another World, The Doctors and All My Children. Maia starred opposite Vanessa Redgrave in My Body, My Child and has appeared on numerous nighttime shows, including a recurring role on the Lifetime series Strong Medicine. Maia received a daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Actress for her performance in The Late Great Me. Maia is a founder of The Actors Company Theatre in NY, and a proud member of Rogue Machine and Theatre Tribe in LA.

CORRYN CUMMINS (Awkward Girl) was seen last year in Bingo With The Indians. Selected Los Angeles theatre credits include: The Lonesome West, (Odyssey), Killer Joe (Ovation Award: ensemble performance and production) , A Hole In The Dark (The Blank), Swimming To The Moon (44th St. Prods.) and Neosacred Revival (Padua Playwrights). In Chicago Corryn has worked with such theatre companies as Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, A Red Orchid, Timeline, Famous Door, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Mary-Arrchie (with whom she won a Jeff Award for her work in The Hot L Baltimore). Recent film work includes narrating the animated film From Inside and the upcoming Housebroken with Danny DeVito.

JAXON DUFF GWILLIM (The Only Man) appeared as King Charles II for Rogue Machine’s inaugural production and Los Angeles premiere of Compleat Female Stage Beauty. Selected stage credits include the Ovation and LA Weekly Award winning The Caretaker (Zephyr Theatre), Ray Cooney's farce Funny Money (Norris Center Theatre), A Chorus of Disapproval (Odyssey Theatre), Macbeth, with Christopher Plummer, Glenda Jackson and Cherry Jones (Pre-Broadway Tour), Divorcons and Candida with Orson Bean (Pacific Resident Theatre), and The Country Wife (Hayworth Theatre). He appears in the soon to be released film The Escape.

HOLLACE STARR (The Woman With Children) recently opened in the west coast premiere of MilkMilkLemonade at Rogue Machine. She appeared in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Veterans Center for the Performing Arts), A Chicago Christmas Carol (Crown City Theatre), Small Tragedies (Odyssey), Vieux Carrie (Ivy Substation), and Window of Opportunity (Met). She is well known for her solo show My Dad Came Dressed as Marilyn Monroe performed at Highways and at the Hysteria Festival in Toronto. Hollace has a MFA in acting from UCLA and is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

JENNIFER TAUB (Scattered Woman) is an award winning actress, director, and playwright. Selected stage credits include roles in Claudia Shear's Dirty Blonde at Portland Center Stage, A Servant Of Two Masters (Garland Award) at the International City Theatre under the direction of Jessica Kubzansky, Singin’ In The Rain at Cabrillo Playhouse, Cinderella at Thousand Oaks Civic Light Opera, Funny Money at Norris Center Theatre , Under The Gaslight at Laguna Playhouse, Desperate Writers at Edgemar Center Theatre, directed by Kay Cole, and at Pacific Resident Theatre: Slaughterhouse on Tanner’s Close (LA Weekly, Drama-Logue Award) , Divorcons, Lulu, and Golden Boy with Orson Bean (3 LADCC nominations and winning 5 Dramalogue Awards) . Jennifer won an ADA Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in The Heiress (West Valley Playhouse). She attended UCLA and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

INGER TUDOR (The Focused Woman) recently appeared in the Los Angeles premiere of Stop Kiss at Rogue Machine. She is a long-time member of Theatre of NOTE, a guest artist with Antaeus Company, and a former member of Classical Theatre Lab. Selected credits include Stuff Happens at Mark Taper Forum (Ovation nomination for Best Ensemble; LADCC nomination for Best Production), The Maid (4 NAACP nominations), and 1836 (NAACP Theatre Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress). TV credits include NCIS, Las Vegas, The Shield, Without A Trace, and Dragnet. Film credits include Art, Long Story Short, Sunday Morning Stripper (numerous short film awards) and The Making Of “Grits” (Mockumentary Festival - Best Actress Award).

Our Design Team

STEPHANIE KERLEY SCHWART (Scenic Design/Resident Designer for Rogue Machine) is a multi-award winning designer. Selected credits include CTG/Mark Taper Forum: Costume Design for The Lieutenant Of Inishmore and currently Costumes Design for Harps And Angeles – the new Randy Newman Musical at the Taper. As Resident Designer for Rogue Machine Theatre: Treefall (Scenery: LA Weekly Award, Garland Award, Backstage Award), Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Scenery and Costumes: Garland Award, Ovation Nomination) American Dead (Costumes). Moving Arts: Song Of Extinction (Scenery – LA Weekly Production of the Year), Pacific Resident Theatre: Scenery – Rocket To The Moon, and Orpheus Descending. The Colony Theatre: Bea[u]tiful In The Extreme (Scenery). Other companies include: Los Angeles Theatre Works, Electric Lodge, The Met, among many others. She designed costumes for The Wizard Of Oz In Concert (with Jewel as Dorothy) performed at Avery Fisher Hall for TNT. Credits for film as either Production Designer and/or Costume Designer include two period films set in rural Vermont- Where The Rivers Flow North and A Stranger In The Kingdom.

MELANIE WATNICK (Costume Design) has worked as an artist and educator for over 10 years in both theatre and dance. Her costume designs for dance have been seen with such companies as ABT II, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Malashock Dance, Corbin Dances, Backhausdance and Singapore Dance Theatre. Collaborative in nature, her work as the resident costume designer for faculty at UCI has allowed her to work with choreographers such as Jodie Gates, Loretta Livingston, Molly Lynch, Lisa Naugle, Donald McKayle, video media artist John Crawford, and nationally recognized guest artists Remy Harris, Douglas Becker, and Carlos Jones. She has designed for numerous productions in Europe and Asia. Melanie’s costume designs for theatre have included: The King Stag (Julliard, Seattle Rep.), Fire on the Mountain (Cerritos Center, San Diego Rep and The Barter), On The Mountain (South Coast Rep), and the world premiere of Three Mo' Divas , Restless Spirits, Oxygen Nuevo California and Mummified Deer (San Diego Rep).

LEIGH ALLEN (Lighting Designer), a multi-award winner for lighting design, is a recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. Leigh returns to Rogue Machine after her highly acclaimed design for Razorback and American Dead. Other credits include: Beauty And The Beast (Musical Theater West), Champagne (Regent Cruise Lines), Shimmy! (Princess Cruise Lines), Snoopy On Ice, The Red Road (Native Voices), Killer Joe (Ovation Award: Production of the Year), The Fab Four (South Bay CLO), The Prince Of LA (The Old Globe in San Diego), and Vincent At Brixton (Pasadena Playhouse). Leigh also received the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle and LA Weekly Lighting Design Award for Johnny Got His Gun.