NEWS RELEASE ▪︎ NEW VERSION OF MATT MORILLO’S SEX COMEDY “THE INVENTOR AND THE ESCORT” OPENS FRIDAY 3/31 at 8pm at THE LOUNGE THEATRE

KADM PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCES

A NEW PRODUCTION OF

THE INVENTOR AND THE ESCORT

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MATT MORILLO

FEATURING JESSICA MORENO AND JARET SACREY

NEW VERSION OF ACCLAIMED SEX COMEDY

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HITS

ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN LOW–RISE JEANS

WITH HIGH–CLASS ISSUES

AND

ALL ABOARD THE MARRIAGE HEARSE

OPENS MARCH 31 AT THE LOUNGE THEATRE

FOR FOUR WEEKS ONLY

KADM Productions has announced a strictly limited four-week engagement of The Inventor and The Escort, written and directed by Matt Morillo, at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. Winner of the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Teapot Award for Outstanding Theatre, this revised version of the acclaimed sex comedy (presented in Los Angeles in 2012 as The Inventor, the Escort, the Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend) will feature Jessica Moreno and Jaret Sacrey, and opening is set for Friday, March 31 at 8pm. The limited engagement will run through April 23 only.

Actors Jessica Moreno and Jaret Sacrey will reunite for this engagement following the acclaimed sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The set and lighting design are by Rene Parras, Jr. The Inventor and The Escort is produced for KADM Productions by Joanne Hartstone.

During the worst blizzard in New York City history, Julia (a call girl) arrives for an appointment with Jeffrey, a reclusive man who has become rich by inventing best-selling sex toys. What starts as a routine ‘trick’ with trimmings (fake palm trees, suntan lotion, and lots of margaritas) ends up with Jeffrey and Julia helping each other uncover what led them to be who they are, getting considerably more than they bargained for on this ‘first date.’ Morillo’s sexy comedy is a cheeky but ultimately touching story of two lost souls in a big city searching for love and happiness in all the wrong places and then surprisingly finding each other.

Matt Morillo’s first play, Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans with High-Class Issues, was a runaway hit on two continents, packing houses and receiving rave reviews through three separate runs in New York City, and two separate runs in Sydney, Australia.  Of the 2008 Los Angeles production, Variety wrote, “Angry Young Women is a cheerfully raunchy show that boasts … hilarious writing and a sharp, fearless and funny cast.” Morillo’s other playwriting credits include All Aboard the Marriage Hearse, Allen Wilder 2.0, and American Soldiers. A screenwriter also, he made his debut at age 23 with the award-winning film The Pretenders (2000), and he has written several highly lauded and award-winning short films, including Maid of Honor (2003).

The Inventor and The Escort is set to open on Friday, March 31 at 8pm. The running schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm, and Sunday at 5pm, through April 23 only. General seating admission is $25. The performance running time is 65 minutes and there is no late seating. Tickets are on sale now, and may be purchased online at www.kadm.com or by calling (323) 960-4443.

The Lounge Theatre is located at 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard (just east of Vine, at El Centro), in Hollywood. Street parking is available.

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03-08-17

NEW RELEASE ▪︎ TRANS CHORUS OF LOS ANGELES MAKES RENBERG THEATRE DEBUT at LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ▪︎ APRIL 7 & 8 at 8pm

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Presents

TRANS CHORUS OF LOS ANGELES
 Lindsey Deaton, Artistic Director

 Performing

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Friday & Saturday, April 7 & 8, at 8pm

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center has announced it will be welcoming the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles (TCLA) to its Renberg Theatre for the first time. The musical ambassadors will perform two nights only, Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8, at 8pm. TCLA will perform planet Earth’s first staged concert production of the full The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie. As Bowie intended, additional hit songs will complete the entire musical saga.

Said TCLA Artistic Director Lindsey Deaton, “There has never been a staged concert production of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars as envisioned by Bowie and told to William Burroughs. The chorus is very thrilled and excited to sing the music of Bowie while telling the story of the ‘Starman.’ Many of us grew up with Bowie who somehow, we felt, allowed us to live our truth and express ourselves authentically.”

TCLA is the largest group of trans and gender non-conforming people anywhere in the world who gather together regularly to raise their voices in song. Its performances are intended not only to empower its members, but also to change the way others see the transgender community. Since their founding in late 2015, TCLA has drawn attention to the trans community and trans issues through live performances, community engagement, and social and traditional media. With a strong belief that TCLA is uniquely positioned to offer the trans narrative in a truly significant and impactful way, its mission is to fiercely empower the transgender, non-binary, and intersex community to discover, love, develop, and use their voices to change the social ecology everywhere.

In its inaugural year, the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles performed at the 2015 West Hollywood Transgender Day of Remembrance with Alexandra Billings and Our Lady J from Transparent; the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles’s (GMCLA) Fifth Annual Voice Awards; True Colors debut concert with TCLA, GMCLA, and Vox Femina;  LA Pride, Long Beach Pride and TransPride LA; Kol Tikvah Temple; St. John’s Cathedral, Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles (the first Trans chorus to perform in a Cathedral anywhere); the opening ceremony of LGBT Heritage Month with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the LA City Council; the Williams Institute UniTy Awards with Laverne Cox; and Interscope Records’ song “Hands,” a musical tribute to benefit Orlando victims and LGBT organizations.

Artistic Director Lindsey Deaton is a conductor, guitarist, singer, speaker, and a fierce transgender and LGBTIQ youth advocate. She is the Founder/Artistic Director of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. Ms. Deaton served as the conducting apprentice to Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She has guest conducted the San Francisco Ballet, Louisville Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Youngstown Symphony and Chorus, Schenectady Symphony, and numerous orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival, among others. An active music educator, in 2002 Ms. Deaton received the Dalcroze Certificate and the Dalcroze License from the Juilliard School in New York City. Her principle teachers were famed conducting pedagogue Leon Barzin in Paris, Gunther Schuller, Murry Sidlin, and Celin Romero. She studied with Dalcroze experts Robert Abramson and Marta Sanchez. She received her MFA in Conducting from Carnegie Mellon University.

General admission tickets are $35 and may be purchased online at www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or by phone at (323) 860-7300. Net proceeds from all ticket sales will support the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles and the full range of free and low-cost programs and services offered by the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre is located at 1125 N. McCadden Place (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard), in Hollywood, 90038. During construction of the Center’s new facility, free parking is limited. Please allow extra time to find parking, or choose public transportation or a ride service such as Lyft or Uber.

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03-08-17

NEWS RELEASE ▪︎ THE OPEN CIRCLE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS “WAITING FOR GODOT” ▪︎ OPENS SATURDAY 3/25 at 8pm

THE OPEN CIRCLE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

WAITING FOR GODOT

BY SAMUEL BECKETT

DIRECTED BY DANIEL J. WILNER 

OPENS SATURDAY, MARCH 25

FOUR WEEKS ONLY

THE OTHER SPACE @ THE ACTORS COMPANY

PREVIEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 23 & FRIDAY, MARCH 24

The Open Circle Theatre Company has announced a new production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, directed by Daniel J. Wilner. There will be two preview performances on March 23 and March 24 at 8pm, and opening is set for Saturday, March 25 at 8pm. Waiting for Godot will play a limited engagement through April 16 at The Other Space @ The Actors Company in West Hollywood.

The cast will include (in alphabetical order) Tommy Day Carey, Joseph Culliton, Perry Powell, and Douglas Scott Sorenson. Set design is by Liam Moore and the stage manager is Sarah Savitch. Waiting for Godotis produced by Meredith Treinen and Daniel J. Wilner for the Open Circle Theatre Company.

Named “the most significant play of the 20^th century” in a poll of theatre professionals, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is a hilarious, moving, disquieting exploration of human existence. The play follows two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, as they pass the time waiting for a mysterious figure who could save them from their troubles. This distinctive production will be staged in the round in a small black–box theatre, creating an intimacy between audience and performers that will offer a unique experience of the play’s empathy and humanity.

Director Daniel J. Wilner is a writer, director, and producer of theatre, film, and television. He studied philosophy at Harvard, and philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Along the way, he worked extensively in the theatre, most notably playing the title role inHamlet and directing Beckett shorts, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. He is currently developing several film and television projects with executive producer Mark Gordon. Wilner has made short films for the Bravo! Channel, the National Film Board of Canada, and Aeon digital magazine. His latest short, Michael Lost and Found, will be released on Netflix in late 2017.

Preview performances of Waiting for Godot are on Thursday, March 23 at 8pm and Friday, March 24 at 8pm. Opening is set for Saturday, March 25 at 8pm. The running schedule is Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm and 7pm through April 16 only. General seating admission is $45. Lower–priced tickets ($30) are available for online purchases made in advance for performances through April 2 (discount will not be valid at the door). Use code ‘earlybird’ when ordering. Tickets are available now at http://godotla.bpt.me or at (888) 693-8507.

The Other Space @ The Actors Company is located at 916A N. Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood.

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