Announcing: Matt Morillo’s ‘Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans with High-Class Issues’ Premieres as Web Series Oct. 11

OCTOBER 11, 2013 IS A BIG DAY FOR
MATT MORILLO’S INTERNATIONAL CULT HIT PLAY
ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN LOW-RISE JEANS
WITH HIGH-CLASS ISSUES

NEW WEB SERIES BASED ON THE PLAY PREMIERES;
SANTA ANA COLLEGE OPENS TWO-WEEK RUN
OF THE SHOW

Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues, Matt Morillo’s cult hit play that had various sold-out runs in New York, Los Angeles, and in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, is set to make its debut as a web series on October 11. That same day, Santa Ana College will open its production of the original stage play at 8pm. Playwright Matt Morillo, along with Jessica Moreno, producer and leading actress in the original New York and Los Angeles runs, will participate in a Q&A following the performance.

The web series, which will be available at www.angryyoungwomen.net, focuses on the lives of a bunch of twenty-and-thirty-somethings facing the eternal battle of the sexes through their awkward and messy adventures into the complex contemporary American social scene. Each episode will humorously and irreverently tackle issues such as female body objectification, interracial dating, sexual mores, generation gaps, and awkward sexual situations. It will all be done in the spirit of the play which was funny, raunchy, confronting, and most definitely a conversation starter.

Created by Matt Morillo and developed and produced by Morillo and Jessica Moreno, the web series stars (in alphabetical order) Cynthia Aldrich, Seth Austin, Dingani Beza, Becky Tahel Bordo, Jason Drumwright, Kandis Erickson, Alex Feldman, Drea Garcia, Mikayla Ryan Gibson, Carter Haley, Jenni Halina, Brooke Hasalton, Keenan Henson, Emily Lappi, Jessica Moreno, Jennifer Lane Oakley, and Jaret Sacrey. The cast includes several students from Santa Ana College.

For more information on the web series and the original play, visit www.angryyoungwomen.net. Tickets for performances at Santa Ana College on October 11, 12, 18, and 19 at 8pm are available online at www.sac.edu/theatre/Events/Pages/default.aspx or by phone at (714) 564-5661.

The much talked about slogan for the play was, “Even though it’s a play, it doesn’t suck,” so it follows that the new slogan is, “Even though it’s a web series, it doesn’t suck.”

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10-03-13

Announcing: Matt Morillo’s ‘Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans with High-Class Issues’ to Become Web Series

MATT MORILLO’S CULT HIT PLAY
ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN LOW-RISE JEANS
WITH HIGH-CLASS ISSUES
SET TO BECOME WEB SERIES

Kings and Desperate Men Productions has announced that Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues, Matt Morillo’s cult hit play that had various sold-out runs in New York (including off-Broadway in 2007), Los Angeles, as well as Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, is now set to become a web series. Writer/director Morillo (who had claimed to be finished directing the play after its sixth New York run in 2011), along with Jessica Moreno, producer and leading actress in the original New York and Los Angeles runs, have decided to revive the brand and create an original web series.

The series will focus on the lives of a bunch of twenty-and- thirty-somethings facing the eternal battle of the sexes through their awkward and messy adventures into the complex contemporary American social scene. Each episode will humorously and irreverently tackle confronting issues such as female body objectification, interracial dating, sexual mores, generation gaps, and awkward sexual situations. It will all be done in the spirit of the play which was funny, raunchy, confronting, and most definitely a conversation starter.

The continued licensing of the show, specifically at colleges including the run just commissioned by Santa Ana College for October 2013, and the popularity of several of the play’s monologues as audition pieces by the younger generation led Morillo to believe that there was more to be done. He reunited with Moreno and development of the web series began. Other original cast members Keenan Henson and Jason Drumwright, Jenni Halina, who performed in the final New York production, along with several students who will be performing in the Santa Ana run, were brought onto the project.

For more info on Angry Young Women, please visit www.angryyoungwomen.net. A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to raise $15,000 for production of the first season of Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues: The Web Series. The funding period ends on Friday, June 14; to donate, please visit http://tinyurl.com/kmy5fwy.

The much talked about slogan for the play was, “Even though it’s a play, it doesn’t suck,” so it follows that the new slogan will be, “Even though it’s a web series, it doesn’t suck.”

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06-04-13

Announcing: “The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend” Opens June 2 at the Lounge Theatre

KADM PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCES
WEST COAST PREMIERE OF
THE INVENTOR, THE ESCORT, THE PHOTOGRAPHER,
HER BOYFRIEND AND HIS GIRLFRIEND
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MATT MORILLO

NEW SEX COMEDY BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT
ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN LOW-RISE JEANS
WITH HIGH-CLASS ISSUES
OPENS JUNE 2, 2012 AT THE LOUNGE THEATRE
FOR SIX WEEKS ONLY

KADM Productions has announced the West Coast premiere of The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend, Matt Morillo’s raucous new sex comedy, for a limited engagement at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. There will be one preview performance on June 1, with opening night set for Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 8:00. The Inventor … will play through July 8.

The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend is an outrageous sex romp, juxtaposing two lusty comic scenarios involving five people in a New York City apartment building during a fierce blizzard. Downstairs, Julia, a call girl, arrives for an appointment with Jeffrey, a nerdy guy who has made a fortune inventing and selling sexual devices. What begins as a routine ‘trick’ has quite the unexpected ending. In the meanwhile, upstairs neighbors Karen and John, an estranged couple, settle in for an evening of sweet reconciliation and make-up sex. Their plans go awry, however, when Molly, a young dancer with whom John had dallied, arrives seeking refuge from the blizzard. Drunken lunacy ensues.

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, and American Soldiers. Also a screenwriter, 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).

Directed by Morillo, the cast of The Inventor … will feature (in alphabetical order) Jeffrey Cannata, Isidora Goreshter, Jenni Halina, Jessica Moreno, and Jaret Sacrey. The set design is by Dan Mailley, and the lighting and sound designs are by Matt Richter. The stage manager is Rebecca Schoenberg, and The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend is produced for KADM Productions by Racquel Lehrman and Theatre Planners.
There will be one preview performance of The Inventor … on Friday, June 1 at 8pm. Opening night is set for Saturday, June 2 at 8:00. General seating admission is $10 for the preview, and $20 for regular performances. The running schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm, and Sunday at 7pm, through July 8 only. Tickets are on sale now, and may be purchased online at www.plays411.com/escort, or by calling (323) 960-7712.

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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05-07-12