Archived entries for Matt Morillo

NEWS RELEASE — WEST COAST PREMIERE OF “ALLEN WILDER 2.0” ▪︎ WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY MATT MORILLO ▪︎ OPENS SATURDAY 4/29 at The Lounge Theatre

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KADM PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

A WEST COAST PREMIERE

ALLEN WILDER 2.0

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MATT MORILLO

FEATURING

FARIDA AMER, EILEEN GRUBBA AND TOM PILUTIK 

A NEW PLAY

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING SMASH HITS

ALL ABOARD THE MARRIAGE HEARSE

AND

THE INVENTOR AND THE ESCORT

OPENS APRIL 29 AT THE LOUNGE THEATRE

FOR FOUR WEEKS ONLY

Allen Wilder 2.0KADM Productions has announced the West Coast premiere of Allen Wilder 2.0, written and directed by Matt Morillo, at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood for four weeks only beginning April 28. The cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Farida Amer, Eileen Grubba and Tom Pilutik. There will be one preview performance on Friday, April 28 and opening is set for Saturday, April 29 at 8pm. The limited engagement will run through May 21 only.

The set and lighting design are by Rene Parras, Jr., and the casting director is Michael Donovan, CSA.  Allen Wilder 2.0 is produced for KADM Productions by Joanne Hartstone.

In Allen Wilder 2.0, a director of softcore porn returns from Hollywood to his dead parents’ house in Levittown, Long Island, to sort through his belongings and re-examine his life. Can a chance meeting with his former babysitter and his estranged niece soothe the wounds of the failure he feels? Is it too late? His search for redemption gets comic treatment in this new play.

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 the award-winners All Aboard the Marriage Hearse and The Inventor and The Escort. 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, includingMaid of Honor (2003).

Allen Wilder 2.0 will play one preview performance on Friday, April 28 at 8pm and opening is set for Saturday, April 29 at 8pm. The running schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm, through May 21 only. General seating admission is $15 for the preview and $25 for regular performances. Tickets are on sale now, and may be purchased online atwww.kadm.com or by calling (323) 960-7792.

The Lounge Theatre is located at 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard (just east of Vine, at El Centro), in Hollywood, 90038. Street parking is available.

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 04–04–17

 

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

 

NEWS RELEASE — “ALL ABOARD THE MARRIAGE HEARSE” BY MATT MORILLO — SIX PERFS ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

All Aboard the Marriage HearseKADM Productions has announced a Hollywood Fringe Festival production of All Aboard the Marriage Hearse, a romantic seriocomic play written and directed by Matt Morillo. Featuring Jessica Moreno and Tom Pilutik, there will be six performances at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood — Saturday 6/4 at 6pm (press preview); Friday 6/10 at 8pm; Saturday 6/11 at 10pm; Friday 6/17 at 6pm; Saturday 6/18 at 8pm; and Sunday 6/19 at 4pm. Running time will be 70 minutes.

Sean and Amy are your typical co-habiting Catholic/Jewish thirty-something couple living in Manhattan. After four years together, Amy wants to get married but Sean doesn’t. Sean will try to talk Amy out of marriage; Amy will try to talk Sean into it. Will they break up? Will they keep traveling on the same path? Or will they climb aboard the ‘Marriage Hearse?’

All Aboard the Marriage Hearse had its world premiere in New York City in 2008. The play also caught the attention of renowned marriage counselor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach who began a public debate with playwright Morillo on the institution of marriage. In 2015, All Aboard the Marriage Hearse ran to great acclaim in Croatia and Mexico and is now receiving productions throughout the USA. In this new production at the Hollywood Fringe, Jessica Moreno returns for the first time to the role she created in the play’s 2008 debut.

Award-winning playwright/director Matt Morillo made his theatrical debut in New York with Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues. The play had an off-Broadway run in 2007, followed by multiple engagements in Hollywood, and Sydney, Australia. Angry Young Women enjoyed several return engagements in 2009, 2010, and 2011. It also ran in the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (as well as being developed into a web series). All Aboard the Marriage Hearse, similar to Angry Young Women, traveled the world, having successful runs in Ohio, Illinois, Mexico, and Croatia. Morillo’s first serious play, American Soldiers, a family drama about a woman war veteran’s return to her home in Long Island, has been produced in New York, Hollywood, and Florida. All three plays have been published by Samuel French. Morillo’s next play, a return to comedy with The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend, had an acclaimed Los Angeles engagement followed by a run at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won the Fringe Review Tea Pot Award for Best Theatre Performance. Morillo’s latest play, the serio-comic Allen Wilder 2.0, is about an alcoholic, soft-core porn director trying to put his life back together, was recently performed in New York to critical acclaim.

Tickets for All Aboard the Marriage Hearse are $15 and may be obtained online at http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/3605?tab=tickets or www.kadm.com, or by phone at (323) 455-4585. The Lounge Theatre is located at 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard (just east of Vine, at El Centro), in Hollywood, 90038. Street parking is available.

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05-05-16