Announcing: Matt Morillo’s ‘American Soldiers’ Will Play 4 Perfs at American Legion Hollywood Post 43

MATT MORILLO’S
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
WILL PLAY FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY
AT AMERICAN LEGION HOLLYWOOD POST 43
PERFORMED BY CAST OF MILITARY VETERANS
NOVEMBER 11—14

A cast of military veterans is set to perform American Soldiers, a play by Matt Morillo, at American Legion Hollywood Post 43, opening on Veteran’s Day, Monday, November 11 at 8pm. The play had its world premiere in 2010 at Theater for the New City in New York. Since that time, as the subject of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has become very prominent, American Soldiers has been finding new and growing audiences.

American Soldiers tells the story of the Colletti Family, an upper middle class suburban family being torn apart when the eldest daughter returns from Iraq with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Carlo Sr., the patriarch and PTSD sufferer from his time in Vietnam, must try and keep the family together while confronting his own responsibility in his daughter’s suffering. The play examines the power of family destiny, the urge of children to break away, and an American culture that subjects generation after generation to the horrors of war.

Sergeant Drea Garcia, an Iraq veteran who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003-2008, is the force behind this brief run of American Soldiers at American Legion Hollywood Post 43, and she will perform in the play. Directed by Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient Luis F. Soto, the cast will also include Iraq veterans Staff Sergeant Robert Kugler and Staff Sergeant Chris Loverro, Vietnam-era veteran Max Thayer, along with civilian Cynthia Aldrich, who has performed in the play before. The set and lighting design are by P. David Miller. The producers are Drea Garcia, Jessica Moreno and Matt Morillo.

All proceeds will benefit Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization that unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams. For more information, visit www.TeamRubiconUSA.org.

American Soldiers opens on Monday, November 11 at 8pm. Performances will continue Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, November 12, 13, and 14 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased online at www.plays411.com/americansoldiers or via phone at (323) 960-7738. American Legion Hollywood Post 43 is located at 2035 Highland Avenue in Los Angeles, 90068.

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10-31-13

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