MONSTERS OF MAN: A SUPERNATURAL ANTHOLOGY, CASTING AND SHOWDATES

LOS ANGELES (May 22, 2019) – MB Stage Productions announces production dates and cast for “Monsters of Man: A Supernatural Anthology” written by MB Stage Company Member, Sarah Ruttan Monsters of Man is the next play in their ‘Nerds Gone Deep Series’. The show explores the inner and external workings of the human psyche in a series of nine vignettes. The pieces combine elements of the everyday with a splash of the supernatural. A journey through the stories and lives of individuals who show that sometimes the most terrifying monsters of all are the ones we create ourselves and the things we fear are not always the creatures that go bump in the night.

MONSTERS OF MAN: A SUPERNATURAL ANTHOLOGY
Written by Sarah Ruttan
Directed by Sarah Ruttan, Mel Glickman, and Cooper Knight

CAST:
Anthony LePage, Bennett Cousins, Danielle Joelle Carter, Heidi Shon, Jakob Hankins, Jon Christie, Layna Martinez, Makenna Rae Tynan, Marcus Rucks, Noelle Hensler, Ritchie Hann, Toni Tinkelman

Performances:
The Flight Theater at The Complex Hollywood
6472 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Tickets: $10
mbstage.com/tickets
Or
hff19.org/6214

Saturday June 8th (preview) 10:00 pm
Saturday June 15th (opening) 12:00 am (midnight, listed as Sunday 16th)
Wednesday June 19th 10:30pm
Saturday June 22nd 12:30 am (midnight, listed as Sunday the 23rd)
Saturday June 29th 12:30 am (midnight, listed as Sunday the 30th)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Cooper Knight (co-director), is an AMDA Alumni, LA-based performer and writer. They’re excited and humbled to be here on their second ever real-world adventure into the world of directing, after years of theater experience.

Mel Glickman (co-director) is an actor, theatre-maker, and fight choreographer from Baltimore, MD. They trained at NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing where they studied devised theatre and directing with Kate Whoriskey and Rosemary Quinn. Mel began directing, fight choreographing, and fight directing in 2010; since then, they have directed and choreographed for New York’s Fight Theatre, as well as Baltimore’s Spotlighters Theatre and Cohesion Theatre Company. Since moving to LA in 2016, they have fight and intimacy directed for Cotton Blend Production’s The London Rose and Q Youth Foundation’s Eastside Queer Stories. Mel has been performing with MB Stage since 2017, and they are honored and thrilled to have been invited on to their production team at the beginning of 2019.

Sarah Ruttan (co-director/writer/producer) Has worked with MBStage Productions for over four years, (first as an actor, then as part of the production team) Sarah is excited to drive headfirst into her first ever roles as Writer/Co-Director/Producer of The Monsters of Man. A graduate of AMDA: The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Sarah has spent the last five years learning all she can about every aspect of the industry. And for a small town girl coming to the big world, she’s happy to say she’s had a blast doing so. She hopes above all else that you enjoy her writing debut with The Monsters of Man: A Supernatural Anthology.

ABOUT MB STAGE PRODUCTIONS
MB Stage Productions has been part of the Los Angeles theater scene since 2013. Their company motto is “Seeing something on screen is one thing. Seeing it live? Game over.” They actively seek to tell stories with a “nerd aesthetic” inspired largely by video game culture and the vision of founders Jared Tyrel Pixler, David Evan Stolworthy and Katie Lynn who attended AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing arts together. In 2015 the company found success in their production of THE VIDEO GAMES which ran for three years, won several awards, toured comic conventions, fringe festivals nationwide, and ran Off-Broadway for seven months. MB Stage Productions believes there is nothing more powerful than an intimate and live performance to take you away to another world. They currently run two different theater programs: Nerds Gone Deep, which focuses on powerful and thought-provoking plays, dance pieces, and musicals; and Nerd Theatre, which is centered around geek and nerd culture, interactive storylines, and non-traditional theatrical boundaries. In 2018, the company took over operation of a summer arts camp in Torrance, CA and began working with other parts of the community to bring theatre and the arts to young artists. mbstage.com