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M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc.

Quality Live Theatre in Intimate Settings

M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. History
History of M&M M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. is the Tri-State Area's premier mobile theatrical troupe and works in conjunction with YCP TheaterWorks, a 46 year old community theatre company. M&M Productions co-founders, Melinda O'Brien and Michael J. Muldoon, developed the Library Theatre Series to bring quality, live theatre into intimate settings throughout the Hudson Valley. Starting in 1995, a workshop production of Love Letters was produced by Melinda O’Brien for YCP TheaterWorks, traveling to 12 different locations with 9 casts and 9 directors. This traveling show was such a success that the idea was revived in 2000 with the nail-biter, Specter and has grown ever since. In 2002, M&M Productions’ Art, by Yasmina Reza, was named “Best Short Production” at the 43rd Annual Theatre Association of New York State Festival and went on to represent the State of NY at the Eastern States Theatre Association’s Festival in April 2003. Also in 2003, named Hudson Valley Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice” for the production of Comedies at Work, and featured in The New York Times for Dinner with Friends. In 2004, M&M inaugurated the Hudson Valley Fringe Theatre Festival bringing innovative performances to four diverse theatres and in 2006 produced their first juried, one-act Festival called “Keep Breathing.” Two plays were selected for performance and one, The Rub, made it to the finals at the 31st Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival for June 2006. M&M continues to strive to be the best of the best with over 60 productions at more than 50 venues in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties, Connecticut and New Jersey. Recent productions of: The Exonerated, The Price, Talley's Folly, Sylvia, Three Tall Women and many more wonderful plays have engaged and excited our audiences.	Plays Produced by M&M Productions Specter by Don Nigro Mr. Dickens tells A Christmas Carol adapted by Melinda O'Brien Love Letters by AR Gurney The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang Thirty Odd Years by Ric Siler Screw the Rules by Jeff Virgo Go to Sleep by Jeremy Feig The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A Ghost Story adapted by Philip Cutrone Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher The Hitch-hiker by Lucille Fletcher Third & Oak: the Laundromat by Marsha Norman Blind Date by Horton Foote Pushing Buttons by Karen Quinn The Open Meeting by AR Gurney Unpublished Letters by Jonathan Levine The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Stepping Out by Richard Harris Art by Yasmina Reza You Imperfect Speakers by Barrett Clark Job Interview by Jim Whelan Verbatim by Albi Gorn The Rub by Albi Gorn Dear Liar by Jerome Kilty The Substitute Tooth Fairy by Jeff Fuerst Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies Would You Like a Potato Latke by Gail Drucker Deck the Tree by Staci Swedeen Margaret by Gail Drucker Feliz Navidad by Staci Swedeen The Carpetbagger’s Children by Horton Foote Vita & Virginia by Eileen Atkins Elegy for a Lady by Arthur Miller Some Kind of Love Story by Arthur Miller The Gypsy Wife by Bruce Pearl The Board Meeting by Karen Quinn The Dining Room by AR Gurney Proof by David Auburn Talking Heads “Portraits” by Alan Bennett The Exonerated by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade The Price by Arthur Miller Keep Breathing - One-Act Play Festival with a theme of Survival Bunker Mentality, by Alan Lutwin Community Service, by Patrick J. Lennon It’s About Forgiveness, by Albi Gorn Last Rites, by Donald Steele The Last Thanksgiving, by Rhoda Pauley The Vigil, by James Harker The Big Empty and Soccer Mom, both by Daphne Platt Feathers Sometimes Soar on the Breath of God by Ward James Riley A Number by Caryl Churchill Alice in Wonderland adapted by Marilyn Heberling Sylvia by AR Gurney Hughie by Eugene O’Neill Lady of Larkspur Lotion by Tennessee Williams The Compete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield Hearts & Arrows by Phyllis Kirigin Appalachian Fiddle Faddles by Marilyn Heberling Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson Three Tall Women by Edward Albee Thrice Upon a Mattress by Albi Gron Chapter Two by Neil Simon Art of Murder by Joe DePietro Having Our Say by Emily McMann with Amy Hill Hearth Our Lady of Famiglia by Anthony Valbiro Moonlight & Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson Fiction by Steven Dietz Rosie (the Riveter) by Adriana Rogers Hansel and Gretel adapted by Marilyn Heberling
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
"Chapter Two" for 2008