M&M History

M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc.

Quality Live Theatre in Intimate Settings

M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. History
M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. cofounders, Melinda O'Brien and Michael Muldoon, are committed to developing quality, live theatre and bringing it into intimate settings throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond. For M&M Productions, all the world truly is a stage. M&M is closely associated with YCP TheaterWorks and also works in conjuction with other local theatre companies. In 2002, M&M's production of ART, by Yasmina Reza, was named "Best Short Production" at the 43rd Annual Theatre Association of NY State Festival and went on to represent NY at the Eastern States Theatre Association's Festival in April 2003 in Maryland. Also in 2003, they were named Hudson Valley Magazine's "Editor's Choice" for their brilliant production of Comedies at Work; a series of corporate satires by award-winning authors, Abli Gron and Jim Whalen. In addition, the company was featured in The New York Times for their sizzling staging of Dinner with Friends. In 2004, M&M inaugurated the Hudson Valley Fringe Theatre Festival, bringing innovative performances to four georgraphically diverse theatres and in 2006 produced their first juried one-act Festival titled Keep Breathing. Two crowd-pleasing plays from that Festival were chosen for performance in the 31st Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival for June 2006, and one, The Rub, was selected as a finalist. Also in 2006, M&M's excellent Alice in Wonderland adapted and directed by Marilyn Heberling, was selected as one of three "must sees" in Westchester County by Channel 12. In January 2007, a full page article appeared on M&M titled, "Library Impresarios," by Peter Krame in The Journal News, applauding their daring readings of Salome and developing local author, Ward James Riley's play on Emily Dickenson. Summer 2008 found M&M co-producing a dance-performance piece by Virgin Dance, Salt Lake, for the NY International Fringe Festival that was featured in The New York Times on August 26th. Next, M&M is co-producing a new musical by Paul Dick at the Roy Arias Theatre on 43rd Street in NYC in June 2009. M&M Productions is a proud and active member of Theatre Resources Unlimited and produced a play for their TRU VOICES Reading Series in June 2008 at the Players Theatre in NYC. With over 60 productions traveling to more than 45 venues in the Hudson Valley, M&M continues to tickle, shock and inspire audiences, producing classics, contemporary plays and developing new works. To reach us email MMLibraryTheatreAThotmail.com (change the AT for @ to help stop spam)	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 & Melinda O'Brien 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 with YCP TheaterWorks 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 with YCP TheaterWorks 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 at the Hudson Valley Fringe Festival 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 Doubt by John Patrick Shanley Bloody Murder by Ed Sala Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball Once/Twice by Paul Dick with PASSAJJ Productions Dream Lover by Albi Gorn Coming in Autumn of 2009: Rabbit Hole and The Good Doctor
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
"Chapter Two" for 2008