M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc.

M&M History

 
 
 

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. 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 (TANYS) and went on to represent the State of NY at the Eastern States Theatre Association’s Festival (ESTA) in April 2003 in Maryland.  Also in 2003, they were named Hudson Valley Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice” for the brilliant production of Comedies at Work; a series of corporate satires by award-winning authors, Albi Gorn 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 geographically 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 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 Kramer in The Journal News, applauding their daring readings of Salomé and developing a local author’s play on Emily Dickinson, Feathers Sometimes Soar on the Breath of God by Ward James Riley.  Summer 2008 found M&M co-producing a dance-performance piece by Virgin Dance, Salt Lake, the Ballet for the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival that was featured in The New York Times. 2009 brought M&M to TANYS and ESTA Festivals again, where they took first place and moved on to the National Festival, with two one-acts by Albi Gorn,. These one-acts were incorporated into M&M’s Dream Lovers and Others, by Albi Gorn in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival. And, M&M was selected as a Westchester Magazine’s “Best of Westchester” for Theatre in 2009. M&M Productions is proud to be an active member of Theatre Resources Unlimited and produced a play for their 10th Annual TRU Voices Play Reading Series at the Players Theatre in NYC in June 2008. 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.
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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
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
The Good Doctor by Neil Simon

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"The Importance of Being Earnest"

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"Chapter Two" for 2008

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