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M-Wil Productions of Las Vegas, a brand new theater group in town, is hard at work preparing two different shows for this year’s Fringe Festival at the Las Vegas Little Theater. Founder Matt Martello is producing a collection of ten minute plays he wrote called “Theater Roulette.” He is also directing his full length play “Ex Dating,” which was the 3rd Place winner of the New Works Competition at LVLT for 2014.

The group is honoring two gentlemen who enjoyed long careers in theater: Don Martello (nicknamed ‘Mr. M’) who was a speech and drama teacher at Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois from 1965-1990 and Harold J. Wilcox (nicknamed ‘Wil’) who was a French and drama teacher at high schools in Michigan for over 30 years. Both had a large influence on Matt, not only in regards to theater, but life in general.

Included in “Theater Roulette” are the following ten minute plays: “Wasted Words,” “Fremont Street,” “Diane’s First Date,” “Play Limbo,” “Craigslist Dot Wrong” and “The Inevitable End.” The ensemble of actors

include Kevin Herrera, J.P. Hucke, Rebecca Kennard, Morgan La Spina, Michael Morfey, Richard Rosario, Natalie Senecal, Sega Shines, Kandice Upshur and Lindsey Wilcox. Directing duties are divided up between Kevin Herrera, Matt Martello and Lindsey Wilcox.

“Ex Dating” is a play about dating, love, sex, friendship and betrayal in the modern world. Appearing in the show are Leonardo Dominguez, Meagan Moser, Alexsis Neuman, Kandice Upshur and Kihapiilani Akui. Both productions will be stage managed by Jasmine Glick.

Las Vegas Little Theater’s Fringe Festival will be on the weekends of June 6th through 15th. LVLT is in the process of scheduling all of the shows from the various theater groups who have entries. For updates on specific performance times for “Theater Roulette” and “Ex Dating,” you can ‘Like’ their facebook page: M-Wil Productions of Las Vegas. For more information about the Fringe Festival, contact the Las Vegas Little Theater at www.lvlt.org.

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M-WIL PRODUCTIONS OF LAS VEGAS TAKES THE STAGE WITH TWO SHOWS AT FRINGE FESTIVAL 2014

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