Written by Rose Martula

Directed by Morgan Early

CAST:

Marty - Jason Shepard

Frankie - Carly Reeves

Joey - Eric Ancker

Betty - Briana Lane

Beep - Kelsey Jessup

Boo - Lauren Eckstrom

Vito - Albert Meijer

Pookey - Trevor Algatt

ABOUT RAN WILD

Stuck with the kids on his only boys' night out, a tough-talking father, Marty, has no choice, but to drag along his two sons to his favorite club in the city.  A normally absent, emotionally distant father, Marty now has sole custody of Joey and Frankie after his ex-wife's heroin addiction has deemed her unfit to parent.  Not knowing how to connect, Marty abandons the boys in the bathroom all night. The story of two boys lost in the night.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM

Rose Martula received a BFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA in playwriting at UCLA.  She was first produced as a playwright off-broadway at the Vineyard Theater in New York City during the Young Playwrights Festival with her full-length play Packed. Since then she’s had productions at the Francis Ford Copolla One-Act Play Festival, the New Play Festival at UCLA, the Acme Theatre at UC Davis, and Serious Play! Theater Company. She’s also had staged readings at Powerhouse Theater at NY Stage and Film and Soho Rep Theater in New York.

Her plays have received positive feedback from the Mark Taper Forum, The Royal Court Theatre in London, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, The Chesterfield Film Project, the Geffen Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla Playhouse, Glimmer Train, The Magic Theatre, The Manhattan Theatre Club, and Yale University.  Her one act play, Drink Up Baby was selected as a semi-finalist at PlayLabs at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis.  Two of her full-lengths, Salsa Saved The Girls and The Color of Ice, were both selected as winners of the Skirball Mckennis award.

Rose Martula’s short stories have been published in Merlyn’s Pen, the Monologue Shop, the Salt River Review, Columbia College’s Hair Trigger 21 &22, and Lemon Puppy. She went on to win the David C. Baumgarden award from APA Literary Agency and the Scholastic Press Award from Columbia University for best traditional fiction in a college literary magazine.

Morgan Early is currently completing study for her BA from UCLA. She most recently appeared as Ellen in the ensemble’s American production of Wounded. Her training includes study at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University, The Lee Strasberg Institute, and the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television.