A Co-Production of the Midtown International Theatre Festival, Mad Mel and the Marradians will be directed by the award-winning Carlo Fiorletta. It will star Jordan Auslander (Phlegm), William Beckwith (Larynx), Rachel Caccese (Joan), Rob Gaines (Mel) and Mary Riley (Anita). The play will be performed at the Main Stage Theatre, 312 West 36th Street in New York on Monday, July 11 at 6PM; Saturday, July 16, at 2:30PM; Tuesday, July 19, at 8:30PM; Sunday, July 24, at 6PM; and Thursday, July 28, at 8PM. Tickets are $18-$15 and are available at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/834935 or by phone at 866-811-4111.
In Mad Mel and the Marradians, the ambitions of Imperial Chancellor Larynx of Marradia -- a planet very far away -- to become High Priest Dubya are threatened by writer Melvin Worthington. In his best-selling “scholarly” books about the Marradians and their visit to Earth 30,000 years ago (which he thinks he has completely made up), Worthington stumbles upon a secret that threatens the existence of the human race – bringing the aliens to Manhattan to stop him.
As the Marradians would say: Kabob drek manu, Terrans!
MAD MEL AND THE MARRADIANS
GARY MORGENSTEIN/PLAYWRIGHT
Gary Morgenstein’s previous plays are A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx and Ponzi Man. His novels include Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman, Jesse’s Girl, Take Me Out to the Ballgame and The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees as well as the dating book How to Find a Woman…Or Not. Morgenstein is co-host of the popular Sunday night MediaBlvd Purple Haze radio show. Morgenstein is Director, Communications, Syfy.
CARLO FIORLETTA/DIRECTOR
The award-winning director Carlo Fiorletta is associate producer of the upcoming feature film Surviving Family. Fiorletta directed Mara Lesemann’s plays Fertility Factor and A Temporary Cat, and Gary Morgenstein’s A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx. He also wrote and directed two award-winning short movies, Nipple Nazis and Calamity 666, along with The Last Supper and All About Audition. He is President, Guild of Italian-American Actors (GIAA).
JORDAN AUSLANDER/PHLEGM
Jordan Auslander (Phlegm) has starred in numerous theatre productions such as La Salon, Tall, Sex Without Pliers, Dear Whore, Getting In, Female Bonding, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Institutions, Godfather’s Meshuggener Wedding, The Stolen Child and Venom! He also appeared in the films Defending the King and Sunday with Albert and Mandy