About the author:
After finishing college and film school in 2000, John Pollono moved to Los Angeles to establish a career as a screenwriter. And yet, as soon as the New Hampshire-born writer and actor began taking classes at Howard Fine Studio, he became enthralled by the character-, dialogue- and performance-driven stories coming out of theater. He started the Jabberwocky Theatre Company in 2004, which morphed into Rogue Machine Theatre in 2008, and has earned critical acclaim and several L.A. theater awards for his plays, including Lost and Found and Lost Girls. BElow, Pollono reveals what inspired him to write and star in Small Engine Repair, a pitch-black comic drama about three pals who gather in a grimy workshop for some serious drinking, reminiscing and musing about the mysteries of social networking. See MCC Theater's explosive production, which co-stars James Badge Dale, James Ransone and Keegan Allen, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
The first spark for Small Engine Repair actually happened a few blocks from the Lucille Lortel. And (like the play) it involved booze and beer and a bit of fighting.
In the summer of 2010, I wrote and acted in a play called Lost and Found ...