Exclusive: Real-life couple Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan to star together in “Role/Play”

Guest House Films has just shared with me that it is teaming up out actors Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan for the film Role/Play which is scheduled to begin production in May.

The actors are a couple off-screen and but this marks their first major film roles opposite each other although both actors appear in the upcoming film, Pornography: A Thriller, and in the touring company of the Terrence McNally play Corpus Christi.

Steve, who has starred in gay faves East Side Story and Nine Lives, will star as Graham Windsor, a soap opera star recently outed in the press.

Matthew’s many film credits include Long-Term Relationship, Back Soon, Socket and Redwoods. He will play Trey Reed, a gay marriage activist dealing with the media backlash following his own divorce.  The two characters cross paths at a secluded Palm Springs resort, where they find common ground as they discuss their individual quests for fame and the fickle nature of what it means to be a gay celebrity.

The drama will be written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Rob Williams whose most recent hit was Make the Yuletide Gay. A sequel to Yuletide will go into production next year.

Role/Play has already been booked at multiple gay film festivals across the country; screenings will be announced soon.

“In my mind, there were no actors more perfectly suited to play these roles than Matthew and Steve,” says Williams, co-founder of Guest House Films.  “Not only do they each have a track record of putting out quality performances time and time again, but their off-screen chemistry will certainly translate into on-screen fireworks.”

With this new production, Guest House Films also is giving its fans a special opportunity to be part of the film.  On the Guest House Films web site (www.GuestHouseFilms.com), fans can pre-order the DVD of Role/Play and have their names featured in the “Special Thanks” portion of the film’s closing credits in addition to receiving an exclusive email newsletter on the film’s progress.