Matthew Isaac Minnicino
actor writer director teacher
his height short
his weight not much
his skills concert violinist & sundry fiddling
[ has sort of a silly voice ]
his voice baritone, give or take
[ but really would you ask him to sing? ]
his other stuff: Dramatists Guild of America
Project Y Playwrights Group 2020
Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGroup 2019-2020
Dorothy Stelsin New American Writers Group, 2018--
Pipeline Theatre 2017-18 PlayLab
Great Plains Theatre 2018 and 2019 Conference
Serials Writers' Room @ The Flea, 2018-19
The Joust's 2018 Writers' Round Table
Letter of Marque 2018 Ensemble Playwright
Everyday Inferno Writer/Director Lab 2016
[currently based in Manhattan, New York]
[in a large closet]
his writing (for theatre)
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WYRD MALEFACTIONS SOME PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD WRECKS (after oedipus) ARTAUD ARTAUD BIRDLAND (a tragedy) MARVELLOUS (an illuminated tale) FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE TROY IS BURNING (a goat-song) SUNSET PARK IN HINDSIGHT, MAYBE GHOSTS WERE A BAD IDEA PERSEPHONE FUNNY VOICES THE NAMING OF THINGS SERIALS @ THE FLEA RULE OF 7x7 PLAYS FOR YOUNG ACTORS THE BALLET OF THE UN-HATCHED CHICKS THE BODY IF YOU WANT MY HEART (COME AND TAKE IT) ROTENBURG A THING I CANNOT NAME SIXTH GRADE THE PITCH BAD TEETH THE GLOW-WORM CHANT D'AMOUR CARTHAGE [ DALLOWAY ] ARMADILLO FLUKE ANTIGONE HOMELESS GARDEN ACHERON FURIES: A NEW ORESTEIA THREE SISTERS CHILDREN OF THE SUN HEDDA (GABLER) THE DUEL CORPSE BACKPACK THE ENCHANTED REALM OF RENE MAGRITTE A MISANTHROPE UNTITLED #3 RPT BROTHER3 DREAMPLAY SECESSION ODD.A.SEE INHUME A SEAGULL DAUGHTER PLAY |
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(as Anon) Exquisite Corpse Company | HERE Arts Center | NYC, 2014 | dir. Jenny Beth Snyder Pipeline Theatre Company | Jefferson Market Library | NYC, 2018 | dir. Felicia Lobo Primary Stages | NYC, 2019 | dir. Dan Hasse* Great Plains Theatre Conference | Omaha, NE 2019* Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2019 Cradle Theatre Company | NYC, 2016 | dir. Lauren Z. Adleman Schapiro Theater | NYC, 2015 | dir. Anouk Kemp Cradle Theatre Company | NYC, 2015 | dir. Zach Fike Hodges* Eugene O'Neill Theater Center | Waterford, CT, 2016** Gorilla Tango Theatre Company | Chicago, IL, 2016 | dir. Kristina McCloskey Manhattanville College | 2018 | dir. Tara Elliott Semifinalist, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center New Plays Conference, 2017 Developed at The Barn Arts Collective | Bass Harbor, ME, 2016 | dir. Tara Elliott Barn Arts Festival | Cloud City, NYC, 2017 | dir. Tara Elliott* Wheel Theatre Co. | Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival | DC, 2017 | dir. Jack Read* Joust Theatre Company | Playwrights Downtown, NYC, 2018 | dir. Ilana Khanin* Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayLab | Omaha, NE, 2018 Semi-Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center New Plays Conference, 2018 Underling Productions | The Tank, NYC, 2016 | dir. Meghan Blakeman WSC Avant Bard | Washington, DC, 2017 | dir. Charlene V. Smith* Pershing Square Signature Center | NYC, 2015 | dir. Julia Sears*** James Madison University | Harrisonburg, Virginia | dir. Quill Nebeker* Dream Up Festival | Theater for a New City, 2015 | dir. Jake Beck w/ Artilliers Schapiro Theatre | Columbia University | NYC, 2014 | dir. Julia Sears The Flea Theatre | NYC, 2014 | dir. Anne Cecilia Haney* NYC International Fringe Festival, | 14th Street Y | 2014 | dir. Elizabeth Nearing The TRUF Theatre Company | Jimmy's No. 43 | 2014* WSC-Avant Bard Youth Readings | DC, 2017 | dir. Carol Cadby** Schapiro Theatre | Columbia University | NYC, 2013 | dir. Anouk Kemp Crashbox Theater Company Living Room Readings | NYC, 2016* University of Virginia Department of Drama | 2011 | dir. Richard Warner & J. P. Schiedler Winner: 2010 Clay E. Delauney Prize for Playwriting Nominee for the KCACTF National Student Playwriting Award Lunar Energy Productions | NYC, 2013 | dir. Nadia Sepsenwol Traumaturgy Productions | TheaterLab, NYC, 2017 | dir. Jolene Noelle LiveArts Theatre | Charlottesville, VA, 2020 | dir. Amalia Oswald Virginia Playwriting Society | Charlottesville, Virginia. 2010 | dir. Matt Minnicino Idly Bent Theatre Company | Charlottesville, Virginia, 2012 | dir. Anne Cecelia Haney Pleiades Productions | NYC, 2013 | dir. Estefania Fadul | NY International Fringe Festival developed as a short film by Bicephaly Productions | dir. Ani Simon-Kennedy The Survivalists | Upper West Side, NYC, 2014 | dir. Kate Downey Emerging Artists Theatre EATFest | TADA Youth Theater | dir. Anne Cecelia Haney NYC Fridge Festival | IRT Theatre, NYC, 2017 | dir. Kate Hopkins Winner: 2016 Arts & Letters Drama Prize | Georgia College GCSU | Georgia College, 2017 | dir. Iona Holder Sun One Act TheaterMania Theatre Festival | Charlottesville, Virginia, 2009 | dir. Laura Nessler Shenandoah Fringe Festival | 2010 | dir. Quill Nebeker Senior Studio Series | Wake Forest University, 2011 | dir. Rebecca Speas*** Latenite Theatre Festival | Columbia University, 2012 | dir. Christina McCarver James Madison University | 2014 | dir. Rachel Belleman Barrow Group Apprentice Company Student Reading Series | TBG Theatre | 2016* Cave Theatre Company Playwright's Open Mic | Under St. Mark's | 2017 "Noir Town" | Episodes 1-8 | 2017-18 | dir. Anne Cecilia Haney "Flee" (written with Lily Houghton) | 2018 | dir. Charles Quittner "Black Flag" | Episodes 1-4 | 2018 | dir. Kristan Seemel "Cast Party" | Episodes 1-5 | 2018-19 | dir. Dan Hasse "The Last Blockbuster" | 2019 | w/ Lily Houghton | dir. Tom Costello The VVoke | The Tank, 2019 | dir. Liz Livingston The Shade | The Tank, 2017 | dir. Jake Beckhard Bird/Bee | Wilson Players, Wilson High Schoo | Washington DC, 2009 | dir. Isabel Bush Symbiosis | Jamestown High School Theatre | Williamsburg, VA, 2010 | dir. Joshua Blum The Birth of Tragedy | Yorktown High School | Arlington, VA, 2019 | dir. Carol Cadby Murther Most Foul | Yorktown High School | Arlington, VA, 2019 | dir. Carol Cadby Black Snow | Yorktown High School | Arlington, VA, 2019 | dir. Carol Cadby No Boundaries Theatre Festival | Schapiro Theatre, NY | 2013 | dir. Keith Michael Pinault Play by Play | Alchemical Theatre Laboratory | 2015 | dir. Nik Aliye* Barrow Group Apprentice Company Student Reading Series | TBG Theatre | 2016* LiveArts 24-Hour Playwriting Festival | Charlottesville, 2012 | dir. John Holdren Latenite Theatre Festival | Columbia University, 2013 | dir. Tessa Slovis James Madison University | 2014 | dir. Katie Arthur Artilliers Play-in-a-Day 24 Hour Festival | NYC, 2016 | dir. Felicia Lobo Insomnium Theatre Company | NYC, 2016 Williamstown Theatre Festival, Directors' Studio | 2018 | dir. Raz Golden Boxed Wine Productions & ECC | NYC, 2013 | dir. Tess Howsam Play by Play | Alchemical Theatre Laboratory | 2015 | dir. Jake Beck* Love & Death: Collaboration Festival | Columbia | 2013 | dir. Chris Murrah Play by Play | Alchemical Theatre Laboratory | 2015 | dir. Lauren Z. Adleman* University of Denver Department of Theatre | Denver, Colorado | 2015 | dir. Adeline Mann Show of Shows | The PIT, NYC | 2019 | dir. Victoria Gruenberg Shenandoah Fringe Festival | 2010 | dir. Quill Nebeker CrazyBusy One-Minute Play Festival | LiveArts, Charlottesville, 2011 | dir. Ray Nedzel Act Out Festival | Mary Baldwin College | Staunton, Virginia, 2011 | dir. Danielle Guy Wrought & Repurposed: Collaboration Festival | Columbia | 2013 | dir. Dara Malina Exquisite Corpse 24-Hour Playwriting Festival | NYC, 2013 | dir. Jon Dalin The Weekend Play Experiment | Think Coffee | NYC, 2014 | prod. Nina Covalesky The Weekend Play Experiment | 1 Knickerbocker | NYC, 2014 | prod: Nina Covalesky Outta The Hat 24-Hour Play Festival | Coffeed | NYC, 2014 | prod. Nina Covalesky Collaborations & Adaptations Cherry Lane Theater | East 3rd Productions | NYC, 2017 | dir. Ricardo Reithmuller* Fugitive Kind Theatre | Los Angeles, 2018 | dir. Amanda McRaven Avant Bard | Washington DC, 2019 | dir. Jon Jon Johnson* Refracted Theatre Co. | Site-Specific, NYC, 2020 | dir. Graham Miller The Box Collective | Guildhall, East Hampton, NYC | dir. Julia Sears** Combative Theatre Company | NYC [w/ Omri Kadim]** Barn Arts Collective Chekhov Festival | Bass Harbor, ME, 2017 | dir. Julia Sears Old Sound Room | Lucid Body House, NYC, 2019 | dir. Anne Demelo* High School of the Performing Arts | NYC, 2019 | dir. Sharone Halevy Sugarglass Theatre | Trinity College-Dublin | dir. Marc Atkinson** The Irish Repertory Theatre | NYC, 2018 | " * Barn Arts Collective | Bass Harbor, ME, 2019 | " * Wandering Bark Theatre Company | NYC, 2016 | dir. Joseph Mitchell Parks Columbia Stages | NYC, 2016 | dir. NJ Agwuna Pipeline Theatre Company | NYC, 2017 | dir. Jaki Bradley & Tom Costello [w/ Jae Kramisen, Rick Burkhardt, KT Looney, Divya Mangwani, Amy Van Wijk] Exquisite Corpse Company | Governor's Island, NYC, 2016 | dir. Tess Howsam [w/ Emily Zemba, Laura Zlatos, Simon de Carvalho, T. Adamson, & Blake Bishton) Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Adaptation, 2020 Salon Series | Various, NYC, 2016 | dir. Benita de Wit used by Columbia MFA Acting Program for Moliere Studies | dir/instructor: Ulla Wolcz*** WSC-Avant Bard Scripts in Play | Washington DC, 2017 | dir. Rex Daughtry* Stripped Scripts Productions | Long Island City, 2019* Avant Bard | Washington DC, 2019 | dir. Megan Behm Exquisite Corpse Company | Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 2016 [w/ Laura Zlatos] Dance Piece | 92nd Street Y | NYC, 2018 | developed by Stephen Cyr and Courtney Laine Self Dance Piece | The Public Hotel | NYC, 2018 | dir. Ellie Nichols Artilliers | Chinatown Soup, NYC, 2015 | dir. Jake Beckhard Exquisite Corpse Theatre Co. | NYC, 2015 | dir. Tara Elliott (& Tess Howsam) Faux Real Festival | New Orleans, LA | dir. Tess Howsam [ with Laura Zlatos, Simon de Carvalho, Alexis Roblan, Blake Bishton, & Leah Barker ] Exquisite Corpse Theatre Co. | NYC, 2013 | dir. Tess Howsam [ with Laura Zlatos, Lavinia Roberts, and Blake Bishton ] Columbia Stages | Riverside Church | NYC, 2015 | dir. Misha Chowdhury SPACE on Ryder Farm | dir. Misha Chowdhury** Lunar Energy Productions | NYC, 2013 | dir. Maridee Slater* Columbia Stages | NYC, 2013 | dir. Maridee Slater Próva | Loft 227 | NYC, 2015 | dir. Sharone Halevy Guess Who? Festival | Columbia University | 2012 | dir. Anouk Kemp & Chris Murrah [ with Tabia Lau ] * - Reading **Workshop ***Academic/Thesis Production |
Troy is Burning // 2011
Artaud Artaud // 2015
Sunset Park // 2017
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script samples available at New Play Exchange
The Inquisitor // 2008
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his writing (for short film)STRAY Indie, 2019, dir. Nora Unkel
HENCH Bicephaly Productions, 2014, dir. Estefania Fadul/Ani Simon-Kennedy AT DEATH'S DOOR Adrenaline Film Project 2011; winner, Audience Favorite Award BERENICE (Adapted from Poe), Modest Productions, Virginia Student Film Festival at U.Va SCRATCH Modest Productions, 2009, dir. Jordan Pridgen THE COLOR OF GENIUS Richmond 48-Hour Film Festival, 2009, dir. Jordan Pridgen |
his acting
Adding Machine: A Musical // 2012
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Courage! To the Field
Blind Tasting (short film) King John (reading) The Seagull Three Sisters The Human Incubator (reading) The Divorce Party (reading) The Bacchae The Jester (short film) Henry V The Tragedy of Richard II Everyone Wants to Go to Lubbock Dream Play Richard III The Changeling Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 Othello Elsinore (reading) Wasps A Seagull A Winter's Tale King Lear Twelfth Night Gifted and Talented (short film) The Bacchae Adding Machine: A Musical Much Ado About Nothing Troy is Burning Parade A Midsummer Night's Dream The Seagull A Canticle for Humanity Five Chairs Hamlet Twelfth Night Richard II Much Ado About Nothing King Lear Measure for Measure Richard III The Taming of the Shrew Cyrano de Bergerac Measure for Measure The Importance of Being Earnest Hamlet Cymbeline Henry IV, Part II |
Falstaff / Worcester
Vlad Hubert de Burgh / Citizen Medvedenko Kulygin Dr. Ian Godfried Rick Tiresias Gary Fluellen Duke of York Duane The Lawyer Richard Lollio Sir John Falstaff Roderigo Polonius Mitch Manning, Trudy, Wasp Medvedenko Antigonus, Autolycus King Lear Sir Andrew Aguecheek The Musicologist (V.O.) Teiresias Boss, Fixer, Charles Don Pedro King Priam Officer Ivey, Ensemble Nick Bottom Yakov, Musician Smithson Delta, Himself James Polonius, Bernardo, Osric Sir Andrew Aguecheek Bagot, Salisbury, Gardener Don Pedro, First Watch Earl of Gloucester, Captain Claudio, Constable Elbow Richard III Baptista Minola, Curtis, Vincentio Vicomte de Valvert, Ensemble Pompey Bum Rev Canon Dr. Frederick Chasuble First Gravedigger, Ensemble Cloten, British Captain, Jupiter Justice Shallow, Doll Tearsheet |
The Renovationists, The Tank, 2019, dir. Emma Rosa Went
Means of Production, 2018, dir. Jeff White Shakespeare in the Square, 2018, dir. Yuriy Pavlish Columbia Stages, 2017, dir. Miriam Grill Barn Arts Collective, 2017, dir. Julia Sears/Elizabeth Nearing DCTV, 2017, dir. Julia Sears Cave Theatre Co., 2017, dir. James Mascovecchio Columbia MFA Program, 2016, dir. Mikhaela Mahoney 2016, dir. Aidan Bose Rosling 48-Hour Shakespeare, 2016 48-Hour Shakesepeare, 2016 Fresh Ground Pepper "Sounds Good," 2016, dir. Julia Sears Artilliers, dir. Jake Beckhard Schapiro Theatre, 2014, dir. Alex Elise Rose Easy Leap Theatre Co., 2014, dir. Emma Rosa Went Easy Leap Theatre Co., 2014, dir. Emma Rosa Went Easy Leap Theatre Co., 2013, dir. Emma Rosa Went The Lounge NYC, dir. Emma Rosa Went Columbia Stages, 2013, dir. Keith Michael Pinault Columbia Stages, 2013, dir. Maridee Slater Cradle Theatre, 2013, dir. Rebecca Etzine Horace Mann Theatre, dir. Sharone Halevy Columbia Stages, 2013, dir. Maridee Slater The Online Musical, dir. Jeff Luppino-Esposito Columbia Stages, 2012, dir. Anouk Kemp Livearts Theatre, 2012, dir. Bree Luck Reckless Bard Theatre Co., 2012, dir. Caleb Erikson U.Va Drama, 2011, dir. Richard Warner U.Va Drama, 2011, dir. Bob Chapel U.Va Drama, 2010, dir. Brendon Fox U.Va Drama, 2010, dir. Amanda McRaven U.Va Lab Series, 2010, new work U.Va Lab Series, 2010, new work Empty Chair Theatre, 2012, dir. Elizabeth Nearing Empty Chair Theatre, 2011, dir. Miranda Steege Empty Chair Theatre, 2010, dir. Natasha Solomon Empty Chair Theatre, 2010, dir. Katie Logan Empty Chair Theatre, 2010, dir. Katie Logan Empty Chair Theatre, 2010, dir. Elizabeth Nearing Empty Chair Theatre, 2008, dir. Elizabeth Nearing Empty Chair Theatre, 2008 Shakespeare on the Lawn (U.Va), 2010 Shakespeare on the Lawn (U.Va), 2009 Shakespeare on the Lawn (U.Va), 2009 ASC Young Company, 2008, dir. J. P. Schiedler) ASC Young Company, 2007, dir. Vanessa Morosco ASC Young Company, 2006, dir. Benjamin Curns |
his directing (and his etc.)
Henry VI // 2011
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Richard III
Doctor Faustus Romeo/Juliet Titus Andronicus Macbeth Coriolanus Titus Andronicus Fair Em the Miller's Daughter Henry VI, Part 3 Richard II Twelfth Night, or What You Will Troilus and Cressida Henry VI -- The War of the Roses Opera Through the Ages Persephone Complete Shakespeare (Abridged) The Scarlet Pimpernel: The Musical Twelfth Night Cyrano de Bergerac She Loves Me! |
Director/Adapter
Director/Adapter Dramaturg Director/Adapter Director/Adapter Director/Adapter Director/Adapter Assistant Director Assistant Director Asst. Director/Fight Choreo Assistant Director Asst. Director/Fight Choreo Adapter/Co-Director Co-Director Director Director Fight Choreographer Fight Choreographer Asst. Fight Choreographer Production Stage Manager |
ASC Young Company, 2019
ASC Young Company, 2018 Off-Broadway NYC, dir. Sharone Halevy ASC Young Company, 2017 ASC Young Company, 2016 ASC Young Company, 2015 Reckless Bard Productions, 2014 ASC Young Company, 2014, dir. Tom Dumontier ASC Young Company, 2014, dir. Andrew Blasenak ASC Young Company, 2013, dir. Dan Kennedy ASC Young Company, 2012, dir. Amanda McRaven ASC Young Company, 2011, dir. Bob Jones Shakespeare on the Lawn, 2011 Opera Viva, 2010 U.Va Playwriting Society, 2010 Shakespeare on the Lawn, 2009 Four County Players, 2012, dir. Bob Davis Shakespeare on the Lawn, 2010 Shakespeare on the Lawn, 2010 Spectrum Theatre, 2009 |
his training & his education
MFA Playwriting, Columbia University School of the Arts
BA Theatre, English Literature from the University of Virginia
BA Theatre, English Literature from the University of Virginia
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PLAYWRITING
SCRIPT ANALYSIS / DIRECTING COSTUME DESIGN PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SOUND DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN MOVEMENT ACTING CLOWN STAGE COMBAT SHAKESPEARE |
Lynn Nottage, Charles L. Mee, David Henry Hwang, , Kelly Stuart, Anthony Weigh, Leonard D. Grissom, Neena Beeber (Screenwriting) Jerome Hairston, Zakiyaah Alexander (TV Writing)
Gregory Mosher, Betsy Rudelich Tucker Gweneth West H. Caitlin McLeod Michael Rasbury R. Lee Kennedy Marianne Kubik, Doreen Bechtol (Acrobalance), Thadd McQuade, Bruna Longo, Amanda McRaven (Suzuki/Physical Viewpoints), Alyssa Wilmoth (Laban) Napoleon Tavale, Richard Warner Laura Rikard (Commedia dell’arte), Tyler Moss, John C. Harrell, Sandi Carroll (Devised Theatre), Logic Limited Ltd. Clown Intensive with Sandi Carroll/Brad Fraizer Marianne Kubik (Rapier/Dagger), Benjamin Curns (Knife), Jeremy West, J. P. Scheidler (Unarmed), Master Class with Richard Ryan Basic Pass in Rapier & Dagger, Unarmed Combat by the SAFD, 2011 Prof. John Parker (U.Va); trained with American Shakespeare Center’s Young Company, 2005-2008; Master Class with Andrew Wade (former Head of Voice, Royal Shakespeare Company) |
Daughter Play // 2012
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