autobiographical
Matt's full name is Matthew Isaac Minnicino but is that really important? Matt's plays are about Now and Then, and When They Get Together and Make Out He has won some awards and things, because there are a lot of awards in the world. Here are some: The 2016 Arts & Letters Prize, the Clay E. Delauney Playwriting Prize, nominee/finalist for Primary Stages' Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award, semifinalist for the 2017 O'Neill New Play Conference, residencies with The Barn Arts Collective, Great Plains Theatre Conference, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Sugarglass Theatre at Trinity College-Dublin, Exquisite Corpse, and membership in Everyday Inferno's 2016-17 Writer/Director Lab, Joust Theatre's Writers Group, The Flea Theatre's Serials Writers Room and Pipeline Theatre's 2017-18 PlayLab, and commissions from East 3rd Productions, Wandering Bark, Artilliers, Traumaturgy Productions, Combative Theatre, Bicephaly Pictures, and many others His work has been done at some neat places. Here are some: New York, LA, DC,, Chicago, Virginia, Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia, Maine, Nebraska, Connecticut, Louisiana, Arizona, and Ireland. In NYC: The Tank, The Cell, The Flea, The Access, The Signature, HERE Arts, IRT, The Bushwick Starr, Loft 227, Dixon Place, Alchemical Theater, The Gibson Showroom, TheaterLab, an art gallery basement in Chinatown, a mansion on Governor's Island, an old fire station on the Lower East Side, an abandoned hospital in Williamsburg, and apartments in all five boroughs He likes to adapt things, and has adapted a lot of things, including Chekhov, Homer, Strindberg, Ibsen, Rilke, Gorky, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Kleist, Wilder, the Old Testament, and more Matt can fit into a television set (if it has nothing in it) Matt has an MFA, but still doesn't know what to do with it (he uses it as a Matt has taught 6 year olds how to build with legos, 16 year olds how to perform Shakespeare, 21 year olds how to write plays, and 56 year olds how to speak English As you read this, Matt is doing something. We invite you to use your imagination to decode this riddle. Keep it clean. |
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Press for Antigone (We Are The Rebels Asking For The Storm)
StageRaw (Recommended) | Gray Palmer
"Patriarchy x 3" | People's World | Eric A. Gordon
All About The Stage | Mary E. Montoro
Press for Hedda (Gabler)
"The Glorious Fall of Hedda Gabler" | Theater in the Now | Michael Block
"Hedda Hedda Hey!" | Culture Catch | Leah Richards
"Margin Notes: Hedda Gabler" | A Work Unfinishing | Zelda Knapp
Malefactions - Theatre is Easy (article)
Antonia Lassar | February 2016
Birdland (a tragedy) - Smart Reviews (article)
Jack Smart | March 2014
Marvellous - Fringe Reviews (article)
William Glenn | August 2014
Marvellous - NYTheaterNow.com (article)
Judith Jarosz | August 2014
The Naming of Things - Columbia Spectator (article)
"Latenite Delivers with laughs, irreverence" (Zoe Miller) | December 2012
Troy is Burning - The Spark, WMRA Public Radio (radio interview)
Martha Woodroof | December 2, 2011
Troy is Burning - UVA Drama Department Newsletter (article)
"Talking to the Playwright" (Joyce Carman) | Winter, 2007, UVA Drama News
Troy is Burning - The C-Ville (article)
"UVA Drama stages a post-modern epic written by an undergraduate" (Spencer Peterson)
Issue #23.48, December, 2011
Troy is Burning - UVA Today (article and radio interview)
"UVA Drama Student Pens Play About the Fall of Troy" (Jane Ford) November 22, 2012
Troy is Burning - The Cavalier Daily (article)
"'Troy is Burning' sets stage on fire" (Conor Sheehy) | November 17, 2011
Troy is Burning - The Declaration Online (article)
"A Little Bit Dramatic" (Jeff Luppino-Esposito) | (Volume 38, Issue 7)
March 18, 2010