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. |
loud rumour speaks | PRESS
Press for A Misanthrope
Whisk & Quill | Jordan Wright
DC Theatre Scene | Jeffrey Walker
MD Theatre Guide | Mary Ann Johnson
DC Metro Theatre Arts | Bob Ashby
BroadwayWorld | Andrew White
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
Birdland (a tragedy) - Smart Reviews (article) | Jack Smart
The Naming of Things - Columbia Spectator (article) | Zoe Miller
Press for Marvellous
Fringe Reviews (article) | William Glenn
NYTheaterNow.com (article) | Judith Jarosz
Press for Troy is Burning
The Spark, WMRA Public Radio (radio interview) | Martha Woodroof
UVA Drama Department Newsletter (article) "Talking to the Playwright" | Joyce Carman
The C-Ville (article)
"UVA Drama stages a post-modern epic written by an undergraduate" | Spencer Peterson
UVA Today (article and radio interview)
"UVA Drama Student Pens Play About the Fall of Troy" | Jane Ford
The Cavalier Daily (article) "Troy is Burning sets stage on fire" | Conor Sheehy
The Declaration Online (article) "A Little Bit Dramatic" | Jeff Luppino-Esposito
Whisk & Quill | Jordan Wright
DC Theatre Scene | Jeffrey Walker
MD Theatre Guide | Mary Ann Johnson
DC Metro Theatre Arts | Bob Ashby
BroadwayWorld | Andrew White
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
Birdland (a tragedy) - Smart Reviews (article) | Jack Smart
The Naming of Things - Columbia Spectator (article) | Zoe Miller
Press for Marvellous
Fringe Reviews (article) | William Glenn
NYTheaterNow.com (article) | Judith Jarosz
Press for Troy is Burning
The Spark, WMRA Public Radio (radio interview) | Martha Woodroof
UVA Drama Department Newsletter (article) "Talking to the Playwright" | Joyce Carman
The C-Ville (article)
"UVA Drama stages a post-modern epic written by an undergraduate" | Spencer Peterson
UVA Today (article and radio interview)
"UVA Drama Student Pens Play About the Fall of Troy" | Jane Ford
The Cavalier Daily (article) "Troy is Burning sets stage on fire" | Conor Sheehy
The Declaration Online (article) "A Little Bit Dramatic" | Jeff Luppino-Esposito
