Matt Greene

Set in a rural New England town, Grady Pratt seeks to navigate the meaning in his life--or whether to abandon the notion that one even exists. With his dysfunctional family in shambles, he must try one last time to guide his children toward a life he failed to give them.

Jack Harper is a worn out and broken-down detective solving petty crimes in Anchorage, Alaska. His wife and child have abandoned him and moved across the country to begin a new life, sending him into an existential crisis fueled by liquor.

A young woman has died from an apparent wolf-attack in a remote hunting camp, ironically named Sunshine, Alaska, and Harper is sent to handle the paperwork and bring the body back. When he arrives, he quickly learns that the girl’s death was not due to wolves, but a murder. His first move is to reach for a drink to keep the demons at bay, but it is then too that he learns that the camp is dry—no alcohol whatsoever. Now Harper must race the clock and discover who the killer is before he succumbs to his sickness.

With only one hour of daylight and the temperatures barely reaching 20 below, Harper must navigate this foreign world with only one ally—the ghost of the murdered girl.

Character List
Jack Harper: 40, detective with a bad drinking problem
CR Yates: 55, rugged, hospitable, owner of the hunting camp
Charlie Freid: 45, business man
Lexi Freid: 14, his daughter, shy
Nathan Lazzie: 45, bitter, fierce, father of murdered girl. Inupiaq
Bertone: 50, loner, professional hunting guide
Strange Girl: 17, Inupiaq, mysterious

Marcus “The Reaper” Dillon is a Mixed Martial Arts fighter who has been sidelined with a devastating injury and now forced to clean the gym he once ruled. He is holding onto a pipe dream of saving enough money to pay for a risky surgery to repair the subdural hematoma that could easily rupture and kill him with one more blow. His mentor, the gym owner, Renzo, is pushing Marcus into a new career of coaching to protect him from himself and his unrealistic ambitions of fighting again. When Renzo brings in a street kid with a criminal past, Marcus is forced to coach him out of a sense of duty to his mentor, but he does so begrudgingly. When local drug dealer, Frankie, offers a lucrative business proposition to Marcus, he sees it as his only way back into the cage.

For awhile Marcus is able to balance his commitments until one night the drugs go missing. Now Frankie is on a rampage to secure Marcus’s talents all for himself, concerned that his split-focus is compromising his business. When Marcus won’t bow to Frankie’s demands, Frankie goes for Marcus’s weak spot, Diego. Now with Diego’s life threatened and the drugs missing, Marcus is boxed into a corner with only one way out—to fight.

Written with Craig Handel.

With their homeland in conflict, five young women, seeking a sense of identity and purpose, answer the call of duty and travel to “The East”. Their story is one of youthful hope and optimism confronting the harsh realities of war.

1941 Ukraine. A "comfort house" for members of Hitler's SS Einsatzgruppen "Killing Squads" to rest and relax with young women whose job is to take their mind off the war for a couple days. An event occurs which spins the girls in all directions as they confront the reality of their complicity.

A truly unique and complex play that looks at the holocaust through the eyes of perpetrators but with a humanized take. Only through empathy for our enemies will we be able to work towards a solution. It neither condones nor excuses any act of violence, but rather challenges audiences to ask difficult questions of themselves as they care deeply for the characters.

Characters:
Jimmy: 55+, tough-as-nails.
Sped-Boy: 25, low IQ but tries hard.
Billy: 30, cool and calculating.

Jimmy and Sped-Boy have met up at the rendezvous spot after a jewelry heist. Billy, the third member of the team is missing. As Sped-Boy recounts the steps he and Billy took earlier, Jimmy is convinced that Billy is in custody and the cops are on their way to get him. Sped-Boy wants his video game that Jimmy took from him and locked in a safe. As the panic sets in, Jimmy gets violent bringing about a deadly ending.

Official selection - Boston Theatre Marathon 2015
KCACTF Region 1 Finalist

*KCACTF Region 1 Finalist

Two men, Scotty and Jack, meet on a balcony of a ski lodge. Jack is nursing an injury with whiskey as Scotty celebrates the conquest of another female with a cigarette. The girl in question is not just “anybody”, but Jack’s underage daughter. The two men spar over what is right and what is evil, what is intended and what is perceived. We learn there is more to the story after one man takes matters into his own hands. A twisted tale of male pride and insecurity, Black Diamond examines how far man will go to ensure his own comfort and survival.

Henry, 40
Paul, mid-40's,

Henry and Paul are sitting together on a turbulent flight. Paul, sweats profusely and snaps a rubber band around his wrist…he is in full panic-mode. Henry sits calmly reading from a thick book. When Paul can’t take it anymore he asks Henry to pray with him. Problem is, Henry is an atheist. The two men spar over the existence of God and what their meaning in life is. When the flight takes an unexpected turn, the two are forced to consider their “certainties” and to accept what truly matters.