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Monica Cross

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  • Matthew Weaver Finds Me by Jennifer O'Grady
    14 Aug. 2020
    “ What a whimsical play about friendship, birthdays, and a unicorn! MATTHEW WEAVER FINDS ME has two playwrights meet inside a play that one is writing for the other. Within this play, Jennifer O'Grady creates a space that is perfect celebration for Matthew Weaver. Another great Matthew Weaver play! Bravo! ”
  • Welcome to the Matthew Weaver Playwriting Museum (a monologue) by Matthew Weaver
    12 Aug. 2020
    “ WELCOME TO THE MATTHEW WEAVER PLAYWRITING MUSEUM has a woman (18-30) playing an older gentleman who is performing a museum introduction playing Matthew Weaver himself. If that isn't a beautiful set up, I don't know what is. Matthew Weaver is the master of Self-referential work! And play toys with that, plays with expectations and conventions, and gives us a little bit better glimpse into the man that is Matthew Weaver. Well Done! ”
  • Cheryl Bear is Reading All of My Plays on the New Play Exchange ( a monologue) by Matthew Weaver
    12 Aug. 2020
    “ CHERYL BEAR IS READING ALL OF MY PLAYS ON THE NEW PLAY EXCHANGE is about economy of language. Matthew Weaver exactly what we need without anything extra in this metatheatrical monologue.

    I mean sure, aren't we all waiting for Cheryl Bear to discover us and read our plays? Isn't that the new benchmark by which a playwright has 'arrived' at the New Play Exchange? (I'm joking... or am I?)

    This play is a celebration of that community, that awareness. It's a celebration of Matthew Weaver, and a toast (quite literally) to the amazing feat of reading Cheryl Bear has undertaken. ”
  • Into Me (A Love Story) by DC Cathro
    11 Aug. 2020
    “ INTO ME (A LOVE STORY) is a fantastical love story (as the title suggests), full of passion and longing. This is my first foray into DC Cathro's work, and I look forward to many more. Beautiful, and immaculately well done! ”
  • A Reputation (A Short Monologue About Matthew Weaver, Whom I Have Never Met and Hopefully Takes No Issue With the Existence of the Following Existential Musings) by Daniel Prillaman
    11 Aug. 2020
    “ Would you write a play about about a person you don't know? Whose work you've never read? Daniel Prillaman did! And it is a testament to the reputation that Matthew Weaver has on NPX and in the playwriting community at large. A REPUTATION explores what it means to write and know other writers and engage with that discourse. Another great Matthew Weaver play! Well done, Daniel Prillaman! Congrats, Matthew Weaver! ”
  • Matthew Weaver, Marry Me by Philip Middleton Williams
    11 Aug. 2020
    “ MATTHEW WEAVER, MARRY ME is a delightful Metadrama about connection and mutual admiration. Philip Middleton Williams makes a compelling argument for Matthew Weaver to marry him at leave... at least on paper. This is witty and charming. Another delightful Matthew Weaver play! ”
  • A Play (Not Only) About Matthew Weaver by Larry Rinkel
    11 Aug. 2020
    “ A PLAY (NOT ONLY) ABOUT MATTHEW WEAVER is a testament to our playwriting community and to NPX. Larry Rinkel makes a delightful case for playwrights to write celebratory plays about one another regularly, even while presenting a curmudgeonly argument for the opposite. Another delightful Matthew Weaver (et al) play! ”
  • The Known Universe (Part Three of The Second World Trilogy) by Scott Sickles
    10 Aug. 2020
    “ I sobbed, like big, caught-in-your-check sobs, throughout THE KNOWN UNIVERSE. Scott Sickles pulls at all the heart strings in this play. This is an excellent stand alone piece, and a show stopping conclusion to THE SECOND WORLD TRILOGY. We get to live a lifetime with Teddy and Anzor these three plays through their struggle, heartache, and loss.

    This is a beautiful play that I would love to see staged. Bravo, Scott! HIGHLY RECOMMENED! Like stop whever you are doing and read all three plays! ”
  • Pangea (Part Two of The Second World Trilogy) by Scott Sickles
    10 Aug. 2020
    “ PANGEA is a great stand alone play, and an excellent sequel to MARIANAS TRENCH. Scott Sickles peers into a world where polar icecaps are melting, two old friends become lovers. This is a play with urgency and heart ache, as our two main character reunite after 26 years of separation only to realize that their jobs of trying to save humanity and all life on Earth might keep them apart.

    I was riveted throughout the whole story, as I cheer these too lovely characters on, hoping that they find their way back to each other! BRAVO! Highly recommended! ”
  • I Have Never Met Matthew Weaver But Here's A Play About Him Anyway - Monologue by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
    10 Aug. 2020
    “ I HAVE NEVER MET MATTHEW WEAVER BUT HERE'S A PLAY ABOUT HIM ANYWAY is a wonderful tribute to the chance meetings that happen everyday as we go through our live and to the connections made online instantly bringing together people who are may be separated physically by cities, states, and countries. Elisabeth Giffin Speckman perfectly encapsulates what it means have never met Matthew Weaver, but still have been effected by his work. Here is to Matthew Weaver, and Here is to Elisabeth Speckman! ”

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