Matthew Freeman
Matthew Freeman is a current resident playwright at New Dramatists and a MacDowell Colony Fellow.
His plays have been seen on stages throughout New York City by way of the Access Theater; 4th Street Theater; The Brick Theater; HERE Arts Center; 80WSE Gallery; House of Yes; Dixon Place and at the Incubator Arts Project at St. Mark’s Church.
His plays include The Language,...
Matthew Freeman is a current resident playwright at New Dramatists and a MacDowell Colony Fellow.
His plays have been seen on stages throughout New York City by way of the Access Theater; 4th Street Theater; The Brick Theater; HERE Arts Center; 80WSE Gallery; House of Yes; Dixon Place and at the Incubator Arts Project at St. Mark’s Church.
His plays include The Language, Bluebeard, When is a Clock, Traveling to Montpelier, The Listeners (Nominee: Best Performance Art Production - New York Innovative Theatre Awards 2015), Why We Left Brooklyn, That Which Isn't, The Starving Dress, The Most Wonderful Love, Glee Club, The Great Escape, The Death of King Arthur, The Americans, That Old Soft Shoe, Confess Your Bubble and Brandywine Distillery Fire. His plays and monologues have been published by Samuel French, Applause, Smith & Kraus, the New York Theatre Experience and Playscripts, Inc.
As a director, Freeman has staged The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children by Matthew Trumbull at the NY International Fringe Festival 2012 (Encore Series; Award, Overall Excellence in Solo Performance) and the Minnesota Fringe Festival 2013. He has directed his own adaptation of the mystery plays, Genesis, with Handcart Ensemble and The Hollow, an evening of short plays.
Freeman is a graduate of Emerson College.