Mathilde Dratwa

Mathilde Dratwa

MATHILDE DRATWA's play Milk and Gall premiered at Theatre503 in London in 2021, dir. Lisa Spirling (Offies finalist: Most Promising New Playwright). Her other writing includes A Play about David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein, and Dirty Laundry, an Audible commission. Her work has been developed and presented by the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Rattlestick, LAByrinth Theater Company, the...
MATHILDE DRATWA's play Milk and Gall premiered at Theatre503 in London in 2021, dir. Lisa Spirling (Offies finalist: Most Promising New Playwright). Her other writing includes A Play about David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein, and Dirty Laundry, an Audible commission. Her work has been developed and presented by the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Rattlestick, LAByrinth Theater Company, the Great Plains Theater Conference, the Playwrights' Center, and in London at Theatre503 and the Young Vic. Mathilde is a 2021-2024 Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center, a member of Dorset Theater Festival's Women Artists Writing Group and a member of the Parent/Caregiver Playwrights Group sponsored by Project Y and New Georges. Recently, she was a member of the Orchard Project's Greenhouse, a Dramatist Guild Foundation Playwriting Fellow and a member of New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Program. She was also a co-leader of the FilmShop collective. Mathilde co-founded Moms-in-Film, which, among other things, provided free childcare to filmmaker-parents at SXSW and Sundance. She's a graduate of Cambridge University and Drama Centre London and a two-time Pulitzer Center grant recipient.

Plays

  • Dirty Laundry by Mathilde Dratwa
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: death, loss + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: death, loss, family, infidelity, chorus, storytelling
    Following the unexpected loss of her mother and simultaneous discovery of her father’s infidelity, an adult daughter juggles grief and anger. Her dad attempts to put into words his complicated feelings about love, loss, and lust. Meanwhile, the “other woman” ponders: What is an affair when it's no longer an affair? In Dirty Laundry, Mathilde Dratwa explores the absurdity and messiness of life and death.
  • A Play about David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein by Mathilde Dratwa
    Recommendations: 29
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    Cast: 
    4–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: feminism, storytelling + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, parody/spoof, satire
    Keyword: feminism, storytelling, monologue, sexism, Race, writing
    It's basically what it sounds like.
  • Milk and Gall by Mathilde Dratwa
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, political
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    Keyword: feminism, motherhood + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, political
    Keyword: feminism, motherhood, 2016 presidential election, American politics
    It’s Election Night 2016, Vera becomes a new mother, and...it’s about to be one f*cked up year.

Recommended by Mathilde Dratwa

  • Funny, Like HAHA. (or, A Play About A Rape Joke) by Katherine Gwynn
    14 Oct. 2019
    “ This play takes a sharp knife to the sexism and misogyny of the comedy world in the aftermath of the Louis CK scandal. It had me at the character descriptions (Read them now. They're brilliant. And then you won't be able to stop reading.)

    There's a heartbreaking female friendship at the heart of the play. As the title suggests, the piece sits uncomfortably on the line between funny and dead serious.

    It's an intersectional play which explores race, feminism, and queerness. And it's delightfully theatrical.



    ”
  • STAND by Caridad Svich
    2 May. 2019
    “ A highly theatrical play-poem of fury and healing. A play that examines the individual burden of assault while reminding us of the importance of community in dealing with trauma - a narrative that is so often missing. A brave play which feels both ancient and of this very precise moment. ”
  • Rock Egg Spoon by Noah Diaz
    1 May. 2019
    “ THIS PLAY. The language is so inventive that I started listing the phrases that made me laugh or gasp, and then the list got so long I realized I would never get to the end of the play... And once I stopped, I realized that the undercurrents of the play are heartbreaking. The play "quietly hurt my ears" with the themes of "sadness and displacement." It is a smart subversion of the myths that "stay in suitcases so they can be carried around and never unpacked." Noah questions how big our footprints really are with a voice that will echo. ”
  • The Juniors by Noah Diaz
    1 May. 2019
    “ Such a (dark, dark, dark) delight! This play does what so few do: takes young people seriously, without denying them any agency, and without obscuring their defects. A pleasure to read. Someone produce this play now - and don't shy away from the gore, please and thank you. ”