Matt Minnicino

Matt Minnicino is a queer, jewish playwright + adaptor + teacher + theatre-builder
he lives in manhattan and was born in virginia
he likes to write plays about Now and Then and when they get together and make out

SOME AWARDS + THINGS: David A. Einhorn Memorial Playwriting Prize, Arts & Letters Prize | Helen Hayes nominee | Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award Nominee | Bay Area Finalist | Normal Ave, Premiere Stages and O'Neill Semifinalist

SOME RESIDENCIES + COMMISSIONS: Great Plains Theatre Conference, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Project Y, Fresh Ground Pepper, Pipeline PlayLab, Primary Stages New American Writers Group, Powerhouse @ Vassar, The Gate Theatre (Dublin), Exquisite Corpse, The Joust Theatre, Traumaturgy Productions, Refracted Theatre Company, Barn Arts, Artilliers, Waterwell at...

Matt Minnicino is a queer, jewish playwright + adaptor + teacher + theatre-builder
he lives in manhattan and was born in virginia
he likes to write plays about Now and Then and when they get together and make out

SOME AWARDS + THINGS: David A. Einhorn Memorial Playwriting Prize, Arts & Letters Prize | Helen Hayes nominee | Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award Nominee | Bay Area Finalist | Normal Ave, Premiere Stages and O'Neill Semifinalist

SOME RESIDENCIES + COMMISSIONS: Great Plains Theatre Conference, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Project Y, Fresh Ground Pepper, Pipeline PlayLab, Primary Stages New American Writers Group, Powerhouse @ Vassar, The Gate Theatre (Dublin), Exquisite Corpse, The Joust Theatre, Traumaturgy Productions, Refracted Theatre Company, Barn Arts, Artilliers, Waterwell at PPAS, The Box Collective, Wandering Bark, Atlantic Theatre School, Rule of 7x7, Serials Writers Room @ The Flea, monologues for Faultline, Skeleton Rep, The Living Calendar, 24 Hour Viral Monologues, others

published by: The Dionysian, The Dramatist, HowlRound | MFA: Columbia
films with: Little Crush Films, Wild Obscura, Maid & Prince, S&M Prods, Cute Lil Risk, Bicephaly Pictures
teacher/lecturer at: Barnard College, Mary Baldwin University, The Acting Gym, American Shakespeare Center, Barn Arts | elementary, middle, and high schoolers in NYC

((he has less hair than his picture implies, but he likes this one!))

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Scripts

wyrd

by Matt Minnicino

12
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
fantasy,
horror,
romantic comedy

Three ageless, timeless, deathless sisters in a basement in Bushwick
One of them falls in love
Another falls in hate
The third tries to keep the other two from falling

(a witch play for hard times)

Three ageless, timeless, deathless sisters in a basement in Bushwick
One of them falls in love
Another falls in hate
The third tries to keep the other two from falling

(a witch play for hard times)

Some Pictures of the Floating World

by Matt Minnicino

5
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

Shiloh is happy!
Someday she and her friends in the Word of Joy
will be called to the Floating World
Then, a stranger arrives

(a play about cults, and truth)

Shiloh is happy!
Someday she and her friends in the Word of Joy
will be called to the Floating World
Then, a stranger arrives

(a play about cults, and truth)

birdland (a tragedy)

by Matt Minnicino

Cast Size
6—7
Genre
drama,
fable/folktale,
period,
tragedy,
verse

in the smoke of a music hall
the three best-beloved songbirds in all of Italy take their final bow
two of them fettered to fine-feathered husbands
and the third flung back to their father's nest in a castle far away

(a jacobean tragedy about why we tell each other such sad stories, with music)

in the smoke of a music hall
the three best-beloved songbirds in all of Italy take their final bow
two of them fettered to fine-feathered husbands
and the third flung back to their father's nest in a castle far away

(a jacobean tragedy about why we tell each other such sad stories, with music)

ARTAUD ARTAUD

by Matt Minnicino

Cast Size
6—30
Genre
biography,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
pantomime,
period,
political,
satire,
tragedy

Antonin Artaud, Theatrical Sensation
finds himself locked in an insane asylum
His Double is there too

(a cruel not-masterpiece about how making theatre can kill you)

Antonin Artaud, Theatrical Sensation
finds himself locked in an insane asylum
His Double is there too

(a cruel not-masterpiece about how making theatre can kill you)

annA

by Matt Minnicino

1
Cast Size
7
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
melodrama,
period,
romantic comedy,
tragedy,
translation,
verse

all happy families are alike
each unhappy family is
wait
no

(a queer retelling of tolstoy's classic about falling in the wrong kind of love
and the world telling a story about it)

all happy families are alike
each unhappy family is
wait
no

(a queer retelling of tolstoy's classic about falling in the wrong kind of love
and the world telling a story about it)

Children of the Sun

by Matt Minnicino

1
Cast Size
9
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
drama,
satire,
tragedy

In Moscow, the people are rioting. Soldiers fire into the crowd.
In the village, protestors march against the injustice of the Tsar
and there's something in the water making everyone sick
But Yelena and Pavel Protasov are going to stop all that, with science, art, and hope
Probably

(adapted a lot from the 1905 play by Maxim Gorky)

In Moscow, the people are rioting. Soldiers fire into the crowd.
In the village, protestors march against the injustice of the Tsar
and there's something in the water making everyone sick
But Yelena and Pavel Protasov are going to stop all that, with science, art, and hope
Probably

(adapted a lot from the 1905 play by Maxim Gorky)

Antigone / we are the rebels asking for the storm

by Matt Minnicino

4
Cast Size
11—20
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
political,
tragedy,
translation,
verse

A body rots in the sun.
A girl takes a stand against the new regime.
What is she fighting for?
How far can she go?

(stolen and exploded from Sophocles, trans. Kenneth Cavander)

A body rots in the sun.
A girl takes a stand against the new regime.
What is she fighting for?
How far can she go?

(stolen and exploded from Sophocles, trans. Kenneth Cavander)

A Misanthrope

by Matt Minnicino

2
Cast Size
5—10
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
farce,
translation,
verse

less a translation than a distillation
of Moliere's classic tale of the stagnation
of a society weighed down by flattery
and the one man who best know what's the matter, he
whose quips equip him more than all the rest
to diss dishonor: venom-tongued Alceste.
A play precocious, prating, and perverse--
and 95% in rhyming verse.

less a translation than a distillation
of Moliere's classic tale of the stagnation
of a society weighed down by flattery
and the one man who best know what's the matter, he
whose quips equip him more than all the rest
to diss dishonor: venom-tongued Alceste.
A play precocious, prating, and perverse--
and 95% in rhyming verse.

three sisters

by Matt Minnicino

1
Cast Size
10
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy,
tragedy

Once upon a time three sisters lived with their brother in a little house
Will they ever get to Moscow?
Will we still be talking about them a hundred years later? Will they find love?
No, yes, and maybe

(a kinda mostly the same but dumber version of that chekhov play you definitely know)

Once upon a time three sisters lived with their brother in a little house
Will they ever get to Moscow?
Will we still be talking about them a hundred years later? Will they find love?
No, yes, and maybe

(a kinda mostly the same but dumber version of that chekhov play you definitely know)

malefactions

by Matt Minnicino

3
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
mystery/thriller,
political,
tragedy

four women on fire
come together for an act of rebellion
against the world that forgot them

four women on fire
come together for an act of rebellion
against the world that forgot them