Matt Minnicino

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...
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!))

Plays

  • wyrd by Matt Minnicino
    Recommendations: 12
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 2 more
    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)
  • Some Pictures of the Floating World by Matt Minnicino
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Cults, storytelling + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Cults, storytelling, metatheatrical
    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: 
    6–7
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale + 3 more
    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)
  • ARTAUD ARTAUD by Matt Minnicino
    Cast: 
    6–30
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 8 more
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    Keyword: Artaud, experimental theatre + 4 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, pantomime, period, political, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: Artaud, experimental theatre, France, absurdism, Theatre of Cruelty, insanity
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 9 more
    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)
  • Children of the Sun by Matt Minnicino
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Russia, revolution + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: Russia, revolution, activism, genetics, science, mental illness, epidemic, communism
    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
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    11–20
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 4 more
    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 Misanthrope by Matt Minnicino
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5–10
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 3 more
    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.
  • three sisters by Matt Minnicino
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: Chekhov, adaptation + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, drama, romantic comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: Chekhov, adaptation, Sisters, Russia
    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
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 2 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    four women on fire
    come together for an act of rebellion
    against the world that forgot them