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Matthew Freeman is a Brooklyn based playwright with a BFA from Emerson College. His plays include THE DEATH OF KING ARTHUR, REASONS FOR MOVING, THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE AMERICANS, THE WHITE SWALLOW, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR, THE MOST WONDERFUL LOVE, WHEN IS A CLOCK, GLEE CLUB, THAT OLD SOFT SHOE and BRANDYWINE DISTILLERY FIRE. He served as Assistant Producer and Senior Writer for the live webcast from Times Square on New Year's Eve 2010-2012. As a freelance writer, he has contributed to Gamespy, Premiere, Complex Magazine, Maxim Online, and MTV Magazine. His plays have been published by Playscripts, Inc., New York Theatre Experience, and Samuel French.

Friday, September 08, 2006

Drama Guild backs off Weiss

In this letter to the editor, President of the Drama Guild John Weidman acknowledges that he was (hey, I was too) in error for going after Hedy Weiss, a Chicago Theater Critic.

(For some reason, this brings me to think of the whipping boy status that Charles Isherwood has acheived on the theatrical blogosphere.)

1 comment:

Adam Szymkowicz said...

I don't think too many people are aware of isherwood's status as the whipping boy and I wonder if he is even aware of it. And to be fair, the scope of his whipping hasn't been too intense and when it was, it was because he offhandedly said that writers should not write new worlds. I'm surprised he didn't get more of a whipping for that. And the dude is still the main critic for the most powerful paper in theatre. Don't cry for Çharles Isherwood.