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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.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Okay maybe I spoke too soon...

Maybe there is a reason for playwrights to pack it in and quit and stop bothering. Thanks, Josh Conkel, for pointing out something terrible to me.

Why Zach Braff's All New People Is the Defining Play of a Generation

(Freeman dies.)

5 comments:

Unknown said...

It has been mentioned that the author of the piece co-wrote the screenplay of a film in 1999 that starred...Zach Braff!

So, there's that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171340/

Brian said...

So...is the play about Amy Winehouse? Because she seems really fixated on Amy Winehouse.

Also - "Unbeknownst to him, he is about to be descended upon by a gang of misfits even worse off than he is, but yet have all seemed to have found, tentatively but still, something resembling coping mechanisms." That sentence hurts my brain.

Sabina E. said...

I'm not familiar with Zach Braff's works, but "Garden State" is highly overrated.

joshcon80 said...

Also, Rattlestick is producing Jesse Eisenberg's play.

YOU'RE WELCOME!

UNFUN said...

Do you think she should mention she worked and knows "Mr. Braff" So much so, her "gushing' seems more like nepotism?

(IMDB)Getting to Know You - 1999

Starring - Zach Braff
With - Tristine Skyler

Directed by: Lisanne Skyler

Written by: Lisanne AND Tristine Skyler.


Also not to throw fuel to the fire about "CLASS SYSTEMS"

http://www.playbill.com/features/article/85410-Off-Broadway-Shines-a-Light-on-Playwright-Tristine-Skyler

Skyler, a graduate of Manhattan's elite The Chapin School

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chapin_School

Skyler's brother is Mayor Michael Bloomberg press secretary