Matthew Freeman is a playwright, director, actor and freelance writer. His plays have been seen on stages throughout New York City at the Access Theater; 4th Street Theater; The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; HERE Arts Center; The Metropolitan Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Source, The New Ohio and at the Incubator Arts Project at St. Mark’s Church. His work has been called “as savage as any slasher film” by the New York Times. He was named one of nytheatre.com’s "People of the Year" in 2004.
His plays include Bluebeard, When is a Clock, The Listeners, Why We Left Brooklyn (Semi-Finalist O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2013), That Which Isn't, The Starving Dress, The Most Wonderful Love, Glee Club, The Great Escape, The Death of King Arthur, The Americans, Confess Your Bubble and Brandywine Distillery Fire. His plays and monologues have been published by Samuel French, Applause, Smith & Kraus, the New York Theatre Experience and Playscripts, Inc.
As a director, Freeman has staged The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children by Matthew Trumbull at the NY International Fringe Festival 2012 (Encore Series; Award, Overall Excellence in Solo Performance) and the Minnesota Fringe Festival 2013. He has previously directed his own adaptation of the mystery plays, Genesis, with Handcart Ensemble and his play in the great expanse of space there is nothing to see but More, More, More. As an actor, he appeared in various Shakespeare productions with Gorilla Repertory Theater and Frog & Peach Theater, and his own An Interview with the Author at the Brick Theater’s “Pretentious Festival.”
As a freelance writer, Freeman’s articles and reviews have been found in various magazines and websites, including Maxim, Complex, Premiere and Samuel French’s Breaking Character. He has also served as the Assistant Producer/Senior Writer for the official webcast for New Year’s Eve live from Times Square from 2009-2011. He was the script writer for the New York Innovative Theater Awards in 2009 and 2010. Additionally, he has hosted the “New Books in Theater” podcast, and has hosted various “Playwrights in Conversation” nytheatrecasts on nytheatre.com.
Freeman is a graduate of Emerson College. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, a MacDowell Fellow, and a proud resident playwright at New Dramatists.
He lives with Brooklyn, NY with his wife, Pam.
