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Matt Barbot

MATT BARBOT

  
Nationality:    USA
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Matt Barbot is a writer and actor from Brooklyn, NY who received dual BAs in Theater and Creative writing from Franklin & Marshall College. He is the author of End Times, Jorge Luis Borges and the Aleph of Calle Garay, and Boldly Go; his plays have been performed in New York, Miami, LA and Pennsylvania. His play El Coqui´ Especta´cular and the Bottle of Doom has been workshopped as part of IATI Theater's Cimientos Play Development Program, and his play Infallibility was produced as part of the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Recently, Matt wrote the Pepsi branded digital short The Perfect Play, starring Victor Cruz of the New York Giants. He is currently a member of The Flea Theater's resident acting company, The Bats, with whom he performed in Jeffrey M. Jones' A Letter from Omdurman, as well as the Drama Desk Award nominated and New York Times Critics' pick These Seven Sicknesses. He is also a contributing writer to and former City Editor of online Latino culture and events guide Remezcla.

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         Boldly Go         El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom         Faith         Infallibility         List of Some Shit I've Killed, A         Mostly True Story About F Scott Fitzgerald's Penis         O, Lttle Town         Princess Clara of Loisaida         Saints Go Marching         Somewhere A Place         Stoo's Famous Martian American Gumbo         Tragedy of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash or The Entire Anglo-Zanzibar War in Real Time         Venetians, The
Boldly Go

Synopsis:
The medic and the linguist have a superstation about away teams

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1st Produced:
The Brick, New York     Oct 21 2011

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://twitter.com/barbotrobot

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El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom

Synopsis:
Comic book artist Alex is told that his creation El Coqui Espectacular is too Puerto Rican. Meanwhile his brother Joe is fired from a project for not being Puerto Rican enough

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1st Produced:
Two River Theatre, Red Bank, New Jersey     Jan 2018

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Genre:
Comedy

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Faith

Synopsis:
Abraham's son will not speak to him and it is all God's fault

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Genre:
Ten minute monologue

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Infallibility

Synopsis:
When summoned to perform for the Pope in Rome, bad actor and priest-in-training Carlo seems blessed. But, trapped between an imagined saint and the very real trial of a dead former Pope, Carlo finds himself playing a role in one of the most bizarre spectacles in history: Stephen VI's infamous Cadaver Synod!
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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First aVenue, New York, NY 10009     03 Mar 2011

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   

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Genre:
1 act 90 min

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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List of Some Shit I've Killed, A

List of Some Shit I've Killed, A
Heracles bow and the men it killed

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1st Published:
Contained in Red Bull Shorts volume Three" published by Steele Spring Stage Rights 2017   

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mostly True Story About F Scott Fitzgerald's Penis

Synopsis:
F Scott Fitzgerald is in a panic and asks his friend Ernest Hemmingway what to do. It is all a matter of size

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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O, Lttle Town

Synopsis:
Joe's wife is about to give birth. All the hotels and motels are fully booked. The concierge suggests they have her barn. This sort of thing would never happen in Bethlehem

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Princess Clara of Loisaida

Synopsis:
Jose is left in charge of his younger sister. She only seems to be interested in video games. Jose thinks about how his parents found her when she was a baby wrapped in a blanket by the fairy castle in Central Park. He thinks that maybe she is a fairy princess

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1st Produced:
Shelter Theatre, New York     2018

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Genre:
Drama

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Saints Go Marching

Synopsis:
Jo is determined to get the burial flag from her grandfather's funeral

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Somewhere A Place

Synopsis:
Maria wants to reconcile with a friend that she lost some years ago. She tries to remember a song that she used to sing to him but cannot

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Studio, New York     12 Aug 2018

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Genre:
Ten minute monologue

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Stoo's Famous Martian American Gumbo

Synopsis:
Stoo's Martian family now live on Earth. Stoo's favourite food does not grow on this planet so he sets out to recreate it from the Earth's most delicious foodstuffs

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1st Produced:
Peppercorn Theatre, New York     2019

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Tragedy of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash or The Entire Anglo-Zanzibar War in Real Time

Synopsis:
1896. The British fought a war for the control of Zanzibar - it lasted 38 minutes. A group of actors meet to recreate it

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1st Produced:
Dixon Place, New York    

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Genre:
One act

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Venetians, The

Synopsis:
Othello wants to marry Desdemona but does not have enough money. So he goes to Shylock to borrow some ducats

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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