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Matthew-Lee Erlbach

MATTHEW-LEE ERLBACH

  (1985 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Matthew-Lee Erlbach is an actor and writer from Chicago. Most recent playwright credits include the Off-Bway world-premiere of HANDBOOK FOR AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY (Tony Speciale, dir); EAGER TO LOSE, A BURLESQUE FARCE IN RHYMING VERSE, extended Off-Bway at Ars Nova, 2013 (Wes Grantom/Portia Krieger, dirs); KEVIN LAMB, reading at Vineyard Theater; THE DOPPELGANGER; and KING GEORGE III. His work has been developed at Williamstown, The Vineyard MCC, Primary Stages, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Woodshed Collective, The Lark, Nuyorican, Ohio Theatre, Tisch/NYU Grad, Ars Nova, and the GYM at Judson, among others. He is a Puffin Grant recipient, a three-time Finalist for Juilliard's Lila Acheson Fellowship, a Finalist for the O'Neill, and twice a Semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award. He is a member of Ars Nova's 2014/2015 Play Group. He has also written for Nickelodeon, MTV, WWE, and Huffington Post.

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         Bla/ckbird         Campaign To Save America And Rock the Shit Out Of This Bitch         Chippewa         Doppelganger         Eager To Lose         Handbook For An American Revolutionary         In A City Like This         Irma         Kevin Lamb         King George III, Part One: Join Or Die         King George III, Part Two: Columbia Rising         Love, Atomic         Mine         Neighbor In The Area, A         Nobody         Pigeons, Sharks, And Vixens         Representation         Republik         Seward, Kansas         Sex Of the Baby         Words

Bla/ckbird

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Campaign To Save America And Rock the Shit Out Of This Bitch

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Matt is 28 and running for Congress

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Written by Matthew-Lee Erlbach and Matt Citron

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Chippewa

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Doppelganger

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A kindergarten teacher looks like a copper magnate. The magnate has an heart attack and the teacher forced to take his place

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Eager To Lose

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Welcome to the legendary Tim Tam Room, where the music sizzles, champagne flows, and dancing beauties tempt and tease. When Tansy, the club's crown jewel, announces her imminent departure, the club's MC is left holding his heart in his hands. Exuberant hijinks and salacious striptease collide as this night of classic burlesque unspools into a sequin-drenched, raucous farce.

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Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    Nov 2011

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burlesque farce in verse

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Handbook For An American Revolutionary

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Inspired by playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach's travels around the United States, Handbook is a raw, incendiary, and darkly comic play giving voice to a panorama of ordinary citizens in extraordinary circumstances whose battles are reshaping 21st-century America. As he blazes through a powerful spectrum of diverse Americans, Erlbach gives voice to the voiceless from coal power to white power, K Street to Bourbon St, and the prophets and profits of today's America. The twelve dynamic characters in Erlbach's play are the face of America's turbulent present and a hand to its hopeful future-the 99%.

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The Gym At Judson 243 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10034    -

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In A City Like This

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Irma

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Kevin Lamb

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Christmas Eve in Chicago. An altercation breaks out between a white professor and one of his black students - Kevin Lamb

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King George III, Part One: Join Or Die

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King George III, Part Two: Columbia Rising

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Love, Atomic

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Mine

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Neighbor In The Area, A

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A woman dealing with her past and current monsters

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Nobody

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Pigeons, Sharks, And Vixens

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When sex meets commerce, Lance and Kara struggle to find redemption, resolution, and relief in a world that has forced them to the edge.

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part of Accidental Discharge Impossible. This program of new short plays is inspired by classic print Ads that Are Actually A bit shocking. the Drafts Fest is the collaborative effort of six playwrights, six directors, And eight multifaceted Actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists And create stories tailored to the Drafts based on this year's theme, Accidental Discharge Impossible.

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the Red Room
85 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003    05 May 2011

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Representation

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Republik

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Seward, Kansas

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Sex Of the Baby

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A New York couple search for a surrogate to have their baby

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Tisch/Nyu Grad    Mar 2010

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Words

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