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Matt Lyle

MATT LYLE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Originally from East Texas, Matt Lyle is a writer, actor, and director living in Dallas, Texas. Matts plays have been produced across the U.S. His plays THE BOXER, HELLO HUMAN FEMALE, BARBECUE APOCALYPSE and BIG SCARY ANIMALS all garnered DFW Theater Critics Forum Awards for Outstanding New Play and BARBECUE APOCALYPSE was nominated for an American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award. Matt has been commissioned by Theatre Three, Dallas Theater Center and Audacity Theatre Lab. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Playwrights Center and was honored as the 2018 Distinguished Alum of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Matt Lyle's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Barbecue Apocalypse         Big Scary Animals         Boxer, The         Hello Human Female         Know-No         Raptured         Sunny And Eddy Sitting In A Tree         Too Many Crucibles
Barbecue Apocalypse

Barbecue Apocalypse
Three couples meet for a barbeque during the summer. Bitchiness and squabbles ensue leading to violence. A year later they meet again for a barbecue

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Broadway Play Publishing 2016   

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Genre:
Drama

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Further Reference:
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Big Scary Animals

Big Scary Animals
An elderly couple move to the big city to be near their grand daughter. They inadvertently move into a predominantly gay area

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Genre:
Gay drama full length

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Boxer, The

Synopsis:
Depression era. a bumbling Boxer. a lass dressed like a lad. the BOXeR is a unique silent film on-stage in the style of Chaplin and Keaton comedies. Live music, Love and Laughter gang up in this roundhouse hit from Texas.

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1st Produced:
The Connelly Theater, New York International Fringe Festival     2009

Organisations:
Bootstraps Comedy Theater

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0h 57m Comedy Clown/Mask

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Hello Human Female

Synopsis:
an internet dating site links up a thirty seven year old female virgin and a mad doctor seeking World domination

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Ochre House, Dallas, Texas     2009

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audacity Theater Lab

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Genre:
Comedy

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Know-No

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Raptured

Raptured
Mistaken identities, love triangles and lots of doors

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Broadway Play Publishing 2020   

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sunny And Eddy Sitting In A Tree

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Boy meets girl at their therapist's office

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Too Many Crucibles

Too Many Crucibles
In Salem the witch trials are going on - in a nearby village Peabody there is trouble too over the election of a new preacher

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Broadway Play Publishers 2019   

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Genre:
Drama

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