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Matthew Stephen Smith

MATTHEW STEPHEN SMITH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Matthew Stephen Smith is a NYC based playwright. His plays include Nicholas Maeve Marianne (2013 FringeNYC), 7 Ways to Mourn the Dead (nominated by MCC theater for a Distinguished New Play Development Grant), Co-Op (developed through MCC), Are they Edible? (with designer Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, La Mama 2013 puppet festival), Time: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts (with PPL and ThingNY, Dixon Place and The Brick), Endoftheworld Lovesong (The Flea Theater), The Bux(Finalist, National Playwrights' Conference), Four Women at the Edge of the Desert (IRT Theater), and The Burning House (Studio Maya). Member of the Dramatists Guild, Panoply Performance Laboratory, and MCC Theater's Playwrights' Coalition. He is a Southern California native with a BFA from University of Michigan and a MFA from Northwestern University where he also taught undergraduate writing courses.

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below is a list of Matthew Stephen Smith's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         7 Ways To Mourn The Dead         Daedalus/Myth         Endoftheworld Lovesong         Explanation In Three Parts         Fear of Being Eaten by Your Lover in the Dark, A         Hostage Play, The         Nicholas Maeve Marianne         Night In The Land Of Gracious Living

7 Ways To Mourn The Dead

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There is a break in the Trojan War and Priam and his court are bored. No amount of parties and drinking and illicit sex helps

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Baruch Performing Arts Theater, New York    07 Nov 2009

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MCC Theatre

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Daedalus/Myth

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Endoftheworld Lovesong

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Endoftheworld Lovesong is a new play that eerily takes place NOT too far in the future. A triple-digit heat wave has become the norm for an average summer day, the once Texas-sized collection of plastic in the ocean has doubled in mass, and the sun looks redder. It's a quiet Monday morning. In a hopelessly cramped and secluded construction office tucked below the sun-scored L.A. streets, June Ballard is having another panic attack. On the radio, a crazed host proclaims the end of civilization. In other news, the oceans belch plastic waste, wildfires blaze across the east, the Southland enters its 19th day of record-breaking heat, unemployment's shamefully high, and somewhere in the ether, two disembodied voices sing a lonesome lullaby. . . Before next Monday, June will fall helplessly in love, shaking her world to its core.
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the Flea Theater and Northwestern University

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Explanation In Three Parts

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theater company Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) and experimental music ensemble thingNY construct a vast, subjective map of ideas, a documentary about time itself. the absurdity of completely explaining the subjective histories, cultural role, and science of time is balanced with the earnest attempt to do just that. This musically-driven performance art piece features performers of radically different backgrounds working together to create a form of performance that exists simultaneously in and outside of time, expressing and describing through video, web-based durational media and an accompanying printed book that extends the performance beyond the duration of the live performance. the work is influenced by the chance-based and aleatoric modes of the music of John Cage and Gerard Grisey, the durational modes of the performance art of Tehching Hsieh and Bas Jan Ader, as well as the philosophies and science of Husserl, Einstein, William James, Heidegger, and many others.
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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    04 May 2011

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Panoply Performance Laboratory

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Fear of Being Eaten by Your Lover in the Dark, A

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Hostage Play, The

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Nicholas Maeve Marianne

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Bushwick. A cold kitchen. Three estranged friends reunite. Fueled by bourbon and excited debate they attempt to rekindle their old friendship. . . Before tomorrow they'll confront a shared desperation, fighting to save what happiness and home they have left.

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1st Produced:
Teatro Circulo, New York Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

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the Mill

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Genre:
comedy one act 85 min

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Night In The Land Of Gracious Living

Synopsis:
Four young women in the desert one is blind

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Genre:
Monolgue play

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