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Matt Moses

MATT MOSES

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Ross Weiner

Matt's latest play, The Cloud, is currently being developed by the Iama Theater Company in L.A. and the Slant Theater Company in NYC. His play Pamela Precious, A Balls Out Love Story was named one of the best new plays of the year by the New Haven Advocate. The Bedtrick was produced in translation at the American Theatre Festival in Santiago, Chile. It was an L. Arnold Weissberger Award nominee and a semi finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. The Emperor of Ice Cream or Thirteen Ways of Looking at Donald Rumsfeld was produced by the Hangar Theater. Daniella Uses Dirty Words was produced by the Abingdon Theater. He's currently adapting his play We Have Some Children into an opera with composer Greg Samothrakis and director Dan Rigazzi. Other plays include a musical, The Do-Over, which was seen at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and Yale Cabaret, a solo piece, "Drop Dead Matthew Moses" (Yale Cabaret), The Inconvenience of Grief and an adaptation/translation of Sophocles' Electra. Matt performs every Friday night at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater with the house improv group The Law Firm. He has an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where he received the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Scholarship and the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize. Matt is originally from the Bay Ridge and Marine Park neighborhoods of Brooklyn, NY.

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

         Bedtrick, The         Cloud, The         Daniella Uses Dirty Words         Dead New York, The         Do-Over, The         Drop Dead Matthew Moses         Electra         Emperor of Ice Cream, The, or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Donald Rumsfeld         Inconvenience of Grief, The         Pamela Precious, A Balls Out Love Story         Private Life, The         Through the Looking Glass.         We Have Some Children         Years Before, The

Bedtrick, The

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An act of trickery in the bedroom shadows the lives of a family trying to escape a cycle of revenge. The Bedtrick is a story of love, sex, violence--and fate.

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produced in translation at the American Theatre Festival in Santiago, Chile

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Cloud, The

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A mistaken-identity comedy about a couple who exchange passwords and impersonate each other online. THE CLOUD explores changing notions of privacy and intimacy in the age of social media, conjuring up a theatrical space in which all the www is a stage.

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Here Arts Center, New York     16 May 2014

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Slant Theater Company

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Daniella Uses Dirty Words

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Abingdon Theater Stage Ii, 312 W. 36th Street , Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10018-7570     2005

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Dead New York, The

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nspired by true events, THE DEAD NEW YORK tells the story of a police officer who grows disillusioned with stop-and-frisk quotas and the downgrading of major crimes. When he speaks out, hes met with forceful retaliation from a commanding officer whos intent on taking him down. The play asks, what sacrifices are we willing to make to keep the Dead New Yorkthe crime-infected city of the 70s and 80sburied?

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Do-Over, The

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Upright Citizens Brigade Theater    

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Drop Dead Matthew Moses

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Yale cabaret    

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Electra

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adaptation/translation of Sophocles Electra

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Emperor of Ice Cream, The, or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Donald Rumsfeld

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Inconvenience of Grief, The

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Pamela Precious, A Balls Out Love Story

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Two high school teachers become locked in an interneceine battle over the love of a fellow educator in this Jacobean-inspred farce that takes place over the course of single afternoon.

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Private Life, The

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written by Matt Moses, Gonzalo Rodriguez Risco And Mattie Brickman

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Through the Looking Glass.

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We Have Some Children

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Years Before, The

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commissioned and developed by The Music Theater Company in Chicago

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