Awarded the 2021 Kesselring Prize
“Freeman brings more than a decade of his own experience [to] The Ask, and his achievement is not only to capture two voices with both precision and spiky humor, but also to venture on a generous exploration of two full, wildly different humanities.”
“[Freeman is] a master of electrified small talk … ”
“Matthew Freeman’s The Listeners boasts a swinging, Aleister Crowley naughtiness. It’s a Lynchian fable set in a bed-and-breakfast where time has a habit of looping back on itself. Imagine The Wicker Man sprinkled with Pinter: dark and silly, silly and dark.”
“Talk about taking a cleaver to the Cleavers. The mid-American family at the heart of Matthew Freeman’s fearless new satire, The Most Wonderful Love, is decidedly fractured when the play begins. By the time it’s over, a complete dismemberment has been performed...as savage as any slasher film.”
“Think Ionesco writing for The Twilight Zone.”