Matthew Freeman, Playwright

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.
— Sara Holdren, Vulture
[Freeman is] a master of electrified small talk …
— Zachary Stewart, Theatermania
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.
— Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
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.
— Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times
Think Ionesco writing for The Twilight Zone.
— Teddy Nicholas, New York Theatre Review