Matthew Freeman is a playwright and director. His play Silver Spring was the recipient of the Kesselring Prize. Recent productions include The Ask Off-Broadway and Steve Burns: Alive (co-writer, Edinburgh Fringe). Upcoming: The ENC musical (with Sean Bonnette of AJJ). 

Other plays include That Which Isn’t, When Is A Clock, The Listeners, and Why We Left Brooklyn. His work has been produced and developed at The Wild Project, The Brick, HERE Arts Center, House of Yes, FPAC/The Assemblage in Boston, St. Mark's Church, Access Theater, East 4th Street Theater, The New Ohio, and 80WSE Gallery, among many others.

His plays and monologues have been published by Samuel French, Applause, Smith & Kraus, NYTE, and Playscripts. His audio pieces, with David Greenspan, Jessi D. Hill, Moira Stone and others, have been a part of the HearNow Festival, New Dramatists Active Listening, Atlanta Fringe Radio, and released as podcasts by Theater Accident.

As a director, Freeman staged Steve Burns: Alive at Howland Culutral Center and La MaMa; his evening of short plays The Hollow (Brick Theater);The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children by Matthew Trumbull at the NY International Fringe Festival (Encore Series; Award, Overall Excellence in Solo Performance) and the Minnesota Fringe Festival; and his own adaptation of the mystery plays, Genesis, with Handcart Ensemble.

Freeman is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a New Dramatists alum, where he proudly received the Joe A. Callaway Award. He is a graduate of Emerson College and is the Artistic Director of Theater Accident.

He splits his time between Brooklyn and the Western Catskills with his wife, magical author Pam Grossman and their two feline familiars, Monday and Birthday.

You can read his Substack about Star Wars, Ahch-To Baby, here.