Plays Written by Matthew Greene:
THOUSAND PINES
MATCH
BAD ACCENTS
SON OF MINE
GREGORIAN
GOOD TURN
Synopses:
THOUSAND PINES (3M, 3W) – Six months after a devastating school shooting, three grieving mothers prepare for their respective Thanksgiving dinner. As the different families try to process and move forward, they discover that they are bound together by more than tragedy.
MATCH (2M, 4W) – A mother will do anything to protect her daughter, even the unthinkable. As people from all walks of life cross paths with Cheryl, they begin to see what lies beneath her placid, suburban exterior and what awaits them if they get in her way.
BAD ACCENTS (4M, 4W) – What starts out as a light-hearted murder mystery dinner party among old friends quickly turns into a whodunnit in its own right, as crimes from the past resurface in deadly and outrageous ways.
SON OF MINE (4M, 1W) – Three fathers find themselves in a hospital waiting room, each awaiting potentially devastating news from the doctor and praying to a god of their own. When they realize their fates are intertwined, they are forced to come to terms with what they really believe.
GREGORIAN (1M, 4W) – Four generations of an Armenian-American family grapple with their painful past and find a hopeful way forward. As the Gregorians navigate the twentieth century, watching history repeat itself through global human rights crises, their intergenerational connections become their salvation.
GOOD TURN (6M) – A scout troop in a remote pocket of the wilderness wakes up in the middle of the night to find their scoutmaster has been stabbed to death in his tent. No one knows who to trust or who could have been so brutal…until the truth starts to come out.
Bio:
Matthew Greene is a playwright, librettist, and lyricist whose works have been seen on both coasts and a few places in between. His play Thousand Pines had its world premier at Westport Country Playhouse (directed by Austin Pendleton), and the autobiographical Good Standingplayed at Theater Row as part of the United Solo Theatre Festival. Other plays include Gregorian (Working Artists Theatre Project), Adam and Steve and the Empty Sea (Plan B Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival), #Mormoninchief (New York International Fringe Festival), Job Well Done (national finalist, American College Theatre Festival), and Bread of Affliction (Society for the Study of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature). His work has been developed at Westport Country Playhouse, the Jerome Robbins Foundation Project Springboard, LiveRead, Apples and Oranges Arts, and the Working Artists Theatre Project. In 2020, he received the Stiles + Drew Prize for a new musical in progress and is currently under commission from Westport Country Playhouse for his play Beloved Son, directed by Chay Yew. He is a proud member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and has taught theatre to people of all ages in and out of New York City.
Website: www.matthewgreenewrites.com